And Macworld ranked Apple's 50 most influential people. (Their top five?)
5. Tony Fadell (iPhone co-creator/"father of the iPod")
4. Sir Jony Ive
3. Steve Wozniak
2. Tim Cook
1. Steve Jobs
As a computer neanderthal I found Robin Williams' "The Mac is Not a Typewriter" to be a breakthrough for people approaching computers as an everyday tool and not the magical box that one should worship and fear. One can't name everyone, but...
All the AI co's need to monetize.
This, or it's actually, as the party winds down and you see what your apartment looks like, the AI market seeing just how many *real* customers there might be. Re-think build-out, modify budgets, lock down you IP as if had real value. Potempkin market. It's just a herd of cattle raging along and at some point a single crow will dip in and whisper 'You know this trail goes to the packing plant, don't you?"
Ryan Gossling causes to set my expectations on Underwhelming.
Did you calibrate against "Project Hail Barbie"?
Turns out I haven't been able to find any of his other books locally, which surprised me.
"House"
When software can't be freely shared and hardware not freely purchasable, the whole ecosystem fails.
Please...
took a look around, see which way the winds blow
Decided to stop believing anyone who uses the word "community".
Our economy doesn't work without it
Correct. That is why they still refuse to teach simple personal finance in Middle School level Pub Ed.
Using the numbers above, if Meta had the same pre-tax profit of $60B now but was using the 3 year depreciation schedule they used in 2020 vs the current 5.5 year, then instead of depreciation being $13B it'd be $23.8B, meanding they'd lose nearly almost $11B in recorded profits, just from a calculation. So in essence this boosts their stock price by making them look more profitable than they are.
So, it the law lets them do that then allow them their $11B, then have the EPA & IRS clock them for $11B for the nation to process and bury their e-waste. Do this to all of them. It's a race and when the bubble bursts only a couple will be left standing to service demand a fourth or less of what they are predicting. It's all ego; the money is how they keep track of who's winning.
"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying." -- Nikita Khrushchev
