Go fuck yourselves.

Entry for players, that is. If they can get a console into some shmoe's hands at a lower price point and then continue to gouge that mark on game subscription prices over time, that's what they're after.

Nothing to see here. Business as usual.

We took our family to Orlando to both Disneyworld and Universal Studios. It was extremely crowded, very expensive, and if you wanted to get in more than a couple of major attraction rides, you pretty much HAD to purchase the "jump the line" pass for another few hundred bucks per ticket holder. We took our elementary school aged kids and it was $4-5k for a few days for park tickets and food (not including travel and hotel expenses). Everything was egregiously expensive and the waiting around, even with the "cut the line" passes, were still fairly long.

I can't imagine how most people out there can afford the expense once you layer in the travel costs. I can only assume that many people are borrowing money to make it work. When we got home the kids said they had fun, but they didn't want to return. Whew....

Screen sharing is turned off by default. At least it is on the M5 Macbook air that I just bought my wife (she's a Mac addict....don't ask...hehe). I just checked.

That's complete bullshit. I have been using it as my daily driver for years as have a number of people I know who aren't particularly technical. Unless your jam is just computer gaming or you have an application that you MUST use that only runs on Windows, Linux will do pretty much anything Windows can without the licensing merry-go-round.

Or just ask for the hardware to be delivered without ANY operating system and spend the 5 minutes to pop in a USB thumb drive and install whatever you'd like.

Or buy a Mac.

Or build your own system from scratch.

Or.....

There's plenty of choices out there.

I agree. The person had better get explicit permission from everyone present and be prepared to remove the wearable or prepare for the consequences.

and then the noise blows over and they'll allow the free-for-all to continue again. Nothing good is going to come from having pervasive surveillance of people just going about their daily lives in their car. They've taken an inch, then a foot....the mile isn't far off. Y'all metric using folks can convert to your favourite units.

Jetson Orin is roughly 4 year old tech that's EOL now. I'm not sure how newsworthy this is. It's a graphics chip for mobile applications, not really an AI chip.

Nothing to see here....

This is at least the 2nd time they've done a retreat in China.

There has never been a level playing field there for foreign companies.

I guess I'm atypical then. I tend to get a "flagship" phone when I need one and then I keep it until support dries up. Rinse. Repeat.

I've owned both iphones and pixel phones. Usually I find the prices to be comparable. What is NOT comparable is after sales support. If you buy a brand spanking new device soon after it comes out, you'll likely get a few more years of software support with the Apple device. For the Pixel, you can probably pave over the OS and run Lineage OS on it after Google support expires, but it's on you to do all the work to get it there and if you brick it you're on your own.

Whatever they're doing on the Neo front, it's been successful. I picked up several for my kids while they were at the $599 price point. They're plenty "good enough" and at least I know Apple will support them for a few years with OS updates/patches.

The real problem is that the companies soaking up the resources are doing it with OPM. Dry up the easy money and the egregiously high leverage and the RAM hoovering will subside.

Though I have to say the schadenfreude when Larry Ellison blows through most of his capital chasing this business by the tail is going to be somewhat satisfying to see. One good market correction and the street is going to aggressively make margin calls and investors are going to be so pre-occupied avoiding being the next Leopold Aschenbrenner that the "easy money" will dry up.

Stock up on popcorn.

Never beam it aboard the ship.