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so, it looks like all the AI features run locally (via DaVinci AI Neural Engine)?

your friend should make a blog post about that. People like that should be exposed.

It could just be me, but the usecases they're trying to solve for always seem... out of touch from reality.

Either they live in their own bubbles where their lives revolve around constant shopping, traveling, throwing parties, and doing creative work...

Or they're not bothering to do basic observational research around how normal people live.

The music video is great too... the slow build up of the song towards the 3:10 minute mark, with him running towards you. Love it. So thankful I was old enough to be around to watch it on MTV.

love that distinction.

current 3/4 series had near perfect interior until 2023 interior update.

Yup. You can actually buy several European airlines with that kind of money.

For example, you can buy KLM Air france for less than $3B.

It is a profitable business that does $30B in sales and $1B in profit. (and has been profitable since for the past 4-5 years)

yeah the more people who use it means less competitive edge you have. Benefits get devalued. And you're back to square one.

100% agree. As someone who used both Mac and PC for 30+ years, and still use both, Mac OS (and iOS) aren't very intuitive. Lots of hidden functions. The way they organize settings is tough to find. It's always a struggle.

they're competing against themselves to essentially not screw up.

And “one” like most Fortune 500 companies.

Dieter Rams. Still alive and well. God bless him.

I guess we'll find out if this will turn out to be another rash hire in another 9 months. I'm actually surprised at this move.

agreed. IMHO, last good BMWs were E90 and F10s. That's when they still cared about craftsmanship even in areas not visible to customers.

"if you've ever driven a German car, you'll realize that the car was built for engineers and not for end users "

cracks me up. I once leased a BMW for 3 years. By the time I returned the car, I still didn't what all the cryptic buttons for HVAC and other controls. They just refused to follow established automotive ergonomic conventions.

Anyway, my father used to do business with Germans for a long time. He had many interesting stories to share, but one that has always stayed with me is, his disdain for how cheap / penny pinching his German companies and their employees were when doing deals. This was in the 90s, so definitely passed the West Germany glory days.

My take is, in the era of global competition, Germans didn't know how to strike the right balance and effective allocate resources. Where to compromise, and where not to. I don't know if it's sheer stubbornness or they're just wired differently.

It's the 25% VAT. Pre VAT, it's ~$685.

With state sales tax of 8% where I live, the base would cost me $648.

So not a huge difference.

That's the magic threshold. Can't complain about the non-upgradable 8GB RAM at that price.

To clarify, I meant, model with Pro chip, not just Macbook Pro name.

For example, up until MacBookPro M2, MacBookPro M2 came with M2 Pro chip.

However, starting with M3, Apple lowered the MacBookPro MSRP to $1599, but its base configuration was downgraded to M3 chip from M3 Pro. To get the M3 Pro, you had to pay $1999. There's substantial performance between the two.

Same with M4. To get the M4 Pro chip, you had to pay $1999.

Now to get M5 Pro chip, it's $2199. Still a good value, but just saying it's a deviation from the trend.

$200 price bump across the board. The cheapest 16" is now $2699 and 14" Pro $2199. I think it's a fair price considering M2Pro 14" was $1999 (though it was discounted) only had 512GB and 16GB RAM.

Maybe he didn’t write this one.

What made system 7 and 8 worse in some respect was when it crashed, it crashed hard without warning

With windows the crash was progressive so you have time to save and prepare.

I also have fond memories of windows 2000. It was rock steady and polished. I preferred it over system 8 and even OS X which had to many Unix conventions.

I couldn’t do it. Much respect for them. In the 80s when Korea was under quasi military regime, there were many street protests. Molotov cocktails and tear gas being exchanged. Some killed, many beaten down by riot police. Most were led by students.

I think their secret weapon is their opensource UI library.

https://blueprintjs.com/

I've been tracking this project since 2018. It hasn't changed drastically since then, but man it was polished and robust library.

Our future is bright. This made me smile more than most news I've read in recent months.

Screens are getting bigger and bigger, yet they make things smaller and harder to click on.

Back in the days when it was common for Macintosh to have 640x480 screens (or even smaller), they still fully visible window controls that were impossible to miss.

https://erichelgeson.github.io/blog/2021/03/23/ultimate-syst...

"Which is to say, do they know that touch interfaces are bad and do it anyway because it saves money? Or do they go through life thinking they're actually making a usable product?"

It's likely the former. Industrial designers are trained on ergonomics so they know the benefits of physical switches.

However, at least in the case of BMW / Mini, they're forced use touchscreens by their management primarily because:

1. Not only it saves money

2. It also enables subscription models for certain features like heated seats and steering wheel. No heated seats? Just remove the UI buttons.

Unless consumers push back (like VW customers did), they will continue to cut costs.

I can forgive the circle screen in a Mini Cooper just because it's a heritage thing. What I don't like is, not having physical controls for heated seats, temperature controls, and heated steering wheels. Mini made all those touch screen, which don't work nice with gloves.

I welcome to physical buttons. But multiple rectilineal shapes dominate without harmony. Almost feels like a semi truck interior.

The headline is clickbait-y but I think the article is well articulated. I found the "What actually helped" helpful too.

Dumb question - Why would Waymo disclose this much information to public and competitors?