I'm not sure I understand why having space for A means that you also have space for B? You need the USB C port for charging - and in some cases connection. A SIM tray holder with surrounding electronics takes additional space, and it's not strictly needed as eSIM is a viable alternative. The phone is not for me - I'm keeping my current phone until 29, and "thinner" is not a tradeoff I'd make in this case anyway - but I do see them need for removing anything they possibly can to achieve it.

This cycle was described in a classic book, The Innovators Dilemma. I remember getting this book recommended by Matthew Szulik, back when he was the boss at Red Hat.

By "states rights are highly dependent on context", you mean that it's OK for GOP states to do it if the Democrats are in power - but that it's OK to send military forces to states that disagree with Trump or don't praise him enough? That seems to be the golden Republican standard these days...

This is the same guy who sued advertisers for not advertising on Twitter. I can't understand why large, global brands wouldn't want to be associated with that nazi-infested hellhole by spending money there...

I'm having a hard time seeing this as a problem with Kindle (as opposed to e.g. ownership of bought content).

Kindles have a long battery lifetime, measured in weeks. If it has run out, connect it to a powerbank and you've solved the problem for days. Content that you are reading or have read on the device is available, and if you have to get a new book - just connect it to your phone hotspot and download it. They're tiny.

Not necessarily - if they ask for and get consent they can store it. There's no sensitive data in what is listed.

However, what the app does - "let women anonymously share and search for information, advice, and photos of men they say they have dates with or are looking to date" - would be strictly illegal as they haven't gotten consent from the men in the database, The data would also contain information on the data subject's sexual life, which is a protected category of data. They'd also run afoul of the data subject's right to rectification of the information in the database.

It's strange that they don't separate investment in AI vs operating expenses in the rest of the company to keep and expand the markets they have. It's not like they're financially unable to do both - both AI and keeping the resources they need for operations(*). That said, buybacks are better for some than dividends because you pay taxes immediately on dividends while if the same money goes via buybacks you don't have to pay taxes before you realize the profits by selling the stock. Of course, if like most people you have mutual funds it doesn't matter.

(*) Which means more of a constant optimization up or down in the actual units, rather than large cuts everywhere.

Well, then it should be easy - if it no longer works and it's covered by a three year warranty they'll have to fix it somehow, Or, failing that, they will probably think a refund is easier,

You shouldn't buy that. Not only is it worse by almost every spec (cpu speed, graphics, memory, cameras, battery lifetime, external display support, wifi standard), but it will also have approximately 3-4 years less of updates from today. Per year, it will probably be more expensive than the cheapest M4 air.

Price discrimination is a common strategy. Not only between countries, but also between different customer segments. "Student discounts" and "senior discounts" are other examples.

The tactic is especially useful for products where you have a large fixed cost and a lower marginal cost - e.g. software. Take one example, Matlab. The normal cost of a software seems to be above $2000. Obviously, the marginal cost is close to zero but they have large fixed costs - so if you can sell it to home users for a much lower cost, you're still getting more money total even if that price if applied to business customers would bankrupt the company.

Ah, correction fluid. Nice flashback. It also reminded me of an old joke: "Q: How do you know a Swede has been using the computer? A: There's correction fluid on the display."

Actually, the healthcare in most of those countries has far better outcomes than the US. They also spend far less of their GDP doing so.

While I'm pro free market, I see that in this particular case - health care - it doesn't work. It's better to pay 10% of GDP in taxes for better healthcare than 15% of GDP through a mix of taxes (elderly), insurance, and out of pocket for worse outcomes.

Reasons for this might include that the buyers aren't rational (doh), that there are monopolies (patents, location, urgency), and that the costs are such that the large majority of the population needs insurance of some kind. The specifics of the market also means there are a lot of very bad incentives for the insurance companies to use pre-existing conditions or trying to deny coverage after the fact, and very strange and weird price/discount structures.

To be fair, having merit in the US is easy when the best the US can offer - the brightest minds, sharpest intellects, and most honest of people - are Trump, Kennedy,Hegseth, and Greene.

The problem with these old codebases is usually not the language as such, it's the byzantine specs - and usually partial lack thereof. And all the special cases hiding therein. Writing something you don't understand into a different language is a time consuming challenge, and for these systems breaking stuff often has severe consequences.

This is not how OS support in the Mac world works. Every OS is just supported for 3 years - 1 year of full support including feature upgrades and improvements, and 2 years of security updates. However, Mac gets news major OS versions for free - and a system will get these new major releases for 5-6 years, before they get 2 years of security updates on the final one. So a total of 7-8 years of support. They use the same scheme for both MacOS and iOS. Great for phones, not so great for computers. Microsoft is far superior there, and also in backwards compatibility for applications running on that platform.