Alex_V

Watching NBA basketball in immersive 3D? That’ll be something to behold. 

Kierkegaarden said:

Think of all of the technological innovation that could be worked on by engineers instead of having to deal with this crap that in the end does not benefit the user.  Anyone who thinks the EU is out to help the consumer is delusional — this is all about power — look at us, we can demand that trillion $ companies do something and they will do it!  They don’t believe in letting the market decide, because this would not require their oversight.  No oversight = no status = no power.

Every nation state has laws that protect the consumer, because they have proven to be necessary time and time again. I fully expect to hear the ‘market decides’ bull from a desperate corporate executive protecting his job, or a bought-off-the-shelf politician, but no serious person believes that unfettered markets will operate for the benefit of all, (and without destroying our biosphere,) without steerage and intervention. No significant sector of the industrial economy of the US has been shaped without the intervention of the various arms of government, through investments in infrastructure, subsidies, tax breaks, education, R&D, the law, such as anti-trust law, tort law etc. not to mention trade agreements, alliances, and military interventions around the world. The EU is merely exercising the power that they have.

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jeffharris said:

I'm thinking of proto-domed cities in hot climates. There won't be a gigantic dome, but like a reverse "Silo", more and more buildings will have indoor parks, indoor gardens, indoor chicken farms, just sticking up into the sky instead of into the ground. In dense urban areas with these types of buildings, they will gradually be interconnected by air conditioned trains, bike and walking tunnels, etc. So, proto-indoor living 24x7.

Your proto-domed cities already exist, in a sense. In my experience, Americans in the South are like the Arabs in the Middle East: they leave their air-conditioned homes every morning; drive along in their air-conditioned cars to their air-conditioned office; eat lunch at air-conditioned restaurants, then they’re off to their air-conditioned malls and Walmarts for shopping, and then it’s back home. The only time they’re exposed to the elements is in their dash to and from their car! All the while burning the fossil fuels that exacerbate the problem, like there’s no tomorrow. ;-)

chasm said:

If anything, this story just reinforces my belief that Apple IS NOT building a car to manufacture. What they are building, IMHO, is a car ecosystem that may feature self-driving and that extended CarPlay they already showed off last year, that could be licensed to other car manufacturers.

This story and others just massively hint at partnerships with existing carmakers rather than Apple trying to enter the car manufacturing business, which would have produced impossible-to-hide factories and permitting proof at least seven years ago (minimum) if that’s what they were actually doing.

I don’t believe that Apple would do that sort of thing. Apple is, at its heart, a product company. It’s why they never gave up on producing computer hardware. My guess is that, if they do decide to go ahead and launch something for this market, it’ll be a complete car. Years ago, Apple engineers looked at smartphones and, realising that they’re just hardware and software, they said: “We can do better.” I guess that they feel the same way about electric automobiles. 

jellyapple said:

Batteries should state the manufacture date.  My wife got a new 15” Macbook Air 2023 and found the battery inside was over ten years old. It’s shown on the coconut battery app. Do you know the manufacture date of the battery in your iPhone? 

Really? Is that possible? I find it hard to believe, for multiple reasons…