don't give them ideas!

I guess they would say there were a lot of iphone like products that flopped before the iphone. But no, the iphone is obviously useful, the smart speaker is just obviously annoying.

Now I do see the possibility of great smartspeakers someday in the future but they would need to

A: be fun to talk to instead of grating (OpenAI has a long, long way to go with this)
B: know you very well without it being creepy (probably by having a local ai running in a box in your home)
C: And maybe tailor their personality to one that fits with yours to the point where you can develop a disturbing & unhealthy friendship-like relationship.

Otherwise it will always just feel like talking to a corporate goon that will blandly read wikipedia articles to you.

I can kinda see what they're thinking:

"we could make it a phone app but we want to sell a physical object, and if it was just a thing with a screen it might as well be an app, so we'll make it a speaker, which could also be an app, but is sorta more divorced from the phone I guess. HEY get off our backs we don't have any new ideas, we just need to keep building the possibility we may become a huge apple-like company by saying we're developing this device WHICH WILL BE REVOLUTIONARY. Also old people don't know how to use AI -or phones really- but they sure as hell know how to yell at smart speakers!"

We could have been working for the last decade or 3 to make this a great country to have and raise children in but nah, we decided to have the most expensive healthcare system in the world (by far), no provisions for childcare for workers, no maturnity leave laws, no social safty net that would make having children less risky and very expensive housing.

Instead we were politically focused on getting rid of immigrants, which we'll eventually need to import more of because we don't have any young people because we were too focused on getting rid of immigrants to make life stable & happy enough for anyone to have babies.

I feel like Zuckerberg must personally dispise facebook, because its his only real success and is just a sad place where old people endless discuss politics and share shitty hardwarming ai memes. You can kinda tell when you log in to fb - its been just squeezed for ad cash and enshittified to the max, they don't care about it at all, they want to move on, but they can't because they suck.

I mean I'm not going to be hanging out with anyone wearing smart glasses anyway. That's an automatic trip to my permanent shit list.

If everyone starts wearing them then that doesn't make it ok, fuck everyone in that case. Just because foot-binding was popular in China 200 years ago didn't make it ok either.

Its weird. I'm pretty sure the games they've been making have been profitable. I guess they think "why not triple the profit by making the games with 1/2 as many people!"

"it would actually be useful to have a good secure way to verify to my bank for example that I'm actually the person accessing my banking account"

We have one. Its called passwords with 2 factor identification. It works and has for years and decades.

Is it perfect? No. Is the overly complicated and privacy invasive system that people are proposing likely to be better? No.

They're basically a memestock whose value went up 1000% last year for no particular reason. Unlike many memestocks the value of the shares hasn't decreased much since then, down only 50%. They are doing the usual "we're going to transform this lazy business of real estate with innovation and tech including tolkenizing everything on the blockchain and completely take over and be the next amazon!"

I don't think most people in the world, even americans, would agree that just because you are operating some absurdly expensive moon base gives you the right to claim the entire moon. If we did try saying that I would expect China to just ignore us, which would be the reasonable thing to do. Of course its also probably in China's best interests to let us burn even more of our money on stupid nonsense like a moon race where only one side is actually racing while the other side is taking over world trade and technological development.

Is... is this just a way to give musk & bezos even more goverment money?

I'm beginning to get a little suspicious.

Micron is american. Micron announced it will exit the consumer market in February 2026 and focus on enterprise markets including data centers and artificial intelligence.

US: Lets have an exciting space race! We're already been there and we've been trying to go back for like 20 years, so we're way ahead, but whatever, lets do it! Come ON! I'll bet you're going to race us like crazy. Oh BOY I'm excited.

China: Uh. I'm busy taking over all the parts of the world economy you don't seem to want to do anymore. Huh. So you're just not making ram for regular consumers anymore? Fine, I'll build another bunch of factories.

US: We want this to be more dramatic. Come on, it was so much fun beating the russians in the 1960s! GOD WE'RE IN SO MUCH DEBT IT TINGLES!

China:

US: HELLO? ARE YOU THERE? Ok, I'm going to start the race in 3... 2... 1... GOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.......!

The chinese are getting into the game I belive. They're behind for now but it might not be long until they are taking a big chunk of the market. That's why Seagate should build new factories and sell the memory at a competitive price, but going for temporary gains over long term ones is the american way.

Yeah, I think you're right. If we're heading towards a recession high hardware prices + low income would probably hurt consoles and just all AAA games a lot. Probably the biggest winner would be phone games - everyone has a phone and has to have one. Then pc games that everyone can run like stardew valley.
On the other hand, a lot of people are going to be spending a lot on hardware just to play GTA 6. If you compare cruises and going to Disney every year and hanging out in high-end bars - buying a fancy computer or new console is actually still pretty cheap entertainment - so if people cut out those really high expenses they might just go to consoles.