Apple is participating in the creation of the AI bubble. So yes, it is Apple's fault, in part anyway. Why do people give Apple a pass on behavior they hold Microsoft accountable for?

Supported by Android 11 and later, support came in a play store update in 2025.

Yeah, but it's also trash on Windows, with Acrobat. Acrobat was never amazing but it used to work. These days it is absolute trash. Features just stop working on you mid-session. It chokes on documents which Evince can render without difficulty, and that's just displaying them. How did Adobe fuck up Acrobat so badly?

How many cash dollars, and I do mean actual cash, does Apple keep in the bank? Hint, it's literally a historically unprecedented hoard no matter how you do the calculations.

We're complaining about the prevalence of technology used to abuse us, not that the vehicle uses advanced alloys, or a CAN bus. The problem is not "technology" and that framing is either disingenuous or a clear betrayal of a lack of understanding of the issues at hand. Why do so many nerds think they're experts in every category? Some of us have worked on cars for decades and know some real things about the benefits and drawbacks of modern designs.

Somehow, a bunch of people have convinced themselves that Americans are shit because a third of us want shit, a third of us will put up with shit without even complaining, and the last third is divided between those who only complain and those who only vote. The numbers of people doing anything else are a rounding error.

Slashdotters have always discussed ramifications of technology, not only the technology itself. You just don't know anything about where you are.

When's the last time you saw a cell tower located on a ridgeline? Yeah, the tower I regularly walk by while getting my lunch has a generator, but the one that was out near my home for 3 days after the last significant quake clearly doesn't.

I live in Rio Dell, CA. When we had our last significant quake the Verizon tower went down after a few hours and was out for the extent of the outage, almost 3 days. They promised to bring in a generator to power the tower and then... just didn't bother.

News for nobody. Stuff that doesn't matter.

Have you ever swapped a door on any car?

Most people do not take care of their cars. Also I remember the last time an ICE car was on fire, 2 weeks ago when the fucking highway was closed while the fire department put out a burning Skoda. Do I sound bitter? Yep that one small fire closed the entire highway and it took me 2 hours to get home instead of the normal 35minutes.

There are on average 10 ICE vehicles on fire EVERY DAY in the USA.

That's a dumb take. Polestar has a tiny sales amount so cutting 12% of sales represents a cratering in economies of scale required to make designing and selling cars profitable. In fact the oversized Polestar 4 was specifically designed with the US market in mind and a major strategy to get them out of the financial rut they've been in the past 5ish years was a focus on the USA.

This is very much a crippling blow, though maybe not fatal (their parent company is still massive).

No thanks. Most of the "automated driving systems" are L2 ADAS safety features in modern cars that objectively make driving safer. The best outcome would be for the US to adopt EU rules and ban cars without them.

Oh except this is the USA we're talking about, they are more focused on killing pedestrians by running them down with the biggest thing possible so fat chance of that happening.

People are talking about the brand Volvo not the Volvo Group - who has nothing to do with this article as their products aren't covered by the laws in TFS.

Your post is off topic. The reality is the Volvo being discussed is identical to the Polestar being discussed. If you want to point out that Polestar isn't a Chinese car but rather a nickname for the largest star in the Ursa Major constellation you'd be equally on topic.

Likewise to your point no Rolls Royce is a brand of cars, don't confuse that with Rolls Royce Holdings - the British company.

They also sell EVs, what's your point? Though with the EX90 being built in South Carolina I'm guessing some MAGA crocodile tears were cried while screaming "jooooooobs" when making the decision. On the flip side all Polestar models were imported.

No it hasn't been, and all cell towers have battery backup already virtually everywhere including Spain. 24hours is a LONG time. We're talking up to a 100kWh battery pack at every cell tower. In many places there isn't even the space to put these.