Perhaps, but you don't need a financial crisis to explain the fall of Xbox.

This handheld not Microsoft hardware, though, it's an Asus.

"Don't Be Evil" - Google 30 years ago

"Be Evil" - Google now.

I recall a comment by a programmer saying: "I asked AI to refactor my code. Now it's clean, elegant, and nothing works."

Yet, consider this -- consoles used to get price cuts quickly. The SNES launched for $199, but the next year it was selling for $149, and then $99. Meaning, most people paid much less than launch price. On the other hand, the Switch never got a price cut, so in practice it was more expensive; expect the same for the Switch 2.

Heard it's more like a 1050Ti.

But is there a reason to, other than you want to use a DE that doesn't support Wayland?

And what a tragic mistake that was.

The idea is that you can boost a new product by tying it to an established brand. But it can also cause confusion and devalue the brand. You could say, for example, the PlayStation Portable is that done right, and the Xperia Play (aka "PlayStation Phone") is that done wrong.

IMHO the fact that we have to, under criminal law, to testify against ourself is a violation of our Constitutional Rights, to not incriminate ourselves.

I'm sure there is some weird legal theory that the government uses to get around this.

Any connection between genii and jinn is dubious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This pluralization makes no sense as "genie" comes from Arabic, not Latin.

Things of value are usually rare. The amount of "entertainment" is ever increasing, and thus becoming cheaper and cheaper. Creating MORE isn't going to help.

And with AI starting to be used in the Creation process, that will lower the costs of making it, and start making it widely available to more people in the creation process.

This ends in a death spiral of more and more "entertainment" with less and less perceived value, chasing diminishing returns. I suspect that places like OF will make quick end once AI girls are able to do everything by prompts on the fly for their "users".

Look at Venezuela and North Korea. They were driven to poverty by mad rulers but the people still can't get rid of them.

The hype is so dead that they'd be better off cancelling it now.