I was pointing to the vacuousness of the claim.

I've already run an LLM natively on my phone. That did "not require a data center at all", and also did not require DS.

I realize that half is the focus of the article, but it misses a huge piece of the perniciousness.

They demand exclusivity with venues.

Which means you either hand over all your booking and ticket sales (for a fee, of course) to them, or not be able to book any Ticketmaster artists. If you haven't considered the question, you may not recognize that artist-choice and ticketing are two of the biggest levers a club owner has to manage their business. Most of the other costs of business are pretty inflexible - about your only other cost-control options are fucking over your workers and watering the beer.

This does a couple things - clubs become more like farmers - they get to soak up all the risk with none of the control. It also gives TM more control over artists - I've seen less info on how TM squeezes them, but don't think that isn't there. If an artist doesn't like their terms, they don't get to play their venues.

And of course they wet their beak at every single touch point along the way.

Slight pushback: It should also dispense chilled water and ice. Now that I have a fridge that does that, I'd cut my pinky finger off before I bought one that didn't. I have a buddy whose fridge also shits out large ice spheres for whiskey and such, that was also pretty bad-ass but certainly not worth having to deal with "smart" features.

I'm glad you clarified, I read it as "halved". Thought that sounded kind of extreme.

What makes you think a company known for over priced accessories with high margins would in any way preserve features and build quality when attempting a low level budget device?

In fact we know what it will look like, Apple has done this before with other products such as the iPhone 5C, a device that said less "high build quality" and more "look we can make cheap plastic crap too". The iPhone 5c was a flop to the point they never released individual sales numbers, and proceeded to cancel the device lineup. It was no better than any cheap Android phone.

There's no reason to believe a company that is well know for high profit margins and huge markups will magically produce some high end device at a budget price point. Nothing at all points towards this other than irrational hopes and dreams.

Only because they can't. The problem is not that they don't want to, it's that they don't understand. The end result is someone buys something budget, quickly find it was never their use case in the first place, and then buy the better device not knowing why it was better, but hey it runs good and the old device is now e-waste.

Education would be a better result than contributing to a product that is perpetuating a product waste cycle.

Funny you mention corps. I work for a multinational and what our IT does is buy the base level as an appliance and then manually upgrade user RAM on an as needs / as approved basis. Multitasking rarely requires a higher end computer, but always requires more available RAM. Corps definitely play with this stuff.

Yes, and one solution proposed was to make DST voluntary for businesses, which I pointed out was nonsense, as opening times are already voluntary for businesses, nevertheless they all sychronized out of necessity.

In the UK, which (I think that's like consumer reports in the US) has basic high performing models for £30, so 40 bucks?

With that said, it'll get near daily use and probably last a decade. Even at $200, that's 2c per slice toasted. Though apparently often the expensive toasters aren't that good.

Unfortunately this either or mentality makes people dismiss you as a lunatic. It's the same as the "you're the product" comment that very much ignores the complexity of the business relationship.

Hint: If adding features for the end user wasn't a core component of smart devices, then they would not be of any benefit to the user, meaning the users won't buy them, meaning they can't be a benefit for building an advertising platform.

Using the words Always and Never are intellectually regressive.

DeepSeek has proven that it can use far less computing power

I've seen where they've asserted that, where has it been proven?

if DeepSeek' s claims are true,

Ah.

some AI queries may not require a data center at all

And here's how you falsify the claim. When can I expect to see that 200B param model on my phone?

I'd bet money that number has very little to do with the actual accounting.

If I were running the their team, I would absolutely fuck with OAI and other competitors like this. They can't discount it completely - this is still early days, there almost certainly are undiscovered efficiency tricks out there.

But it forces them to spend time and money chasing those based on whatever is in DS's paper. Messes with their OODA loop, if you think about things that way.

You can do that with any modern phone but people don't do it....

Kiiiinda I guess, but somehow everything is shit.

Yep. It basically just does the job. Straightforward, no strange takes on interaction, plays well with non XFCE things, low resource, decently configurable, unopinionated and works decently out of the box.