No, Jobs was a moron who didn't even use a cell phone. Apple's devices improved greatly when Jobs was gone. Their software, though, has gotten worse and worse and there's no innovation. They make nice processors so far and they take image quality seriously. Apple has improved technically since Jobs left.
"...most devices contain in-built digitisers to work with a pen..."
Most as in very few. If you limit yourself to devices designed to do that, then sure, but desktops aren't, notebooks are evolutions of desktops not tablets.
It's funny how so many people have forgotten how computers are actually used. "Diverse UI elements appear in different areas of the screen". LOL. Were we born yesterday?
"Touch your screen to draw, drag or provide singular location based inputs."
Or use the techniques that have been used for decades. No one is inventing anything here. A notebook with a touch screen is a tablet. Apple decided notebooks and tablets were different and they were proven right. Now they are wrong, just like Microsoft...and you.
Because the screen is two feet away? The touchpad allows scrolling without large hand movements, something you'd know if you were a computer user.
"And I liked PowerPC, I was just shocked Intel could keep up. "
LOL PowerPC was explicitly created to only match Intel performance, but do so at lower cost with smaller dies. Intel keeping up was ensured from the start and PowerPC was never really developed beyond IBM's reference designs.
Thinking that PowerPC was somehow better than Intel is pure Apple brainwashing. It was Steve Jobs that lied about PowerPC, not IBM.
My employer announced that AI costs will be billed back to departments. Token use (almost entirely among developers) was cut in half without affecting productivity, and perhaps even enhancing productivity because they had to think a bit about the best use of what they had instead of trying random things.
It's a scheme to convince people like the OP that it provides value when it doesn't, a scheme to sell to people like ShanghaiBill who are easily exploited due to their greed and entitlement. Down the road, it might be worthwhile if it doesn't degrade your future battery technologies.
For most it's a feature worth paying nothing for. Build it into EVSEs for free.
"Getting a second useful job out of the most expensive part of an EV makes sense. "
No it doesn't. First, it's not a "second useful job" very often, if ever, and not for many buyers, plus it decreases the lifetime of the "most expensive part of an EV". It's an option, it doesn't make sense for many people, perhaps any when you consider the long term cost.
"a reasonably priced way to keep the fridge and lights running is a pretty appealing extra..."
For many that's a rare problem. For others there are alternative solutions that don't wear your vehicle out.
"Making the hardware affordable is a good start; the electricity savings still have to survive the subscription bill."
For the subset that could receive any benefit at all. I get no value out of such management, my electric is flat rate. Plus I don't have a service interruption even once a year.
Just because it can be done doesn't mean it's "useful".
The Apple fanboys by the first version, and every version, of everything made by Apple. Only the noobs don't know this.
The question with this device is why you'd want one even if it was flawless. Overwhelmingly unappealing unless you're 7 and want the world's most expensive gameboy without the games.
straw man central. You'd think bots wouldn't be so stupid.
The iPhone was a copy of existing smartphones. Apple copies it, then there's a relentless propaganda campaign, then Apple invented it.
But the F700 was not the original smartphone and no one even remembers it. Microsoft, in fact, made devices like that before Samsung or Apple. Nokia did as well. There was an entire market for smartphones prior to the iPhone.
Apple did do multi-touch, though, although only two touches and almost nothing exploited it. And Apple bought that from another company. Their touch keyboard, though, was a big improvement. Too bad they didn't even support applications, their web browser was worst in the industry AND they didn't do MMS. Steve Jobs didn't even use a cell phone, Apple didn't even know what texting was. Email was what everyone wanted, that was literally the Jobs claim. Never forget, Jobs thought email was the solution for phones, no one wanted text. He was some genius, and GREAT to his kids...
MTBF is not a calculation, although it may be estimated using one.
"Wear-out failures aren't always different from infant mortality failures, though."
That are completely different issues, always different.
"If the defect is caused by a design flaw in a component resulting in a structural weak point, that same weak point could fail after one use or a thousand, and it could just be a ticking time bomb. Someone could get very unlucky and find one that is slightly weaker, and it could break much sooner."
That would be reflected in a low MTBF rather than the example "MTBF of 600000 hours".
"Case in point..."
Do you really understand what that means? Because it seems clear you don't.
What a moronic post.
Applying for HR? Can't lose with that post!
I can't find a single redeeming word in this post. Who ever wanted to replace themselves with a computer? And what "traditional logic-solving algorithms" are being referred to here?
I guess the oldest
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
