There's quite a bit of hyperbole and assumption in what you're saying - even from enthusiasts getting Qwen model running locally "90%" of frontier is a bold statement given the capabilities of actual frontier models. I don't think you're pricing in demand - would demand decrease from cheaper models or increase? You seem to imply that we're at a saturation point from demand, but I feel this couldn't be further from the truth. There's a lot of integration points and a lot of huge benefits a 100x model could produce in terms of software use cases - we aren't really seeing peak usage or anywhere near peak usage there. The tools are too expensive right now for everyone to maximize use. If the price crashes I think you just see more usage taking up the slack.

I'm right there with you though that there are going to be winners and losers, but certainly not on the timescale you're predicting and certainly not with some of the big HW players.

Ok, lets break this down for you. The previous poster was complaining that they went to California twice and said it was a third world slum. I told them to stay out of areas like Tahoe, Mendicino, Carmel and Yosemite which are not generally known as third world slums and directed them to places that obviously could be slummy like an overpass or the afore mentioned walk of fame, which IS shitty and THAT is the joke. And now that I've explained it, its that much funnier! /S

Sounds like a feature not a bug for some.

God damn people really do need the "/s". Am I in the wrong? No...no...they're the ones that need to change!

Let me guess? Mendicino and Lake Tahoe right? Or Carmel and Yosemite? See there's your problem, you went to the shittiest places. I suggest one of the many interstate interchanges or perhaps the Hollywood walk of fame. That's the "real" California

Waymo operates just fine in San Francisco which has plenty of very narrow tight streets (2 way with 1 lane) with bad visibility and lots of extra shitty drivers, double parkers etc. It goes around these just fine, and when it gets legit stuck on something (road closed off by cops or something) it can dial home to have an operator give instructions on what it should do next.

Games haven't run off disc for a while, they install to the drive. Even HDD loading speeds are intolerable in a lot of games, forget about optical.

Discs have only been a distribution mechanism now for 2+ generations. You don't run the game off the disc it just installs it to the HD. (Then layers in a 12 GB patch anyways). Two sets of people benefit: those that want to resell the title and those that don't want the gigantic download. The no download crew is pretty much lost as you generally need "day 0" patch to make the game anything but a buggy mess, so this is 100% about resale.

I can think of a few uses, such as being able to read a document or something on the go. My phone is too small, and I don't want to bring a laptop or tablet with me. But I think a six inch screen is too small still, so yeah, not sure what people are using this version for.

It doesn't matter what they say. Whenever the Apple version launches, that will be when a company like Apple was brave enough to launch such an innovative device that no one else ever thought to do. Truly they are the inventive minds of our time, and we should be so lucky to get an iFold of our own, on sale now for $3500.

"Its legal when the president gets his taste."

Basically a reductive version of the drivel you were posting, and adds just as much. Dismissing what everyone else can see as obvious advancements as "nothing new" is fundamentally idiotic. Don't act like someone else rubbing your nose in it is suddenly offensive when you started pissing on everything in the first place.

Programmable graphing calculators were the same - needed to hook them into at computer to root them and get programs on it but once you did you had a fairly capable processor + display for the time.

Gotta clean up the streets! Its the next logical step. After that its feeding all the surplus "material" into the soylent hoppers.

I don't think this is "steak" quality and a long way from it. Think ultra processed stuff like frozen meatballs and chicken nuggets.