Apple is doing the meme.

It might not come out, since the whole value proposition hinged on the $7,500 tax credit that the Trump administration killed. It doesn't even have an infotainment system, and Slate's answer of "put your phone in a vent holder and use that" is something you do in a beater from Craigslist, not a nearly $30k brand new EV.

If you're only going to keep a car for 5 years, reliability probably isn't going to be an issue regardless of the manufacturer.

On the other hand, if you're the type to keep a car and drive it until the wheels fall off, with a Chinese vehicle, that time might come sooner than you'd expect.

"and where blue collar workers get to retire on a full pension before white collar workers."

Yes, if only I could enjoy the life of a blue collar factor worker in China. Why can't I work 12 hour shifts 6 days a week?!

Differently than common belief, the EV market in Europe is dominated by domestic companies like Volkswagen, Stellantis and Renault, with Tesla and Hyundai/Kia thrown in. Chinese manufactures recently reached a new high with 4.5 percent EV market share. And EV itself is about 25% of total market share. There is not much experience with Chinese EVs so far.

Heck, the story is still on the main page: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X In 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion AI isn't likely to go away, but the current level of spending isn't sustainable. Guess what's going to happen when the purse strings start getting tightened? Yep, those RAM orders might start going *poof*. Irrational exuberance is a well-known phenomenon, and anybody who paid attention during the dot-com boom knows exactly where this is heading.

The other big hole in your theory that this is somehow a result of US-based politics is that the US is not a major player when it comes to having the factories that physically produce RAM chips. We certainly "own" a lot of the aspects of the IP relating to the technology, but when it comes to some place like China just saying "screw it, we'll flood the market with cheap RAM just because we can", there's really nothing the US could realistically do to stop them, other than just hoping that their processes aren't up to snuff. Even that approach only works for so long - China has already become a leader in battery technology, for example.

The RAM suppliers aren't good at predicting demand. In 2023 there was an oversupply that tanked their margins. Today there's a "supply crisis". Ramping up now would guarantee another oversupply in 3 more years. It's as simple as that.

I know for you politics is like the square hole that everything fits into, but the RAM shortage is just capitalism being capitalism (and you probably know the famous saying that it's the worst system except for everything else we've tried). It's been explained to death - the RAM manufacturers are worried that if they build more capacity, the AI bubble could pop and then they'd be left holding the bag.

I'm not even sure how you'd fix this situation. Some types of businesses are just extremely expensive to start, which is also why there aren't like 50 different competitors to Disney World.

The key is flattery and presentation though. Giving Trump a gold trophy and pledging support goes 10x farther than the equivalent in crypto. Tim Cook knew this

The elites hate labor shortages. They love labor surpluses.

No, but HPE is. HPE does not sell printer ink.

They probably do. That's the whole point of this odd neither fish nor fowl phone. It's for people who'd, for whatever crazy reason don't want a smartphone, but also don't want to be locked out of all the parts of modern society that have become dependent upon smartphone apps (for better or worse).

In my neck of the woods, you need a smartphone just to summon what passes here for public transportation. I'm totally not kidding.

There's no minimum size requirement for "datacenter". My Raspberry Pi is a datacenter if I say it is.

The Trump T1 phone is just a gilded HTC U24 Pro. The controversial aspects of it are entirely related to its association with the president, and that it was originally claimed that it would be US-made. As far as its actual smartphone functionality goes though, it is an entirely unremarkable mid-range Android phone.

This Commodore phone, on the other hand, is a far more niche product with some substantial limitations compared against what the market typically expects.

IMHO, it just feels more douchey to me when someone goes all old man yells at cloud because things change but they're stubbornly stuck in the past. Reminds me of this skit.

Personally, I like just ordering my food on my smartphone and it just magically appears on a counter for me to grab without having to deal with a human.