If they can't see workers working, then work isn't happening. Doesn't matter that work isn't happening when they're watching, it just *feels* like work is happening when everyone is toiling away in their densely packed open plan office where we have to send a third of the office on an extended lunch break every time we think the fire marshall is coming around because occupancy.

Buy they can make an 11-inch ipad and sell it for $350. Are you really suggesting that they can't put that into a clamshell form factor for $600?

I live in semi-rural eastern Tennessee and our schools have 1:1 laptop policies with district provided and managed equipment. What school district out there is requiring parents to buy devices like that in this day and age?

I mean, Thunderbolt in phones isn't a thing, but the rest? iPhone 17's SSD is 256GB which is the same size as our standard corporate laptops (and without the 100GB of Windows bloat) so claiming "SSD is too small" is an odd claim to make. If you're docked to external peripherals, "screen too small, shitty on screen keyboard" is similarly a strange complaint. "Wrong OS" is only applicable if you have some specific application stack you need to run. If it's just "I sent email and push spreadsheets around" then ios and android are totally fine.

There is a very large swath of office type workers who "dock your phone" would work fine for.

Including that nitwit Kevin at Worst Buy that convinced you to buy the TV and was already fired for smoking pot in the stock room.

Is that Sam Altman and buds get to pocket $99,706,000 while the Chinese developers don't get that luxury.

I don't care about a touchscreen, but if it folded over and took pen input, I'd be a big fan.

There were more divisions of AOL just a few years back, but those have all been spun off into separate companies, so this is a ridiculous amount of money for a very narrow business line.

The Algorith has made sure I see the same video three separate times made by three separate people... the best way to air fry french fries... and the trick is that there are no shortcuts. You literally boil them before air frying, taking more time than just slicing them and tossing them in oil.

Remember when that was a thing? Everyone wanted to be a software architect?

I don't think it means what you think it means.

I like still having one or two USB-A ports on my laptop, but I can't say I've ever been annoyed by having to "lug around" a USB hub (with a gigabit ethernet interface) in my laptop bag. It weighs around an ounce.

I also think the article complaining about shit like mice, keyboards, and headsets is a bit out there, since any of this crap connected to my laptop is connected via bluetooth which has been around over a quarter of a century and has been ubiquitous in laptops for at least 15 years.

I agree that the claim is eye-roll inducing, but you could have at least read the next sentence before replying with the exact thing that it references.

I can no longer sit back and allow...communist infiltraion...communist indoctrination...communist subversion...and the international communist conspiracy...to sap and impurify...all of our precious bodily fluids.

As I said, that's decidedly possible, and I agree that knowing who is actually doing useful work is definitely more important that knowing that you have bloat in the first place. Taking a chainsaw to the org is probably not going to have a positive outcome.