"Internet Explorer is an integrated part of Windows"

Google should be broken up into separate companies.

In comparison, in yesterday's front page, Toyota sold in 9 months less than what BYD sold in one month.

That is how far BYD and Tesla are leaving everyone else in the dust. Germany and Japan are in deep trouble.

This looks more like pie-in-the-sky announcement to capture attention, than any serious attempt at innovation. Looks like Apple management has no vision and no idea where to take the company, and this is just throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks.

If Apple had a vision of an "Apple Home", they would have revived the Airport line as the first step in customer's home. Then, rather than the unrealistic laundry folding robot, they would release a set of more usable, finely tuned, home appliances, like coffee machines, lighting and aircon switches, curtain motors, roomba-like floor cleaning bots, etc, and then have the Airport as their nexus with the Home app on iPhone as control interface. Add an IR light in the Airport to control the TV. That could be something.

no longer rely on the Sun to provide light and gauge the time of day. Rather, the entire country following the same single timezone to start working at the same time makes everything simpler and more efficient.

Only agrarian societies that mainly operates in isolation without access to street lights and accurate clocks need to adjust their daily work schedule according to the season of the year.

Apple has been coasting along with what Jobs left in the pipeline. Now it is completely exhausted, Apple became just like Microsoft.

I used iPhone since 3G and moved onto the Mac platform soon after, it is now time to move to another platform before Apple's ecosystem turn into complete shit.

Your post would be much shorter if you listed the places that still use DST instead. LOL

so they keep making UI changes for the sake of doing something to justify their existence.

They wasted testing efforts on UI changes that could have used for fixing bugs and improving performance instead. This is an organisational problem of having the wrong talent mix in the team, and management that lacks vision and sense of responsibility to make corrections.

The same way after a theft or robbery happened. The theives got richer.

Be careful when you claim AI is an existential threat to humans.

Do you know what people and countries are justified to do against existential threats? They are justified to destroy these threats.

Are these AI companies saying that Russia and China (and every human beings on Earth) are totally justified to bomb these AI companies and their datacenters to a crater to stop them from destroying all humans?

The Internet is a real thing and stayed with us, doesn't mean the Dotcom Boom back in 2000 wasn't a bubble. I doubt the current profits of all internet companies can justify the stock prices 26 years ago, even assuming those companies back in 2000 all survived to this day.

The current "investment" into AI absolutely dwarfed the Dotcom Bubble, there is no way the future profits of AI companies can justify their current valuations. We definitely has a bubble right now, and it is just a matter of time it bursts.

Is it?

This is called Online-to-Offline (O2O), I heard that Japan have this to perfection, e.g. you register for an event on their website, they email you a QR code, you would think you should this QR code on your phone to enter the event? Nope, you need to print out the email and hand in the physical paper with the printed QR code to enter.

Not to mention entering data into a spreadsheet then print it out to fax to the recipient.

I think US banks have a lot to learn from the Japanese, LOL.

Not just the rehired ones, EVERYONE in the company will be hoarding critical information and making it inaccessible to AI if they have any sense.

I'm guessing not a state actor. They already have enough other backdoors that Microsoft already put in for them, and plaintext is just too obvious even for them.
My bet is that this is just one more example in the already giant collection demonstrating Microsoft's utter incompetence around good engineering, robust security, and properly testing products before releasing them.