This article made me wonder, do any other storage providers not bill for unauthorized access attempts? That seems like a pretty big potential billing hazard.

I can see why providers might charge for that, it is taking up resources, but I would also hope providers would do some work to help drop unauthorized requests in a way that would not bill you, or maybe some very minimal fee.

At the very least a good lesson to monitor an S3 bucket access logs as soon as you create one to make sure nothing else is pointing at it! And maybe to use some really complex bucket naming, or at least reverse domain format, to eliminate that possibility.

The alarm clock has always been an exception to each and every rule regarding sounds.

Another way it's an exception is that it is allowed to play sounds at times other apps are not - like if you have sleep mode on, or have turned on the mute switch!

And, so do you still have your VP?

Of course I still have my VP, I use it daily for work and other things. It's been awesome, and was especially good on a recent international flight.

I still find it incredibly useful to have a normalized large working environment wherever I am, I've had to travel a lot recently (some work, some vacation) and no matter where I go I have a full computing setup easily on hand.

I cannot express how much more vastly useful the AVP is day to day than any Quest unit. Quest is for play, AVP is for work.

there's no one starving for power and Germany isn't the only country with a reliable power grid that's increasingly green.

Yes, Germany's "reliable" green power grid is so "reliable" that multiple heavy industries are shutting down.

They are among the first to fall. But not the last.

It's a well known measure.

No, it WAS a well known measure.

The entire G7 for example, appears to have largely forgotten this simple and obvious truth.

A nice gesture, especially considering it will utterly wreck several first world economies, but utterly useless in the face of China and India increase coal use alone.

China realized long any the only thing that truly advances a civilization is abundant power.

All details it would be nice if the article had!

They imply it was more nationalism than product quality but really offer no proof.

Anyone reading this, please please do not finance a car's worth of money on some new gadget you're not even sure if you have a use for.

I agree with this sentiment generally, but two corrections specifically:

1) what kind of car are you getting for $3500 these days?

2) Apple does offer 0% financing for the Vision Pro same as for other devices, the term is one year for the VP specifically which means a payment around $360 or so a month over a year.

If you are going to get one that is a great deal to be able to make use of your own money for a year that would have been immediately spent otherwise.

Also Apple offers a generous 14 day no questions return policy so you can back out if you realize the device is not for you.

So don't be afraid to use credit, but use it wisely and as you say, consider if what you are buying makes sense for you.

I think it's such a key part of the overall article it really should have been brought into the summary as well - the reason for the drop is not necessarily anything Samsung has done, but because there is a trend of Chinese people preferring to buy Chinese made products - so the top spot has been taken by Huawei.

Some random Apple employee that told this Apple Hater is wrong - if they even exist.

Apple Vision Pro returns are at 1%.

Also if you have been following the rumors for a while, you will be scratching your head at production supposedly being cut down to 400k units from 800k... when long ago it was projected that the supply of 4k displays used by the AVP was only around 400-500k...

Which leads you to wonder if purchase and supply have just been a constant and it's the rumors t hat are all over the place. As usual.

But it's not like the leather is going to be thrown away and Apple is pulling cowskin out of dumps.

Wrong

The global leather industry creates four billion pounds of scrap leather waste every year. Currently, thatâ(TM)s mainly sent to landfills or incinerated

There's a reason that there is a saying that goes "Wears like leather." Leather is an excellent material to make durable stuff out of if it can't be made out of metal or needs some give.

Even if you can't bring yourself to use real leather from any animal (a waste Native Americans would chide you for given how much leather is produced as a bi-product from raising cattle for food), there are plenty go fake leathers that feel great and wear really well!

The "fine woven" stuff was crazy bad. I upgraded my phone this year and waited to look at the cases in person, and wanted no part of what I could tell was a terrible material just by touching it. You could tell just from sample cases in the store it would not wear well...

Generally though for me, third party cases have been simply better for a number of years now, and first party Apple cases have just not been as good. But they could at least get back to making soemthing that felt and looked premium.

Because it costs trillions of dollars to retrofit a city?

Source? Billions at worst. Like I said, this is a solved problem, and places like Amsterdam have solved this for way less than "Trillions".

How much more inefficient is it? Because on my budget smartphone I can easily last two days with heavy use. So now I will only get 1.5 days?

If you play a long AV1 wide with CPU only decoding you are more than likely to get only two HOURS instead of days.

Vastly less useful than Teslas also driverless miles driven in MANY other states and conditions than Waymo drives in.

Tesla has a far broader range of conditions to train with.