I'm not saying I love subscriptions, but in general charging a subscription for the internet/AI features with an ongoing cost at least makes sense. The part that overly annoys me is that features that aren't internet connected are being restricted as well.

Because permanent access to an expensive online resource should be free forever?

You may want it, but it really isn't a sustainable business model.

This seems like a perfect example of what RMS calls treacherous computing. There is absolutely no reason for the device to turn off a feature after three hours, except that the manufacturer has programmed it to. You buy a device, but you don't control it. It doesn't do what you want or what's best for you. It does what's best for someone else, even though it's actively harmful to you, the owner of the device.

Treacherous indeed.

At about $200 dollars more than most other ear buds, you're just paying upfront for the features. Different payment model, but Apple didn't get to the market cap that it has today without having people pay more than their share.

Brought to by the sane pricing company that sold a $1000 monitor stand.

So Apple badly needs a genuine low-end tablet. In my opinion as a stockholder, they've needed one for a really long time.

I expect SystemD was originally created because someone looked at Apple's LaunchD and decided they wanted a GPL-compatible alternative. But it certainly has metastiz... I mean, expanded a lot since then.

Being that its a mac, Apples Pages and Numbers apps are surprisingly functional software and I havent found many Doc or XLS files it cant open and work with.

Obv not going to be great for folks who use the more powerful features of office. But I *believe* they are free.

And yeah Libreoffice is reasonably functional too, even if it does feel a little arcane at times.

It's a great speech. Here it is in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Wozniak is wrong. We live in a time which punishes non-conformity through jobs and social standing. It's bad advice for the majority of graduates. For every Amelia Earhart, there are ten cat lady Janes. Most people want to believe they're unique while they read and write the same social media and get the same tattoos.

Our current systems are overwhelmingly unsustainable. Maintaining the status quo means ensuring our collective demise.

("Lemme tellya a story about Eve & the REAL Apple 1" is supposed to be the title. Slashdot's UI let me put in the whole thing, then cut it off.)

The summary left out his best line. Something like:

"Our engineers figured out how to create a brain. It takes 9 months."

Woz truly is one of the greats. And I am going to leave this here: the $2 bill story: https://www.coinbooks.org/esyl...

This guy is a class act. It's no wonder he had "less success". The people who most people praise are really not good people.

Better local on your phone than in a data center.

"Siri should finally be able to understand more personal context, have on screen awareness, and be able to take action in apps for you. This'll finally be made possible thanks to Apple's new partnership with Google, where Apple will be using Gemini-diffused models hosted on Private Cloud Compute to power Siri"

So, basically Apple is marketing existing tools as Apple and Siri? The good thing about selling AI is that most consumers don't understand what's happening underneath the chatbot interface, so Apple can claim to be making AI innovations, and some people will believe it.