I am sure the enshitification of the GM UX will be just fine. /s This is why any vehicles I buy CarPlay is a requirement, right up there with wheels.

Never watched Fox News when I had cable or satellite. I could not get a discount for cable/satellite to avoid paying carriage of Fox News. Same goes for sports channel rent seeking. The last straw occurred when I couldn't bundle Discovery without some sports fee. Also extra fees to carry the local over-the-air channels. Got a net tuner and Plex subscription and never looked back. Oh and the TV images are so much better for the over-the-air channels than the bit reduced Spectrum nonsense.

Could be most people like things like good wages, health insurance, autonomy and not being serfs. Right = fascism/oligarchy now. They do not care about balancing the budget, etc. Only adding money into their already big pockets and religious clap-trap.

My Buffalo, NY had two computer rooms. One with IBM1130 and one with PDP-8. Hutch Tech class of 1976 member. The 1130 replaced an IBM 1400 series on. The 1130 had 16k core, a smoking slow 1MB hard disk, plotter and of course card raeder/punch for backups. My first exposure to APL.

Seems OK for the freaking bible toting states, especially if you are non-white. I think they sane wash it as "capital punishment".

Nickel-Iron was widely used in telcos for backup. Almost indestructible. Electrolyte was a liquid lye solution, just like flooded Nickel-Cadmium batteries.

IEEE 1394 defined in 1986, standardized in 1995 by TI and Apple, ignored by Intel and others to come up with a slower inferior USB in 1996. It had high power delivery and machine to machine file copy capabilities. You could say leave it to IBM, Compaq to come up with an incompatible connector to force everyone to use. Looking at you USB-A, USB-B, mini B, micro B, other mutant Bs, and now all the USB-Cs that has it’s own set of incompatibilities. Will my USB-C cable power/charge/communicate with my device?

I suppose that if you use side loaded software and it breaks your phone, no warranty or support would be fair. Also if your phone is compromised by said software, you can’t sue them as well.

Image if the around $39M + $10M could have been used to improve the government system rather lobbied to prevent a government system. They probably also lobby to insure last years rules are different from this years as well to force you to buy another version rather than some table update.

Obviously this is some troll response. Apple Maps is mostly better than Waze/Google Maps, all which work fine with CarPlay. Apple Maps has better road info: Stop Lights, Stop Signs, Lane info for intersections with mostly enough pre-warning what lane you need to be in.

Same here. Hope you are listening GM. 2x Volt owner.

I am looking at it from an end user perspective. They see the connector as the "thing". The underlying link and physical layer stuff is another issue, some of which I am commenting on. For example I have a scanner with USB-C connector for comms and power. If I plug a USB-C to USB-C cable in, it don't work. I need to use a USB-A to USB-C power delivery type kind of cable.

Being not USB makes Lightning better! Lightning provided features long before USB, so USB is poor copy of Apple tech. Don't get me started about the debacle of USB-C, is it USB 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, USB4.x, ? lanes, PD support, with some random set of features implemented. At least you don't have to plug USB-C connector in 3 time with 180 degree rotations to get it fit.

The joys of making WINSOCK to work on Windows 95 didn’t have TCP/IP pre-installed. I worked at Xerox in ‘80s and we were on the early pre-DNS days of host files. Dial-up UUCP and other nets existed, NYSERNET for example in those days. Xerox had their own backbone for Webster to PARC running the old 3 MB Ethernet via Nova Gateways and Altos before Star was a thing using XNS.

Proto Postscript, Interpress was Xerox tech. Before that the was Press, which was a resolution independent output format that worked on different output resolutions. I was not a language per-se like Interprets/Postscript.