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racerhomie3 said:

The EU is out of its mind! They are trying to regulate American innovation with their policies 

JP234 said:

While it's inconvenient and expensive for Americans, we should express gratitude for China's zero-COVID policy. Has everyone forgotten where it came from in the first place? And where the majority of influenza and coronaviruses originate? And how they spread to humans from animal vectors such as swine, fowl and bats? China's policy is protecting us not only from existing COVID strains, but new and possibly deadlier variants, new and deadlier swine flu strains like the H1N1 pandemic that emerged in 2009 (and shut down my workplace for 2 days), and bird flu strains like the H5N1 that emerged in 2005, resulting in the forced extermination of 50 million domestic poultry worldwide, including here?

Thank you China, for doing what needs to be done, even if we refuse to do so.

JP234 said:

For some insight into the personality and inspiration of Elon Musk, please read this biography of Nikola Tesla. "Tesla: Man Out Of Time." The only difference is the money.

https://www.amazon.com/Tesla-Man-Time-Margaret-Cheney/dp/0743215362/ref=asc_df_0743215362/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312155960128&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6767994804293495056&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021715&hvtargid=pla-451064473356&psc=1

entropys said:

I suspect Apple was interested in streaming multiple services and global search through the ATV service, but no matter how many media companies it approached, had trouble getting a dance partner, as those companies wanted to develop their own solo routine. Apple will have to wait until those services fail through poor profitability, and the execs who pushed them “move on”.

also, as a streamer only, the Apple TV is seriously overpowered. If all you do is stream, if you have a reasonably new Tv, well smart Tv apps are good enough, and if after a year or two your TVs smart Tv functions are no longer being updated, a chromecast with Google TV or a  firestick 4K do everything streaming for less than half the price, often a quarter the price on sale.

What the Apple TV has is power, lots of power, rivalled only by the NVIDEA Shield, which is roundly thrashed by the Apple TV. While it has the best GUI, that power and storage means it is also pretty good with games and services via apps, and the best GUI and updating system of all the streamers.
The fitness + app is a good example of the kind of add on apple can do with the Apple TV. But that demand is limited, especially now the Covid pandemic is over.

what apple hasn’t exploited is the games to undercut the consoles. While I am not a gamer, quite clearly the third party games app developers for the Apple TV don’t have the resources to build a must have game for the Apple TV it drive sales from those that otherwise wouldn’t even look at an Apple TV. A chicken and egg problem.  Perhaps just like Microsoft did with the original xBox by buying Bungie and seizing Halo from the Mac and making it xBox only, or even Apple’s own fitness +, Apple will have to do something similar to get gamers want to buy an Apple TV for an exclusive game that uses all that power.