....I imagine the Temu Relations Department makes up 5100 of those employees.

same here. my old apple watch was very very old and when I upgraded there is hardly any new features .....basically exactly the same.
I should have just tried to replace the battery.
you were smarter than me though, you did your research before and knew it would be a forced upgrade.

Every day I am looking at the liquid glass feature and I can't believe this even gets a mention. all the hype over transparency!
No wonder people are not upgrading. I remember long ago when iOS updates brought significant change and everyone got excited and installed immediately. Now it just slows my phone down.

I held off on the iOS 26 as long as I could because its I find the whole phone slows each upgrade. I bought a new apple watch December and was forced to upgrade to iOS 26 to use it. They got me the usual way.

also not dissimilar from The Simpsons predicting the future.

Oh, I would call that "publicly accessible" but I see your point.

agree.
Also my cell phone number I use for WhatApps is not publicly available, not listed so how does that fit into their thinking?

how does a conversion error like this happen? is AI transcribing an audio clip?

well you are better of than me. I could only understand the article title and I re-read the summary twice! :)

This was so well said and described.
I have noticed I have changed how I approach the workplace.
its interesting because I gave up all social media in somewhere around 2016 but I realize now I am still on the ship of other peoples additions.

A quick search says it is real money and 48% of players are aged 18-24.
I had not idea of this situation and this is blowing my mind.

This reminds me of the movie WALL-E where are the humans never leave their la-z-boy type chair and watch videos on VR while scoffing food.

^this.
every day it is "tung tung sahur" in our house

hold tight, stay strong. fads will pass.

This is not my words but ChatGPT generated:
"Tim Cook made a terrible decision at Apple - one of the worst! Once a great company, now losing its edge because of bad leadership. Sad to see what's happening to an American icon. People are tired of overpriced phones and bad ideas"

Quick funny story from this weekend:
on a pacific north west ferry we watched as an owners car alarm was going off due to the vibrations. He could not use his phone to enter the car nor turn off the alarm (cell service?)
I assume he did not have a physical key either as it was never witnessed by us.
after a lengthy phone call with someone (car vendor?) he was able to turn the alarm off.