Flip side - AI code generation makes developing small ‘throw away’ tools for niche problems trivial. There are plenty of niche tasks for which there are no existing software tools. Writing your own via vibe coding - i did this myself for a temporal disk space calculation tool. In an hour. Including walking across the street to grab a coffee, and checking it in to github. Previously this would have been a few hours of searching the internet before writing something myself with less features and more bugs in 3-4x the time.

It makes it economical to solve problems in code.

Like it or not there are legacy industry specific hardware adapters out there for ISA. That's why it was quite late to be removed from motherboards.

yup, most "investors" these days are tech traders, line go up = good, line go down = bad, buy/sell based on stock price movements.

The USAF would like to have a word with their QF-4 Phantom drones.

Exactly this. Unless you have some bespoke high end media production or engineering apps, the platform is mostly irrelevant now. it's almost all web.

Some of the more tech knowledgeable are relying on smartphones and tablets too, if they fit their needs. The days of needing a desktop or laptop for general purpose tasks are pretty much over. Unless you're an IT guy, gamer or need some high end engineering or media production apps - you could probably get by with a tablet with far less PC janitor work.

10nm shipping in volume in 2016, etc wake me up when it ships and actually posts performance numbers.

This. Iâ(TM)d pay $5 Aussie for this. It the current pricing is hilarious.

You can get 1TB and larger SD cards now.

iPhone manages it, because the memory/resource management isn’t a dumpster fire

macOS and iOS.

Conveniently forgets macOS

They can put this in the App Store if people can sue them for inaccuracies in their app.