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.

This is nothing new.

40 years ago, I had friends blowing big chunks of money they didn't have on things like new high-end stereo equipment, scuba gear and souping up their cars. They went through the same home economics classes and go the same parental advice as everyone else, but they just chose to ignore it. I'm sure the exact same thing is happening now to a similar subset of the population.

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.

In this case, it sounds like it might be a good idea to invest a couple of bucks in using certified mail with a return receipt.

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.

How exactly has a non-profit helped women get jobs in tech fields?

Just recently I ran into a woman having trouble finding coding work despite a solid background and resume, some people had suggested to her she try Women Who Code to get some connections that could help her find some job opportunities.

I had contributed to them in the past as they also held women only coding camps for teenagers, that is I think the key way you actually get more women into coding as opposed to simply juggling the few professional woman coders in a sightly different mix across existing companies.

I had kind of lost track of them though and hadn't contributed for a few years, I think the coding camps were shut down... maybe the organization just lost track of the core mission.

Lots of the Netherlands sits below sea level.

So why should we be concerned even slightly about cities subsiding when we already can easily deal with places that exist many meters below sea level?

An 18-wheeler was overkill.

Everyone knows that they should have used a station wagon.