On one hand, the government should be looking at OSS. On the other hand, screw Microsoft’s shitty office software. If missing out on massive government contracts forces them to improve it, I’m all for it.

Fun fact, if you adjust for inflation, this machine is only $52 more than the original switch was at launch.

This is basically the originally pricing, adjusted for inflation + Trump’s 20% Chinese manufacturing tariff.

Looks like we’re seeing the impact of inflation + tariffs.

The OG Switch was $300 in 2017. This console would be about $350 if you adjusted for inflation.

In its suit, Samsung alleged that Oura had a history of filing patent suits against competitors like Ultrahuman, RingConn, and Circular for “features common to virtually all smart rings,” such as sensors, batteries, and common health metrics.

The problem isn’t the features, it’s that Samsung is copying the very concept of a smart ring. Oura was the first company to make and patent biometric smart rings. So, yeah, if you make a biometric smart ring without paying them, you’re getting sued. That’s how patents work.

For the past 30 years, Samsung’s consumer product development strategy has been 75% “copy the competitors, then pay lawyers to fight it out.”

I thought that was rowing machine porn.

You will encounter this man at work.

They will ask for your help with something on their workstation, and it would be faster for you to drive with them watching over your shoulder, but this cryptic thing is their keyboard.

Instead, you will be forced to sit behind them like Patrick Swayze guiding Demi Moore at a throwing wheel. You will eventually take your shirt off, launch Unchained Melody in Spotify, then slowly guide them through a system setting panel.

You will notice how soft their hands feel. The hyper-ergonomic keyboard has allowed their fingers to move with minimal effort, allowing the skin to remain supple, smooth - almost unused.

You will ask yourself, “Is he right?” How could a keyboard be so aggressive and wrong, and yet, support something so gentile.

You try to deny the feeling. Your friends and family will mock you like your uncle Dvorak. Maybe you start with a trackball and see if being naughty feels right.

Well, one is a public benefit company, the other is not. So not exactly the same shit.

Some of the newer auto manufacturers do that. Telsa, Rivian, etc. Those companies all have good in-house software developers. Almost everyone else farms this stuff out, which is why it’s never updated.

Or it’s just the classic Apple “launch some weird shit with a cool interaction model or form factor, but we don’t really know how people will -actually- use this.”

AppleTV, AppleWatch, Firewire iPod, HomePod, etc. They kick it out, people complain about it, Apple learns the users who adopted it, then they focus the feature set when they better understand the market fit.

IMHO, it seems like that’s the play here. Heck, they even started with the “pro” during the initial launch, which gives them a very obvious off ramp for a cheaper / more focused non-pro product.

At least one of those guys is able to ship a product that does what it was advertised to do.

The problem with the Vision Pro is that no one wants to pay $4000 for what it does.

The Vision Pro is a cool solution in search of a user need.

Voice control is a user need that Apple struggles to deliver solutions for.

I think enterprise needs will ensure that people develops solutions to this.

Companies can’t have their data creeping out into the public, or even creeping out into other parts of the org. If you’re customer, roadmap, or HR data got into the wrong hands, that could be a disaster.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft will never get AI into the workplace is AI is sharing confidential enterprise data outside of an organization. And all of these tech companies desperately want their tools to be used in enterprises.

Yeah, it a lot of those studies are about stupid stuff like an LLM in-app to look at grammar, or a diffusion model to throw stupid clip art into things. No one gives a shit about that stuff. You can easily just cut and paste from OpenAI’s experience, and get access to more tools there.

That said, being able to ask an OS to look at one local vectorized DB of texts, images, documents, recognize context, then compose and complete tasks based upon that context. That shit is fucking cool.

That said, a lot of people haven’t experienced that yet, so when they get asked about “AI,” their responses are framed with what they’ve experienced.

It’s the “faster horse” analogy. People that don’t know about cars, busses, and trains will ask for a faster horse when you ask them to envision a faster mode of transport.

If you’re dumb, and you can get $15-17k from selling an existing vehicle, you can get a 3 year lease down to delta of $500-$600.

Telsa was pushing leases pretty hard because a lot of EV incentives are lease-only. I’ll bet they duped a lot of people into putting a shitload down for a lease.

To be fair, Rivian is selling as many trucks as they can produce. Rivian could sell more vehicles if they had the line capacity.

Tesla is an older company with more mature manufacturing lines, and they can make more Trucks, but no one wants them.

Why can’t it work?

I work on AI systems that integrate into other apps and make contextual requests. That’s the big feature that Apple hasn’t launched, and it’s very much a problem that others have solved before.

The new models are being fixed by “nut clamping”

large flaps of skin

Seems like most of the downvotes are in the Telsa communities. The other communities upvoted it heavily.

Having clocked in a lot of hours in San Francisco cabs, Ubers, Lyfts, and Waymos, IMHO, the Waymos are the least terrifying - by far.

My opinion might change if they’re ever allowed to travel at high speeds on a highway, but in a congested city where you can rarely get above 35mph, they feel really good.

No aggressive or distracted driving, no tipping, no stinky ass air freshers, and generally no double parking to pick people up.

I’m a convert.