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To al those commenting, the headline was changed shortly after AppleZulu commented to what it currently reads.  Earlier the headline said something to the effect of "Helicopter crash caused by iPad".  Adding the word "dropped" changed the tone dramatically.

ArcaSwiss said:

It's laughable to think of putting spinning discs in this machine.  

Until SSD's step up and get affordable for large size, there will always be spinning disks. 4K, 6K, & 8K RAW takes up insane space. My Blackmagic Pocket Cinema camera, shooting 5.7K RAW fills a 128GB card in.....6 minutes. So while I'm not at all a fan of the speeds spinning HD's have, when I need to store 14TB for a single shoot, there's nothing in the SSD world that can do that for under $500. /edit. Cheapest way would be 4x4TB SSD's, totaling about $1,800 before tax. And then my data is spread over 4 drives.

Hopefully these are using a newer chipset than the Realtek RTL8125 based ones that have been out for several years.  The RTL8125 family powers 95% of the 2.5Gbe dongle adaptors on the market today and they are prone to overheating very quickly during sustained transfers (which is what you want 2.5Gbe or higher ethernet for).  When they overheat they throttle down below even 1Gbe speeds, making them WORSE than just using an old school legacy gigabit adaptor that can sustain full speed without ever overheating.  I have several 2.5Gbe dongles that I experimented with over the years and most of them work ok if you tear into the packaging and add your own larger heatsinks on the chips.  Looks ugly as hell but at least you can sustain 2.5Gbe speeds for more than 30 seconds with the beefier heatsinks.  Stock all these dongles are terrible.

You won't notice anything different if you need these for just web browsing, but if you are using them to speed up your local network, spend the extra cash and get a proper 10Gbe ethernet adaptor.  Yes they cost more, but they don't overheat.

Fun fact, you can get fast wired networking/internet on iPad if you use these dongles as iPadOS has built in drivers for them.

I don't know if Apple could buy ARM out from Softbank without triggering all sorts of monopoly alarm bells.  They would control the company that licenses the chip design that essentially every mobile phone manufacturer uses.  Would be a massive red flag.  I don't think Google could buy it either for the same reason.  

Having used the Tesla UI for 6 years now, I'm used to it where it's actually easier for me to use than the CarPlay UI.   I agree that most manufacturers OEM infotainment systems are hot trash though.  Tesla's UI is just much better than all other OEM UI's out there.  It's not perfect (even CarPlay has issues) but it's good.

9secondkox2 said:

The real story here is that Twitter is on the up and up and is looking forward to a bright future. With smart, successful people at the helm.

Uh, source?

Wow lots of jerks here.  

The fact we are even having this conversation shows just how incredible smartphone cameras have become over the last decade.

If you had told me that this level of quality was going to be possible on a smart phone the size of the iPhone 15 Pro Max back in 2007 when the OG iPhone launched I would have laughed you out of the room.  Sure it was clear back then that smartphone processing power would get better and better, but at the time there was a clear limit to what you could do with optical glass and image sensors.  Sure, I expected them to get better, but never thought it would hit the level we are currently at.

 Looking back at the pics I took on my original iPhone compared to what is possible now?  It's incredible.   All bets are off for what these devices will do in 15 more years.

I think this is pretty much what we all knew would happen here.   We all knew Apple would work to make the best sounding speaker possible, no surprise.   Everyone also knows Siri is a joke, and it would be the dumbest speaker out there (at launch at least).

Beyond the most basic commands, Siri is pretty useless.  It almost never understands my questions or commands when used.

It really is funny that we all immediately notice how "un-apple" the symmetry of the storage cabinet is compared to the other display tables.