Why stop at just picking on Silicon Valley, and by extension California's produce.
What about the car & tractor manufacturers?
The dealership lock in that's been steadily evolving over the years, as technology has become more prevalent in vehicles, needs reining in.
Too hot for the politicians to touch I think. Easier to stick it to a Democratic state than the likes of John Deere.
You're going to get e-waste regardlessly, thats just the nature of consumer computing technology and smart phones as they rapidly improve & update..
To claim it prevents tons of e-waste is just spin.
Vehicles on the other hand have a significantly longer life span and therefore repair and life extension is more applicable.

Saw same news article over on Macrumors.
I read the MR comments to gauge what the ill informed opinions are and I come here for more tech savvy ones.
So it was a nice surprise to see long time MR poster Gengar post this in the MR article comments:

I write and publish my own apps for a living, I've been doing this for about 12 years now.
Over these years I've come to realise that App user's don't really understand who it is that they purchased from.
At least the ones who've gotten in touch and asked for a refund.
They think it is my company and I can issue a refund (different with Google Play, I can because Google lets me. With Apple there's no touching their payment system).

So reading this I get why Apple is keen to emphasise who it is that a user would be making the purchase from.
I can see the potential nightmare for both users and Apple when payment support is needed and there is a 3rd party in the mix.
It's still going to happen because, again from my own experience, it doesn't matter the warnings or text you put in front of their eye balls there's going to be many who don't pay attention.
Of course Apple doesn't want to lose their 15 or 30% cut but there's also the end-to-end user experience and their brand reputation at stake here too which is much more valuable.

I personally use google search a whole lot less now in favour of my preferred LLM.
This is one of these headlines that makes me wish we had an in comment section poll pinned to the top of it rather than just reading opinions and trying to weigh the sentiment.

AI's are only as good as the material they've learned from.
I had a bug of sorts that I fixed by myself only today that I'd been trying to get the various flavours of ChatGPT to shine light on.
None gave me the answer and even when I came up with the solution and proposed it to GPT it said "yeah, sure, you are probably right but I couldn't find any references to back up your solution".
I've been writing software professionally for 35 years. AI has knowledge but lacks experience, wisdom, intuition, call it what you will.
AI is brilliant, I couldn't work without it now as it saves me so much time, but it isn't going to replace me in its current form.

I'm on a paid tier and I re-sell their AI through my software as a service to my user base.
Things haven't been great since the end of January going from almost 100% response rate to API requests to an irritating daily lump of timeouts and failed completions where their API returns garbage, nothing at all or some cloud server error from their end.
Interesting seeing that post today as I've seen no errors for 2 days now so hopefully they've got a handle on it.
Giving away free is cool, I've done it myself, but the take away lessons I learned from that are folks don't appreciate what they get for free and they will gorge themselves on it almost abusively. It'll be mostly bored people just passing time getting GPT to produce worthless crap images for amusement.
Change it to paid and behaviours and attitudes change.
Yes, the user base probably changes to a degree but the perception of value has a big factor in how people treat and use it with reverence in how/what they use it for.

I was writing something new into an app yesterday and using ChatGPT wishing it would just apply it directly instead of having to cut'n'paste, especially for re-writes.

On Xcode, for example, programmatically adding constraints to views is now so easy with ChatGPT. It used to be a tiresome, time consuming chore.
Now just tell it how you'd like it to appear and it does the constraints, I only had to cut and paste the code.
With this update I can now tell it to code, then compile it and then tell it what I like/don't like. Repeat until done in a shorter loop.

I've been writing software professionally for 35 years now since I graduated and this made my working life so much easier.
I don't see it replacing me any time soon though. It doesn't yet have the "Intelligence" the name AI claims.
Knowledge, yes. Intelligence or Wisdom? Definitely not. It lacks experience for one thing.

This weekend I lost my patience with ChatGPT (o3-mini-high) and said to it:
"You're fucking useless on this problem. I'm going to talk to Gemini..."
On the odd occasion I find myself visualising as Basil, with a branch, giving ChatGPT, as the car, a "damn good thrashing".

I keep expecting a sulk or it to have other some emotional response, which is maybe why I type that into it.
I always marvel at its calm, collected apology that I wish I could emulate myself.
Or maybe I'm poking it in an effort to see any glimpse of consciousness.

I've been publishing Apps for over 12 years now but never made significant amounts in those years until last year.
I launched a new AI feature in my most popular app, as a subscription, which has been extremely successful. Better than I'd hoped for.
The only complaints I've had from the user base is the addictiveness of it.
I could only nod my head when I saw the headline of this news article.
I'll also add to this, that 2024 was also my productive year in work output.
AI assisted coding, testing, planning, documenting and other admin done at 5-10x my normal rate.
I"m exhausted now and taking a bit of a rest from 2024.

I'm sold. I'd have this CAPTCHA any day instead of yet more traffic light and bike identifications.
Yeah, OK, it took me about 5 goes to get through it but it was fun!

56 years old here.
AI and OpenAI is the best thing that has happened to me in recent years.
My productivity as a pro software dev has gone through the roof.
That and I'm selling AI as SAS in my software has given me a new, and much loved by users, revenue stream.

"I hate AI"... because? Enlighten us.

I just did that.
Sitting here typing this out on a 2017 iMac 5K 27" that's now dog slow and stopped getting new MacOS versions last year.
I write Apps for a living. My running copy of Xcode is now a few versions away from the current as it stopped getting updates earlier this year.

If It hadn't been an iMac I'd have ditched it for a M Mini already.

Sitting behind me right now is a Studio Display I bought awaiting a Mac Mini M4 that I ordered which, according to DHL tracking, is with my postman now.

Yes, there's cheaper ways of doing this but I'm not buying it, my business is and it's doing well enough.
I did think of gutting my iMac for the 5K screen and I might still do that. My teenage, PS5 owning, son has been begging me for it.

I just wanted a complete refresh after seven years.
Honestly if Apple had offered a M4 27" iMac I'd still have taken this route.
Just feels like such a waste of a really good 27" 5K screen all because the Intel i7 is now dated.
The screens aren't changing much. The Studio is much the same as the screen I have in my iMac.
The processors on the other hand...

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne begins with the characters descending into the Earth drilling through the Snaefellsjökull volcano in Iceland.
My ex wife is from a village at the foot of Snaefellsjökull. I've spent a fair bit of time there.
Bjarni Pálsson is also a friend of mine from when he was studying in Edinburgh 25+ years ago.
Ironically I now live in New Zealand and the Kiwi's, I'm sure, will be watching this development with interest.
Maybe I'll be seeing Bjarni down this way in the not too distant future.
It's one of those "why haven't we tried this already?", things isn't it?
Maybe we have the tech know how now to pull it off.
All that power beneath our feet, everywhere.

Apple: I'm the customer.
Meta: I'm the product.

By struggles I meant my machine can't run all in memory and is using swap space on the drive.
I've noticed there a drive memory cache clean up bug which slowly nibbles away at my free drive space and only clears on reboot.
MacOS or Studio bug, not sure which is to blame.

Studio Koala (latest), on my x86 iMac, is showing 3.9G of memory in Activity Monitor.
I've got a Pixel 8 Pro simulator running and it's using 6.1G
So 10G just for Android development.
If by "just fine" you mean a hell of a lot of swapping then that's not my definition of "just fine".

That's not great for the life expectancy of any drive.
I would very much doubt if you could do real development using so little RAM.

I have a Mac Air M2 8G which I tried running Studio on but it just crawled and was hopeless.
Running Xcode at the same time on it would certainly kill it.