I agree and probably 90% of the price increase is greed. Apple not being able to bully the memory suppliers probably had them showing toothy grins at the negotiation table. What do you predict RAM pricing was prior to this RAM scarcity?

Broadcom has been sued by AT&T. Fidelity and the UnitedHealthcare. The first two companies reached settlements with Broadcom. Why would Broadcom settle if they had no legal requirement to honor prior contracts?

You do exactly this. The c suite (the ones making these decisions) are incentivized by triggering the stocks to move. They get that motion by any action that can move the stock price during their tenure. Will it leave a husk that is ready to implode in 4-5 years time? It doesn't matter... they did their job and it triggered their stock incentive payout and golden parachute. They are already gone and moved on to the next company where they can claim that under their reign the stock jumped 20% at company X. This is why after a long enough time as a publicly traded company they all become shit, lose what made them great and sows the seeds of their own devolution.

My current laptop is a touchscreen and i find it useful. I tried using a surface and a surface book and they both were awful experiences/ This is on a dell XPS and it has been useful. That being said i do not use it every day

The alarming rate at which 505k employees burn through the annual token allotment with little to nothing to show for it except some super wasteful reports that are likely cheaper to produce in meat space will be the topic of a future article posted here in Early 2027.

The tasks AI is capable of are not six figure salary tasks.

Extract data from an emailed AP invoice attachment and let some low paid grunt review the metadata for approval and applying corrections. Saves manual entry time. Maybe it can cut the cost of processing an invoice from $5 to $2 per invoice and at scale can help free up the AP Admin or keep from hiring additional staff. Currently AI is decent enough for assisted back office tasks. If the prices of the AI tasks increases like we are seeing then the same process can be farmed out to low cost labor overseas.

Investors matter to a public company like Microsoft. They grew from a 300 billion dollar company to a 3-4 trillion dollar company under Satya. By that metric he was a success. Did any of this trickle down to a better more secure corporate environment? Not even a little. Windows is absolutely an afterthought to MS these days, and it has gotten worse with each update as it tries to push paid services on the end user.

If I steal a truckload of books so I can read them, it doesn't change the fact that I stole a truckload of books. Maybe the reading of the books wasn't the crime, but that is not what this lawsuit is about. This is about infringing copyright on millions of books, not about reading those books.

Do you honestly think the only reason people are prescribed ketamine is for PTSD? Do a quick bit of research and learn something. The rest of your comment is equally gibberish.

Starvation and famine might lead to a war. My tomato having less nutrients is a hidden affect most people won't notice as log as they are sated. It's a gradual onset of of a problem that no one notices until they are diabetic down the road.

Who is going to support the devices? Schools use Chromebooks because they are essentially a browser that needs no support. Apple laptops need support. They lost the education market due to costs around support, not because Chromebooks are better.

You're probably right. There was nothing in the 2016 DNC Wikileaks that pointed to anti-bernie sentiment or a pro hillary agenda. Nobody resigned in disgrace and it was all a conspiracy. I didn't discuss the 2020 election, just the 2016 and the 2024 where there was questionable behavior.

Does it matter who you voted for? The WIKILeaks DNC leak clearly showed that they didn't care who you voted for in the primaries Hillary was getting the nod in some powerplay. Then you had no choice to vote for anyone but Kamala in the last election. Voting is an act.

They defunded the predecessor the TIA by a vote in congress in 2003. It can be done again if people actually cared. If Snowden revealing the depths the NSA was probing it's own citizens didn't wake anyone up, it likely never will.

They failed as a shoe company and they decided to pivot in to the AI space and their stock grew %700 that day. This is reminiscent of the dotcom bubble and when it burst. Nobody asked you to care about their thoughts on AI. In fact the point is; why would they have valuable thoughts on AI? They wouldn't, and there is no valid reason their stock went up %700 percent other than hype train.