bunnycorn

Thanks for letting us know.

I define myself politically as a Classical Liberal and therefore I strongly oppose pseudoscientific positions like those defended by the Critical Theory folks (aka "woke").

I wholeheartedly support the Godot team.

We can't tolerate each other. We can't be friends.

I know some people will tell that people like me are wrong, people like them are wrong, that we are both wrong, but you just need to educate yourself politically.

Looks like I bothered some fanboys, the Earth still rotates around the Sun. I don't have time for people that refuse to accept the truth, and the fact is that "duplex" is not even a shadow of what they promised last year, doesn't matter to anyone but for fanboys because the assistant usage is exactly as you expect: Siri the most used, then Samsung's Bixby then Google's... in a market where Android dominates, it's shameful for Google to lose so clearly at their core competence, so they push so hard for their image as a "cut above the rest" that some people actually believe it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/siri-google-assistant-voice-...

This is in the US, where Apple only manages a 36% smartphone market share, and google assistant is available on the iPhone, but Siri isn't on non-Apple devices

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-had-the-most-smartphone-...

Siri

Is this about Siri?

They promised that we all be driving in self driving cars in 2017. And they announced they partnered with FIAT Chrysler automotive.

Google simply doesn't have it.

Google sells this BS to journalists, and they sell it to Wall Street. That's only why Google is worth $817B.

It simply doesn't work in any real life situation.

Yes, the problem of self driving cars is they can kill people, that's the whole problem, thing is that google is always promising that "they are here for all", "it's the next year", etc. it's all BS.

You don't have a google self driving car, and you didn't book your hairdresser via duplex, and you won't be booking your car or anything through any of this.

Those are the facts.

It simply doesn't work, at all.

Prove that it does work. Because it just doesn't exist at all.

You pointed to an Android fanboy's site.

It's not the reality:

https://mashable.com/article/google-io-2018-report-card-dupl...

This is to put it lightly....

Google should fight back at last years promisses.

Where is the feature of calling people automatically on google assistant?

Last year they promised they would call my hair saloon for me, and it's all BS.

Like everything they say every year, it never works in real life.

But I see lots of "journalists" praising it, while criticizing Siri as useless.

Where is their self driving car too? Never complete, they always promise "it's the next year".

After a 30% drop in units sold (Independent data from IDC 1), Apple revenue was only hit by 5% in revenue 2.

1 https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/30/apple-36-million-iphone...

2 https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/apple-reports-second-...

Where does Apple "depends strongly" in China.

Sure is important for the iPhone, but it's not important for the iPad, Mac and Services.

It also depends on China/US relations.

AMZN was once the biggest company by market cap and over a $1T...

Now it's in the low 900's.

GOOG was once higher than Apple, now it isn't even in the 900's club.

Wall Street is dumb as a rock when it comes to technology and they invest heavily in industries they just don't understand.

My favourite example is cloud.

What is cloud: it's you renting computers.

No, it's not software, because people want a Hotel to go on vacations so they don't have to do the chores associated with living in a house (doing the bedroom, cleaning, etc.) and enjoy. Now, engineers, we want a reason to be hired, so PaaS doesn't have a point, SaaS has it's limited market, and IaaS is completly stupid.

There's a reason why the companies best aligned with doing cloud (those who make semiconductors) aren't aligning in it, is there a Intel cloud? A TSMC cloud? No!

Let them do the computer renting business, "it's the future", renting a thing that devaluates in value faster than a car!

So you beat the market for a total of... Two and a half months?

I've been beating the market for quite some time.

Looks like the market doesn't go your favor. It went mine, so I'm right.

The market is stupid, the proof is that a company's value doesn't change in a question of months, but stock does.

It's your prerogative if you want to believe that the market is stupid/predictable, or that you can invest better than people with billions of dollars in resources, but just ask yourself this: Why are you succeeding where others aren't?

Because very few of us are smart, and not me, because I'm small, but the big ones are controlling many dumb ones that believe the rhetoric they read anywhere online and for free. Specially the bots.

It's stupid because the market valuated AAPL at about $150 three months ago, and now is about $150.

That stupid.

BTW, I say the market is stupid because I bought AAPL shares January 28th (a monday), and I've bet the market ever since, I've beat SP500, DOW, I've won AMZN, MSFT, GOOG, everything. I even won Warren Buffet.

And I'm selling now, because the market is also predictable.

I have no words for it, they do as they are told by the news. I do the contrary, this is a warning sign for me, I might miss 10%-20%, but it doesn't matter, 30% is good enough and not worth the risk.

The market is stupid. They have valuated Apple under Amazon, now Apple is over Amazon and Microsoft.

How stupid is that?

Non-American here.

This is how I expect media to describe the US External Politics

If President is Democrat:

* If President Raises Military Expenditure: "he is helping protect the people of the world from tyrant governments"

* If President Lowers Military Expenditure: "we cant afford this many wars, we must instead focus on our own problems, we must focus on (insert recent catastrophe, that's inevitable in the US like a wild fire in the West Coast or a tornado in the East Coast)"

If President is Republican:

* If President Raises Military Expenditure: "he is being imperialist, we don't want this blood in our hands"

* If President Lowers Military Expenditure: "he is letting the tyrants like him do their bidding, remember the little kids in Africa, if we don't step in, who will?"

Beautiful!

I disagree with the author.

Google is the old web, no wonder The similarities between Hoolie and Google.

(hooli is a fictional company in the HBO series Sillicon Valley)

Oil is an heck of a drug.

I conclude that there's no win for Norway whatever happens. I am deeply sad because I see good in Norway and that's a rarity.

That "explanation" is the biggest joke.

Seriously, why can't companies just behave normal when Apple enters a market?

Nobody's going to choose Apple over Netflix or Steam or the like on the theory that Netflix/Steam is "scammy."

No.

In the same way people won't be choosing Netflix over HBO because HBO is scammy.

The whole article doesn't make any sense.

When you buy a computer or a phone, you buy just one and that's it, having more than a computer or phone doesn't make much sense as it's worse than having only one. So Apple needs to make a decidedly (for the costumer) better product.

While in art/entertainment, there's no "better", people consume the content they want, and can have more than one subscription.

You can have Netflix and Apple and HBO and many others, or none at all.

The only thing Apple needs is to produce content good enough that people are willing to spend the mensality.

The standard internet is Google's playground.

Having worked in an ISP, only one thing mattered to costumers, and only one thing: YouTube.

Lots of people said that when a popular local carrier changed from free Spotify to free Apple Music on one of its plans. Everybody switched to Apple Music.

Windows Phone failed primarily because it didn't offer anything that Android or iOS couldn't offer.

To me, Apple Music is vastly superior in that aspect.

Just the fact they have human curatorators that really know what they are doing, is telling.

How is it a personal attack, if the subject is "people".

Why?

Apple has Apple Music, has more music than Spotify and even if there is a track on Spotify and not in Apple Music, you can upload your own MP3s and stream them. I have a gigantic collection of Soundtracks and indie music there.

Open Source, pay for Apple's WebKit and Apple's contributions to FreeBSD and other open source projects.

Every Linux box that is connected to a printer (specially networked printers) runs CUPS in part by Apple.

Also, FreeBSD is a small part of macOS, contrary to what some people want other people to believe, and FreeBSD is not in that camp of GPLv3, so no, FreeBSD is not on that disgusting echo chamber leaded by Stallmann

Taylor Swift is an hypocrite.

She called out Apple when she was at her high, now she bends to Spotify and launches exclusive content on the platform. The platform that doesn't want to pay the artists even when they have all the right.

Ask Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, etc.

Basically an Amazon shopping list for them to make money off comissions.

Sure thing, he bought equipament that costs millions of dollars and did that just so he could post on his site that only opened when Apple started not using Qualcomm modems, right?

It's Qualcomm propaganda, like it or not.