Biggest launch doesn't mean much. That doesn't say they sold the most. Could mean they spent the most marketing on it. What we do know is that nearly instantly they were HEAVILY discounting it. That's not a sign of strong sales. This is the fastest any Battlefield game as ever gone on sale.

This means schools can save $100 by going with the lower storage option and they'll still be able to lockdown these machines. Touch ID and Secure Enclave just gives the user options like Apple Pay, and additional protections from an administrator accessing their data. Yes, an administrator could lock it down so they can't access such functionality, but then the user also loses access to such also.

The average user doesn't connect a drive to their machine to backup. The purpose of this machine has gone a mile over your head. These people need nothing more than the free iCloud backup and that's just fine.

It's a limitation of the A18 processor. It supports one port at USB3 speeds. Be real, 99.9% of people using this thing have no need for even a single USB3 port. At no point during their ownership will they need to plug in anything other than the charger to this thing.

Apple just released a new $3499 monitor this week and a $4800 laptop, they're still clearly in belief that the high-end market exists too.

It is not a subscription. The one and only option available on the new MacBook Neo is $100 to double storage from a 256GB SSD to 512GB SSD and adds Touch ID. This is something many schools DON'T want, as it means storing student information they cannot access. You see the same on Chromebooks, where they're offered with and without similar.

Anthropic is the one who signed with the US government. They're trying to do what they can to keep the contract without totally removing safeguards they've built the entire platform on. They're doing everything in their power to keep the government paying their bills and help enable Hegseth, without giving him full control.

He financed it because he makes millions from YouTube, a platform owned by one of the biggest companies in the world. He has a net worth of $35 million from YouTube money. His money comes from Google and you're going on about how he's independent. Hilarious.

He spent 15 years building an audience of more than 38 million subscribers on YouTube. That's as sucked in as you can get to the system. He is very much a large part of the system you think he should be raging against.

This is about making attention-grabbing claims that get them press (as it's done here). These predictions don't have to come true because no one is ever going to hold him to it. It doesn't impact their stock price if that date comes and goes without happening. But it does get people to pay attention (as everyone in this thread is) and talk about Microsoft and AI, which is the entire intention. If he said it'd be in 10-15 years, no one will pay attention. That's too far away to care. But by saying it's really soon, he's gotten the media and our attention, putting Microsoft right there in the conversation.

He's a YouTuber. He only got there because he's part of the system.

If you're selling them off anyways, it doesn't matter that they kill the value while doing so. And be real, those using those exchanges don't know how to transfer off the exchange and then sell them. If they did they wouldn't be using the exchange in the first place.

That's correct. Bitcoin transactions are too slow and expensive, so exchanges don't actually execute them all or truly move them among wallets. They just keep track of where the various amounts belongs and can move it as needed within their own system, then pay it out when requested. Much like your bank doesn't physically move a pile of money from one account to another, they simply change their ledger as of where to move it.

Not quite. In these Bitcoin exchanges, you don't really truly control your wallet. The exchange does. They have full access and control of your wallet. This allows them to automate transfers. In reality, you don't actually possess the bitcoin, they do. So they can simply reverse the transaction.

Much like your money in your bank isn't truly in your control, it's under the banks control. They can move things around on their ledger and if they make a mistake they can reverse it.

Now, if this wasn't an exchange and instead you were talking about people who self-manage their wallet and the bitcoin had been transferred to them, then no, they wouldn't have been able to reverse the transaction. Just like if someone had handed over the actual cash to someone, they wouldn't be able to get it back.

Frankly, I don't care if the next guy. Lifetime subscriptions haven't shown to increase vehicle value, such as those who had old XM accounts tied to their vehicles which were lifetime. Additionally, most features like such don't impact the value of a vehicle with or without them.

And it could be great for the used buyer. If they live in Florida, no need to get charged extra for a feature you'd never use, if you believe such a feature actually impacts pricing (which it typically doesn't).