Don't fall for it.

Do people not understand how hard that stuff is, or what the typical markup is on physical goods? 40% would be considered a horrible markup, 30% would just be asking for your business to die. These digital markets are a boon to developers, and much better than the alternative.

Agreed. If it becomes part of a standard, you are paid for your contribution in exchange to relinquishing any rights to it. The standards organization, like IEEE or ISO, may require a small fee to verify compliance with the standard, but should be it. I've been saying this all the way back to the EDGE days, when Apple was sued for some fringe patent related to enhanced data rates over EDGE, which were part of the standard that had been adopted for the US, and AT&T in particular.

This sounds like those sites, like we see in "The Intern", will see you put something in your cart and left. And instead of just sending you an annoying email to let you know you may have forgotten to finish the purchase, it will just complete it for you, even if you were just doing some comparison shopping. The FTC (and other agencies), better put the kibosh on this ASAP, before it totally kills online shopping.

The US Military's own DECA Commissaries have been using digital price tags for nearly 20 years. As have places like Best Buy, Micro Center, etc. There are multiple positive reasons for having them, including updating prices when sales start or new deliveries at the same time the inventory system is updated. No more will you run into someone needing a price-check, because what is on the shelf and what is at the till are wrong, as they will be tied together. This is a nothing burger, brought up by some of the most out-of-touch members of our nation, elected politicians.

Selling whom? All ChatGPT interactions are transparent, opt-in, and with identifiable data obfuscated. Stop listening to Elon.

How? ChatGPT use is entirely optional and opt-in, and identifiable data is not transferred to OpenAI's servers. 90% of the system is entirely with Apple's own LLM, which isn't related to OpenAI, and processed on device or publicly verifiable servers.

Why does no one understand what is actually going on, and instead act that ChatGPT is baked into the OS at this point, it isn't. Apple has its own LLM (Apple Intelligence), which is processes on device, or on their servers, using open source and publicly verifiable code. It is only when a request is outside of the scope of Apple's LLM, that it asks to share with ChatGPT. There is no "OS integration", everything is opt-in, and everything is obfuscated to the best of their ability to only share non-identifiable data.

Processing payments in a pain. You have to calculate taxes, the appropriate taxes per state, country, county, and city; plus their own local taxes, and pay them all appropriately. Small developers are sticking with Apple, because they handle all of that for them. It is like politicians and judges haven't actually had real jobs, or had to deal with running a business.... wait?

There is a whole conspiracy that the "elite" want people to eat bugs and "fake" meat so they can control the content of their food, and make them incapable of independent thought. Similar to the low-protein gruel they feed to Homer in the cult episode of "The Simpsons".

This is a false metric. The number of children being born does not reflect on fertility, it reflects on procreation. More people are choosing not to procreate or delay having children because of economic factors. This isn't a problem like in some countries where a growing number of people are either uninterested in sex, or sterile. This is literally people wanting to be able to have a decent life, struggling to do that, and not wanting to introduce another person to the struggle.

Looks more like United has some major issues with their maintenance facilities and processes. All of these planes have been in service for some time, and these are all issues that occur due to deferred maintenance, poor maintenance, or pilot error... nothing to do with the manufacturer.

Absolutely. I don't have a physics degree, but know enough through learning about engineering, and learning on my own that the real future is with nuclear. The amount of radiation being discussed is so minute, that it won't even register. The rise in background radiation around the plant has been reported as not much more then a few hours on an airplane aggregated over a year. This isn't Chernobyl, nor anything like it, and the fear mongering needs to stop. That isn't to say that there aren't better designs that could have been used, or that it was the best location; but all of these couch physicists are no better than the COVID deniers, and may actually be worse, because they are perpetuating the continual use of coal and gas, which according to most researchers, appears to be more damaging, over a longer time period and over a greater number of people than have been affected by nuclear byproducts in history.

Pentium and Celeron need to be fully retired, for all products. And change the numbering to go 1-9. With the low-end chips being 1-3, good 4 & 5, Consumer 6-8, and Gamer/Enthusiast at 9. It would be really easy to understand for consumers, higher number = better.

Grimace is a tastebud, not a "purple milkshake blob"