NSA pressured NIST to include compromised parts into elliptical curve encryption.

It allowed for a private key (presumably held by the NSA) to greatly reduce the difficulty of breaking things using that part of the suite.

Though Apple started getting relevancy again with the iMac and iPod of the late 90s. It was stuck with OS9 which made Windows 98SE and especially Windows 2000 look great (Windows ME not so much).

OSX came out 25 years and 4 days ago (I just checked), I think your timeline is optimistic by a couple of years when the whole software ecosystem (except quark xpress) got moved over.

Early on the best example of OSX native software was MS Office and not much else.

Yes.

Using the kernel developed by Next was a huge deal. It doesn't change the fact that 25 users ago Apple was an absolute mess (thus the need to purchase Nexr for the OS (and CEO).

Os9 was an absolute outdated disaster.

25 years ago Apple was still OS9

It was constant crashes that required reboots.

OSX came out almost exactly 25 years ago and within 18 months (as software moved to it) changed the whole story.

It's super sad.

I purchased my Vizio TV because it's only smart feature was that it had a built in Chromecast.

No apps, no ads, it just showed up on my phone apps to let me put them on the TV.

Then after 18 months a huge update and it became annoying just like every other TV.

Cars already do this. I'm not sure why they're acting like it's new.

My 2006 Honda lets me know when it's time for service starting a few thousand miles early.

Exploding in the launcher is bad.

But if it's a matter of 1% vs 0.1% failing mod trip. Or even 10% vs 0.1% failing mod trip this is a game changer.

I'm picturing something as hard to intercept as the better Russian misiles that delivers a payload similar to shaheed for the price closer to a shaheed.

Such a weapon would be a game changer even if it isn't some type of unstoppable munition.

The only feature you list I'm remotely interested in is the mirroring to the dash.

But there's no reason Android auto/apple car play can't do that without deeper integration.

WRT to the other controls. Buttons please. I can afford an extra $1,000 or so to have cruise and climate control be buttons rather than voice and a screen.

I use voice to control my home HVAC, but a car is a small controlled space and buttons are far superior for that.

And yet Ukraine is having some success with it's slow af cruise missiles that cost 5x as much (significantly larger payload I assume too).

At $99k these are starting tondrop towards high end one way drone prices.

If I were a country with small GDP I'd love to be able 40x the cost of interception by having the other side blow a patriot.

At such a low cost these don't need to be unstoppable to be useful, just requiring top tier anti air vs interceptor drones makes them a huge game changer.

I thought no this is the correct response.

The people that whippee up something quick for a tech demo failed, but in the long run artists will be able to properly use it to make things look better.

Amen!

The the to play games is through mateix style displays showing you the math or pixel perfect sprites.

Journalists use it for summaries (and sometikes don't double check sources even). Both Nate Silver and Tech Dirt blogs talk about their use and use paid versions.

A lot of programmers use it to do tedium too.

These two user classes pay less than it costs to provide them service, but do get significant value from it.

I use it to fix some of the tedium of using pandas, and also to generate pivot tables in Excel.

I think when they AI companies start focusing on their cost rather than improved benchmarks we'll see them start to make gross profit at least.

I get at least as many local ads streaming as I did on broadcast network.

Not super local (a lot of PA elections when I live in Delaware, just like broadcast), but in my metro area.

I would think they should be able to auction ads even more locally with streaming though. Similar to how Google does it.

Later cable channels were created then with ads though, correct?

Like Comedy Centeal was never a pay channel (that I'm aware of) and I think started on cable.

The so called extended basic (in my area) channels always had ads.

They were charging $60 for 200/6 internet.

If I wanted to get a reasonable work from home 20mbps up I had to pay $150 for 800/20.

I switched to TMobile and it definitely sucked (carrier level NAT and not IPv6 passthrough to get around it on IPv6), but getting 75/50 internet for $50/month was a huge win for work.

Verizon came through selling 300/300 fiber for $50/month and now Comcast is offering 400/100 for the same price to compete.

I was amazed at the huge difference, but also that before competition Comcast was offering nothing reasonable upstream. I don't know how people were able to work from home with it.