welshdog

The mistake appears to be focussing on autonomous driving instead of good design. Talk about something no one wants, a windoless car with a game controller for emergency driving. It's easy to understand how a tech company can get enamored with something like self driving, but the fact that the executives went along with it for so many years is pretty bad. I'm thinking about 5 years ago they began to figure out it wasn't going to work, but the project was so big and expensive that no one was willing to stand up and kill it.

Autonomous driving likely will never work the way the tech prognosticators want it to. It could be 50 years before it becomes ubiquitous. One thing that will absolutely be necessary for wide adoption is time, and thus the deaths of millions of people like me who would never be comfortable riding in such a vehicle. funny thing about life on earth, every 100 years - all new people.

Was reading these comments and noticed I had been logged out of AI. Clicked the sign in button and right there big as day was the option to sign in with Twitter.

As others have sort of said, this seems to be a transition product. Or a product attempting to plant a seed for future products. I don't know for sure, but it doesn't seem intended in any way to be a mass market device. This sort of tech has no appeal for me, but who knows, even at age 66 I might change that position if I see a reason to do so.

IanS said:

The other thing that I would like to see from Apple that I think would help with this transition is a version of the Apple TV with the power level closer to a Mac than an iPhone.

This seems like it would be good thing.
Or maybe a Mini with enhanced gaming specs AND an Apple TV built in.

9secondkox2 said:

darkvader said:

9secondkox2 said:

This is theft. 

The government wants money. Solution? Just retroactively “adjust” someone’s taxes from years ago! A good solid decade ought to do it. 

Pure evil. If there was ac actual issue all this years ago, the IRS WOULD HAVE NOTIFIED THEM AND THEY COULD PAY WHAT WAS OWED. this isn’t that. This is an extortionist government. 

Microsoft didn’t do anything illegal. They took advantage of the way the tax systems were set up, like any smart company would do. 

The only theft is what Micro$oft did.  And the sad part is that a company with $136 billion in profits in 2022 only has to pay $29 billion in penalties for their decade of theft.

Minimizing tax burden by storing your money in a more favorable location (still within US jurisdiction) wasn’t illegal at the time. Retroactively making it so is just theft by the government. Pure and simple. “Adjustment” my left buttock! Microsoft didn’t do anything wrong. They looked at options available to them and utilized them. anything else would just be dumb. But now you have the government retroactively changing things. If a company knew that would happen, of course they’d do things differently in the past. But they didn’t. Because it wasn’t wrong at the time. It’s like an entrapment feature of the government. Pure thievery.

You don't know that "Microsoft didn’t do anything wrong.". No one has said they were doing anything illegal, they simply didn't do the tax dodging in a manner the IRS thinks is correct. There will be a back and forth and eventually a settlement will be reached. There is no reason to ever place any faith or belief in corporations doing the right thing, that's not how they operate. All desisions are based on what makes or saves the most money - period. Apple are slightly less guilty of that than some mega-corporations, but MSFT? Come on, they are not going to follow the law to the letter if they think they can get away with it. Gates' legacy of hacking and gaming everything, always and forever lives on.