It's good practice to have second sources.

For most suppliers, GM isn't their only customer.

Indicator bulbs: cover glass or plastic, different types of plastic for housing, perhaps some fasteners, adhesives, copper wire, insulation, electrical connectors, incandescent light bulb or semiconductor LED, either of which is like 5 suppliers or more for subcomponents and tooling.

Yeah your indicator light supply chain probably sprouts tentacles in 10 or 15 directions.

For some, it looks like other places they might put it. Be more inclusive.

You are right about that. As well, they only released them in certain markets where they figured out the demographics. In the world at large, they'd not be so successful. We live in a world where a few people think the iSock is a good idea. Probably the same demographic that believe the new Jaguar commercial people are cool. I suppose if they think the iSock is cool and want to spend the money they can. I suspect they might also have problems with financial savvy, but that's another story.

Do you think? Do you think that Android ownera are all Mensa members or Illuminati?

The iPhone pocket was for sale in very limited locations, picked for demographics. Deciding Apple users are a separate species is kind of prejudiced.

Let's see, there are many of us, like myself, who are on Apple products for a number of reasons

MacOS is UNIX. I'm UNIX. So I'm going to have a UNIX computer. I spend hella much time in Terminal.

The phones and tablets and computers all integrate to an extent that is is impressive. No, Windows and Android don't, not as well.

Family member integration is excellent ApplePlay is much better than AndroidPlay.

Aside from the orange abomination phone, and the stupid iSock, the products are well designed, and tasteful.

So there are many reasons to own Apple products. Yes, some people are in it for some kind of status. Just like some people are into Android as a reaction to those Apple users who they claim are universally stupid status seekers.

I guess that makes sense, but the wheeled vehicle isn't suited for that at all. In that case they'd have been better off just making a drone-in-a-box with convenient mounting points on the box.

"They have absolutely exceeded our estimated market demand, and for that we apologise."

*turns to marketing guy and whispers* "Fire whomever only produced 8 of these, and make sure we make 8 more."

Huh? Or maybe a follow up story on one we mocked only 2 days ago is the perfect Slashdot interest story. I mean even if Slashdot were 100% non-profit and took no advertising dollars I would have expected to read about this here.

Doubt it. These "socks" are ultimately a knitted loop which will be during use looped around all sorts of things, shoulders, handbags, etc. It is far easier to snatch a phone from someone's hand than it is to snatch a bag that is has a strap connected to something. Also being fabric they aren't stiff they would be harder to pickpocket than say an open handbag.

That said I see a rise of knife assisted theft in the future. Going up behind someone and quickly using a knife to cut through straps. It's already a very common action in many parts of the world.

This isn't luxury. It's guilt indoctrination. The invocation of God saying you should be miserable because there are other people worse off than you.

How? If she's a true Christian no one would vote for her. Too religious crazy for a Democrat and not racist piece of shit enough for MAGA (Republicans don't exist anymore, no point calling them that).

Much less random. LLMs by their nature can't generate random numbers because their output is based on trained data. Actually given the number of numbers in a powerball draw I guarantee you one of those numbers was 42. Asked to generate a random number between 0 and 100 the number 42 comes up 10% of the time. That's 10x more frequently than truly random.

It never ceases to amaze how religion makes billions of people feel incredible guilt for getting wealth while inherently hording wealth itself.

"God to test me" - sorry if it's not intended this way but it sounds very much like you believe your life is only worthy if it is spent in a continuous struggle. If so that is fucked up.

Just because some people want to put their penis into everything doesn't mean everything looks like a vagina.

Because the first thing I'm told is the most likely correct thing.

This isn't likely to end the conspiracy theories any time soon. There will still be claims the moon is a dragon egg or made of Wensleydale cheese. Will landing on the moon in the future end the conspiracy theories that we didn't put men on the moon in the 1960s and 1970s?