avon b7

My guess is a thin (very thin?) puck-like device with a thin (very thin?) LED strip around the base.

Brushed metal (caressible) or glass (lickable). 

Internal wireless connectivity (no ports) and using mics/speakers from other devices. 

Cloud processing plus subscription. Bingo! 

Honesty, the 'sci-fi dream' is what it's always been: AI with an interface of some kind. Ideally voice and a screen. That's it.

Would a humanoid robot be a plus? Yes for some situations, but if it's going to sell in hundreds of millions, I'll rule that option out.

strongy said:

avon b7 said:

shywizard said:

I’ve asked this before, but nobody seems to answer.  I need someone to tell me why Apple legally (or doesn’t legally) has to host everyone on Apple’s App Store.   Can’t Apple decide it doesn’t want to host an app like Fortnite.  It’s Apple App Store after all.  So can Apple decode it doesn’t want to offer Fortnite ?

Sure if they host someone, they must provide external links for purchases to be made per the court order.    But I’m talking about the ability to decide which App are even on its store.  

Apple is on the hook for anti-competitive App Store practices around the world.

Singling out a company by not allowing it on the store (while simultaneously not allowing any other store to exist on iDevices) would really put Apple in hot water. 

do you need reminding that a court ruling allowed Apple to continue banning Epic Games and its subsidiaries from the App Store.

The question I was referring to had nothing to do with the US court ruling. 

The question was completely open:

"Can’t Apple decide it doesn’t want to host an app like Fortnite.  It’s Apple App Store after all."

The point was Apple deciding, not anyone else (courts included). 

This is a great reminder of how old I am!

So many long forgotten names in here. Chooser! Wow! 

I used to tinker with ResEdit and run through the tips and tricks in Ted Landau's magnificent 'Sad Macs, Bombs and Other Disasters books'.

I still have it and cherish it. It's untouchable. My wife always puts it on the throw out list but that book will probably be with me to the end. 

As of 2022, Ted was still going strong but of course, retired. 

As for HFS/HFS+, I really hope they keep support for it long into the future. I have a huge amount of my life stashed away on old disks and I'm sure some those files slipped the net as I migrated to other formats and the cloud. 

I agree with this take on the current state of play.

Big Tech has too much power and influence and has everincreasingly walked the fine line of abuse of power/influence. 

Big Pharma too. And lobbying is also basically out of control.

I also feel uneasy seeing the influence of some tech billionaires shaping things at government level. 

ravnorodom said:

I think Apple Intelligent wants their own GPU server farm running just for them. I would say after 5 years of their data center expansion in North Carolina, it would put Apple in a strong position to control its AI infrastructure end-to-end, reducing reliance on third-party cloud providers and giving them a major competitive edge in on-device and cloud-based AI services.

While reducing dependencies is often a desirable goal (once cost considerations have been taken into account) I don't think it will be a major competitive cloud advantage seeing as all the major competitors already enjoy that advantage.