Regardless of whether it is Samsung's or Apple's device, the "VR 3D experience" novelty wears off fast, while wearing a headset remains way to uncomfortable to be endured for as many hours as people like to play video games.

Indeed, managers already forgot that "proof of concept", "alpha version", "minimum viable product" are not synonyms or "mature product, ready to sell!".

Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if their "Crypto Bank" comes with an "App" containing a root-kit and/or other forms of malware. A company installing root-kits on their customer's computers once will do it again.

Apple wants you to pay extra for the other half of the battery they cut.

The divide between rapidly brain-atrophied LLM abusers and old men yelling at clouds (because they want high-quality, hand-optimized software development back) seems all too familiar to me, and I don't see a resolution anytime soon. One might argue it should be possible to use LLMs just as yet another tool to help with some things, without being abused for other things. But it seems between vibe-coders and experienced programmers there is no significant middle ground to speak of.

Why would there be anyone to talk to computers? Microphones are not much use for bots, a wireless connection module is all they need. Advice would probably be to get out of that puny human interface device market, and start making weapons for the killer drones to wipe those pesky competitors for energy from the planet.

... by the authorities if only domestic criminals had made one Billion by sending annoying texts full of lies to everyone, right? After all, that is what the whole "advertisement industry" is about.

Apple being Apple thought hard how to circumvent EU regulation to continue scamming their believers, and of course came up with yet another proprietary USB power delivery extension called "AVS", that is supported only by overpriced devices. See here for example the "Apple exclusive" variant of an Anker power supply, which is worse than the original variant in every aspect except for supporting the Apple proprietary extension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I for one would not ever want an "automated" update. I want the beta-testing to be done before the thing is sold to me. And if there should ever be good reason to install an "update", it must never be somebody else's decision whether and when to update my thing.

... for so many reasons beyond just its abhorrent price. Keeping sensitive data away from the epicenter of data brokers and espionage. Avoiding extortion and sabotage. Closing floodgates on adverts and malware. Allowing to get interoperability with software from other sources, where the customer wants it, not where one monopolist allows it. I for one would be happy to work on FOSS solutions if my local government started an earnest attempt to introduce it - instead of just mentioning the possibility from time to time to keep the bribes coming.

Isn't that about the sum grannies are sued for by "copyright holders" when their grandchild shared some movie files using their DSL connection?

Is that you, Elon? Did you mix Ambien with red wine, again?

It would have been hilariously simple for Microsoft to show their "commitment" to consoles... by simply not making their existing one redundant and instead selling a mid-generation update. But they did not, and all their PR-weasel-words mean exactly nothing. They are just milking the remaining fan base until they'll finally admit it's over and switch off the servers.

Exactly my thought, too. This is way too close to the plot of "The Lift" (1983).

It is much more the plot of The Lift that they followed, while in "The Matrix" humans were harvested for energy, not for cognitive functions.