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AppleInsider said:

"There's absolutely no limit to this transformation," Yaccarino tweeted. "X will be the platform that can deliver, well... everything. [Elon Musk] and I are looking forward to working with our teams and every single one of our partners to bring X to the world."

All that nonsense with charging developers through the nose for API access, and this ostrich still thinks the company has "partners" that will help bring its vision to life???

GeeAye said:

I think that is a typo.

Its name is soon to be "Ex".

Brilliant!

auxio said:

Clearly this artist has never worked in Desktop Support

Given that different people value different things, what I appreciate most is that we have choices. Android and iOS reflect different design philosophies and each OS has its strengths according to those approaches. A "hot take" that provides no context is just click-bait designed to waste energy.

I happen to prefer a system that (in addition to the technical aspects mentioned by @Auxio) requires less RAM and fits pretty seamlessly into the rest of my personal digital ecosystem and is not funded by the surveillance apparatus that seeks to turn all of us into commodities. I understand that I am trading some flexibility and customisability for these features; happily, it remains my choice.

I am also astoundingly happy that the people who prefer to spend their time elbows-deep in code and configuration settings have a toy to play with as well - it keeps me from endless conversations about things I don't (any longer) care about.

With general-purpose devices you can always argue that the device that is "better" for the most activities is overall the better device - that's perfectly logical. But as a practical matter, if a given device does everything you want/need it to do then why do you need to compare it with anything else?

saarek said:

I hate adverts with a passion, so am always on the no ad plans. The biggest benefit to me from these streaming services was the fact that there were no blasted adverts. Now it's changing and they are all jumping on the ad band waggon.

It amazes me that these companies seem to receive $6 per users for crappy ads that almost everyone either mutes or walk away from to grab a cup of coffee.

All their data shows that they make more from ad-supported subscriptions than from ad-free subscriptions. I believe it's not because they receive more per subscriber from advertisers than the amount they lose from a full-fee subscription but rather that they end up with more subscribers overall by offering the lower-priced tier and in aggregate it's more revenue/profit.

But it's still weird.