Google kneecaped alternative app stores where Apple doesn't allow alternative app stores. TFA says Google paid app developers and phone makers to hinder alternative app stores.

What is the first moved advantage for AI companies to train their own models?

If I accept your argument that making work indexable makes that work fair game for including in LLMs... then the LLMs also fall into the same category. It's relatively easy to index an existing LLM and use that to train a "new" extremely similar LLM. The hundreds of billions spent curating these LLMs seem like a boondoggle for the investors. I think a couple more DeepSeek type events will see the massive money pulled out of training models.

While I see little value in companies training models, I do see opportunity in creating systems to run models. All the current server-based LLMs will be able to run locally in the next couple years and the first companies to enable local low-latency hundred-billion-parameter LLMs will have a true first mover advantage.

Considering most of companies making models are disregarding copyright to create them, what advantage would being "first" have? The first mover can't claim copyright. The good model would be used to train another nearly identical model fairly quickly by a competitor even if only allowed to be run on their own servers.

I see server-based AI as having a very time-boxed appeal; local hardware is handling things better and better and buying LLM as a cloud service seems like a huge boondoggle from a latency and cost perspective.

What prevented you from installing what? I get you hate Apple... but seems you are just confused as the current version of Photoshop is still supported on every 2015 Mac(Photoshop 2025 works on MacOS10.12 released in 2021 which all 2015 Macs are compatible with). https://helpx.adobe.com/photos...

Maybe you couldn't figure out how to install system updates?

It's not even an Adobe thing... Photoshop 2025 still works on MacOS Monterey which includes support for all Macs released in 2015. https://helpx.adobe.com/photos...

You expect to get a decade of OS support from on Dell?

Windows 12 is likely to ship this year.

Windows 11 seems like it will be the ultimate short-lived OS adventure. Microsoft managed to not support their own premium laptop they started shipping 4 years before releasing their latest OS... https://answers.microsoft.com/...

As much as I hate Trump; manufacturing in the US is fairly straightforward and I don’t know why many seemingly sane people think it’s not. The US still has a lot of suppliers, just not as many as south east asia. Automating the crap out of everything manufactured SHOULD be done everywhere; sweatshop labor is a HUGE problem for humanity.

Having too much manufacturing in unfriendly countries is a BiG problem. If done sensibly it will probably cost 25% - 50% more to make things domestically.

The way Trump is going about this is idiotic mostly because it makes it impossible for businesses to plan.

This is par for the course for M$ hardware for the last 20 years. I bought M$’s first optical mouse and it was great until they decided to kill off their driver support for it. The first “Explorer” mouse came with support for MacOS8 and worked better than pretty much any mouse before it. ~3years later Microsoft added a bunch of DRM crap to their mice because knock offs were appearing and decided to kill off driver support for the original mice(the driver just dropped support for their original Mouse sometime around MacOS9.6 I think). I believe they did offer me like 1/3 off a new mouse, but I just paid for a driver that let me enable the extra buttons without their special MacOS driver and dealt with that I couldn’t tweak the mouse acceleration as well as before.

Microsoft’s initial hardware is nice, but then their software and bean counters get in the way and torpedo any good will that a customer might have had.

Yes, it's plagiarism that's too big to fail

Being successful without being stressed out. . . what a disease. . .

Back then artists earned a much larger cut... Now with streaming it is only middle-men earning any money... https://rocknheavy.net/the-mus...

Even though this doesn't yet apply to gaming consoles those huge marketplaces will start making plans for when it does... Apple is also making plans to make its marketplace conform to whatever is sheltering gaming consoles.

Consumers better buckle up as "credits" will be required to be purchased and won't transfer in logical ways.

https://www.epicgames.com/help...

I think the person who said Xi was "clever" because he managed to actually get himself appointed for life. I think that's the main difference between Trump and Xi.

It's part of Isreal's Project Gospel

Here is a longer news article about Microsoft's involvement in picking targets in Gaza. https://apnews.com/article/isr...

Cryptocurrency massively centralizes the information about all transactions.

This is broadly true about all current workable digital currencies. Every cryptocurrency system needs a public ledger to limit how much fraud happens, but bad actors will use the log of transactions against people.