Really isn't. I haven't seen cursive anywhere but on documents in a museum at any point in my life. That includes signatures, which are more likely to be a squiggle than anything resembling actual cursive. There is zero point to mandatory instruction on it anymore (if there ever was- the idea that it was a faster way of writing is backed by 0 proof. And even if it was, the ease of reading script more than cancels out those speed gains).

So profits go to developers not the market operator (or consumers). That's a greater distribution of the wealth generated, which sounds like a good thing to me. I'd imagine the total number of people employed by app developers far exceeds the number of Apple employees, so in some sense the money is (in theory at least) going to more consumers, just not necessarily consumers of iOS apps.

Fair, but in the business world of people who buy that type of software, being the official authors of WordPress does give them cachet. The Automatic.CSS name was absolutely picked to piggyback off it.

Not just possibly, but absolutely valid. This is exactly the kind of thing trademarks exist to prevent. They aren't claiming the word "automatic", they're claiming that naming a framework that's meant to work with their product (WordPress) a name that differs from their own by only 1 letter, particularly such a non-obvious difference (many people won't notice the existence of an extra 't') is meant to cause confusion an think it's an official part of their offerings. Because it is. If the other company doesn't change the name they will be destroyed in court. And frankly they'll deserve it. Whoever chose that name was either a total idiot with no concept of the law, or a scammer who meant to prey on Autmattic's good name.

The idea is that it's always on your face and hands free, and due to the location of the display you don't need to look down- it overlays your normal field of vision with additional information (that's the entire point of AR). But yes, other than overlaying your actual field of vision there's nothing it could do that a phone couldn't.

I'm more curious how the display works. I had Google Goggles. The display was nearly impossible to see and gave me a headache going crosseyed trying. If the hardware can overlay well, and be easy to see, someone will write the software for it eventually. If it can't, then no amount of software will work.

Really the glasses itself should be dumb. Put all the smarts in a smartphone app with a plugin architecture. Have it voice controlled where you say a keyword then parse your next sentence for a command. Send the video to the phone for processing via BT, and let the app do whatever it needs to do, and individual plugins send overlays up. That's enough to get a lot of useful stuff out of it.

I suspect people perceive raising children is hard and scary and expensive and stressful, the rewards being less tangible and easily dismissed as parental delusion.

I also think there has been an increasing infantilisation of adulthood since Gen X (people playing video games and watching Marvel movies in their forties) which makes people less willing to give up personal pastimes to take on the responsibilities of family.

Contraception, abortion, and now online porn and an apparently decreasing interest in actual sex amongst the newer generations would also all lead to fewer unplanned babies.

In other words you can offer me all the money and support you want, but if I just don't see myself as wanting to, or being able to, look after another human being and be a role model, it's not going to work.

What do I watch when I need a break from youtube?

If you tap in the word, that's a bug, you probably typoed the last letter. If you Swype it in, that's intended behavior- you're undoing your last action either way (1 Swype vs 1 tap). Swype behaved the same way,

Apparently punctuation in texts means anger to teenagers.

I've read speculation that the reason the iPhone Air exists is because they're figuring out how to make thin pieces for the eventual foldable.

Nice, I recall it from an Arthur C Clarke book - not sure which one though.

If you don't have a back-up then it's not that important.

For balance... I'm always looking for something huge that isn't a flagship Pro Ultra XL Plus megabucks model, because I'm old and the bigger the screen the more easily I can read it.

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.