This is not what Consumer Reports says.

I can't wait to build a particle accelerator in my backyard.

As opposed to advocates of the cryptocurrency ponzi who have for the past 7-years been shilling to find suckers to buy in after of them? That is the whole reason we've had to endure unending nonsense submitted to, and posted by Slashdot about "digital gold", "hedge against inflation", "useful technology", etc.

you choose the direction of your company. Its been my theory that unless your business is commoditized your CEO should be a product person. The business may continue to be successful in the near term but over time the company will make product missteps.

Perhaps its reductive but Pichai's background is the management consultancy McKinsey, it shouldn't be surprising that he created a bureaucracy. Similarly Satya is a cloud guy and Windows is being enshitified, Ballmer completely missed smart phones along with most of the Internet.

Yea, I feel like the opportunity for mass market of headphones is largely gone

Classic audiophile nonsense, you should go watch Monty's videos https://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/A...

welcome our new robot overlords and would like to remind them as a programmer I can be helpful building more robots.

I agree with the other guy, the only reason one buys a third party controller is because its cheaper than the official one. I've never used an unofficial or to be frank even a licensed controller that works better than the official OEM one.

If your grandparents accidentally click on a threads link are they 'active users'? If someone visits once a month are they 'active'?

My assumption was that we'd see some matter devices requiring a cloud connection (over matter).

Is that a universal truth though? My impression is that the matter protocol makes devices routable.

Probably wash trading still.

Here at Apple we know you don't socialize with peasants.

Note where I mentioned "motors actively working". The software in this persons car was actively holding the car at 30 mph, if one applied a parking brake may necessitate the engine using more power but it isn't stopping.