I don't expect Netflix pricing to stay the same.

But the main reason this is happening is there are too many streaming services for them all to be viable. This isn't a merger of equals. HBO Max isn't sustainable right now. Not enough people are willing to pay their asking price to keep it going.

You merge the services, cut your operating costs, and raise Netflix prices a little.

And maybe we see Netflix take advantage of Warner's distribution systems and get more Netflix content in theaters and on DVD/Bluray.

5090 isn't a bubble.That's just a low volume, high margin niche product for people with a lot of money.

Did you get one of the high end iPads?

I've got the 2018 base model, and it hasn't received any software updates in 2 years now. We got to the point of getting a new one about a year ago because it was too sluggish, and the limited RAM was causing problems. We still keep it around for simple tasks, but not for anything remotely demanding.

Sounds like you're not from the US.

Most people get their phones from their service provider. And the major providers offer a free phone upgrade every 2 or 3 years if you trade in your old one. It's structured as paying for the phone in monthly installments, and they give you a credit each month to cover the installment. They give you the option of paying upfront for the phone, but you don't get the credits that way, so it's almost always a terrible idea to do.

They are very, very clear about what the full price of the phone is. The catch in all of this is if you cancel your service before the term is up, you lose the remaining credits and have to pay the remaining balance.

The result of this is upgrading more frequently than the 2 or 3 year cycle is very expensive. You can keep your phone longer than the cycle if you really want to, but it rarely makes sense to because there usually isn't any benefit to turning down the upgrade offer.

I suspect you have a different definition of "cheap phone" than the parent poster.

Your logic seems reasonable if you're looking at a $400-$500 Android phone instead of an $800 iPhone or Galaxy.

But you can get $30 Android phones. I would not expect those phones to last for very long, both because the tech quickly becomes obsolete, and due to physical durability.

Also worth noting that most people getting a flagship phone are getting it as part of their service plan, usually on a 3 year upgrade cycle. As a result, upgrading every 3 years is by far the most common cycle, as upgrading at any other frequency doesn't really make sense.

What's the market for a good integrated GPU ?

AMD is clearly capable of making a fairly high end integrated GPU. The PS5 is roughly a GTX 2070 level GPU integrated with a Ryzen CPU.

But to make that perform well, you need a custom memory architecture with faster memory bus for the GPU. And you need an enormous cooler. The PS5 is basically a tiny motherboard with a massive heatsink attached to it. Xbox Series X isn't much different - they went heavier on fans and airflow, less on the heatsink.

If you go a little better on integrated GPU performance, who really cares? If you go significantly better, the cooling situation becomes complicated, and you're almost always going to be better off just using standard discrete parts where the cooling is a solved problem.

The whole "dropping kids off in the dark" thing is a dumb argument because that's going to happen to some people no matter which time zone you use.

The fuss wasn't that it happened - it was that it happened to a different group of people than it used to. People don't like change, and complained loudly that they were now the ones inconvenienced.

Everyone already has the choice to set their own hours for their business.

But most people need some sort of alignment between school hours and work hours. If you need to commute via mass transit, you need to align with transport. If you work in the financial industry, your hours are generally based off the stock market's hours. There's lots and lots of factors that essentially force large chunks of people to align their schedules.

We ended up in the time zone situation we have because it's the easiest way to get things reasonably aligned.

The market doesn't even react when he says tariffs. Did the first time, then started ignoring him once he walked it back.

NES controllers had amazing dpads. Those worked perfectly. A lot of NES games are really rough to play on modern controllers because they were designed around the really high quality dpad.

Ergonomics weren't great because the controller was a box, but it worked really well. You just had a bad one.

I dunno dude, you had to manually load the rumble motor into your controller. Ever other controller with rumble didn't need to load.

It's across a river, but not directly across.

It's equivalent to going from the suburbs in northern NJ to Manhattan. A viable but unpleasant commute. The kind of commute that lots of people do, but find absolutely miserable.

Except they don't circulate. They're so worthless now that people don't carry them around and use them. People get change, then stick it in a jar somewhere and it just sits there. Maybe eventually when the jar fills up, they take it to the bank to deposit. Or maybe they start another jar.

We make a ton of pennies so that cashiers can make change, and that change doesn't get used. So we make more pennies so they can make change again.

Other countries solved this problem by creating laws on how to round change so that you don't need pennies.

TNG got a big budget increase for season 3, and I think some changes to the production staff. That's when it all clicked. Season 2 was also rough because there was a writer's strike, which resulted in a bunch of rushed episodes.

DS9 production staff argued over episodic stories vs long term arc. After season 2, the people that preferred strictly episodic stories left to create Voyager. The people that preferred long term arcs took over. And that's when DS9 started to thrive.

I think everyone involved hated that. There were rumors the show might get cancelled, so the showrunner did that basically gambling that the network wouldn't cancel the show on a crazy cliffhanger.

It worked and got them another season. And they changed showrunners, so the previous one didn't have to worry about it. The new showrunner didn't like the story and just tried to wrap it up quick.