Posts by Bugsy11 35 publicly visible posts • joined 2 May 2013
mmmkay, you want to take away ChatGPT from a parent trying to answer a question from their teen about a chemical reaction problem and instead, hand them a slide rule. I hope you will have sneakers on when you do that as the parent may want to do something with that slide rule that you may not like.
As per my reply below to another poster in denial of AI, kids write their exams sans tech devices and they are doing very well. They use ChatGPT to learn, ex. chemical reaction equations. The step by step breakdown is to help them understand. They can not copy on exams as there are no tech devices allowed. You are living in an imaginary world, not the real world. Walk into any high school or university near you and wake up!
Trump raising tariffs 60% vs. China and 20% vs rest of world > U.S. consumers pick up the tab with sudden inflation, probable U.S. recession with retaliatory tariffs then global recession
Harris raising corporate taxes and taxes on ultra-rich > Corporations pick up the tab, their BOD lose a percentage from their $ kazillions / year, U.S. jobs created with the corporate tax increase, lower inflation, soft landing continues
However, rising trade deficit with China also needs to be balanced to get control of long term inflation and slow down USD printing machines. Continued stick and carrot approach of Biden / Harris needs to encourage friend shoring of manufacturing supply chains and reciprocal trade deals negotiated with these new countries.
Their manufacturing margins will be lower as they will now be bidding for contracts as opposed to status quo which is for the West to negotiate with a manufacturing monopolist.
The money in question has been in an escrow account during the legal proceedings, meaning that it’s not a fine, per se. Instead, that money will now be released to Ireland. Apple, in return, will probably get a nice tax credit from US government for future revenues earned outside US.
What will end up is that iPhones, Androids, and possibly PC's will end up costing E.U. consumers more money than in other countries. Device makers will need to ramp up shelf prices to make up for lost revenues from their App Stores. Meanwhile Spotify, Epic, and other greedy developers already making $ billions on these platforms will be able to rake in more revenues from EU consumers through their own app stores. EU consumers will be picking up the tab for the higher prices. Meanwhile, Spotify, Epic, and other multibillion $ companies will be blowing kisses to Ms. Vestager as they laugh all the way to the bank with their pockets flush with EU consumers' cash. This is not to even mention the increased ads that may start to show up in first party apps on iPhones and Androids. That will be another ding to EU consumers wallets to remove them. Ms. Vesteger will probably end up doing more harm to EU consumers than any Silicon Valley company ... all for protecting multi-billion $ software companies that want even more market share and more cash at the expense of smaller developers and consumers.
No need to bang your head for such legislation. All you need to do is wait for Apple to build gen AI into Final Cut and Margrethe Vestager will be right there to sue them for not having deep fake restrictions built into their AI-infused video editing app. She loves to sue Apple for anything and everything but does not mind the Big Five music labels all colluding to prop up a single music streamer to rip off EU customers and EU artists simultaneously. As long as a company is EU based, she apparently feels antitrust laws do not apply to them. But with her animosity towards Silicon Valley companies, it's only a matter of time before AI-infused video editing apps will be sued if they do not have deep fake restriction algo's built in.
My wife had to go for one week without an Apple watch when we traded the old one in for credit and ordered a new one from web store. She was totally missing the watch. She used it to beep her iPhone all the time at home. Once during the week with no watch, she could not find her iPhone for half a day. She's a yoga instructor and had to borrow my Apple Watch just for the timer app for holding her students' yoga poses. Overall, once you've had the Watch, it becomes very difficult to live without it.
The effect of "the consumer pays the tariffs" is a transient one. Jim Cramer says supply chains can shift for many industries out of China within a couple of quarters. Other countries would be only too happy to step in and fill in the gap as has already started to happen.
Did not mean to imply that all ARM Macs will be cheap but just that Apple now has the capability to better go after the lower end mainstream consumer market since they don't have to pay the Intel tax. In another couple of years, they may not be paying any Qualcomm tax either.
What's the difference between an iPad and an ARM Mac anyway? The ARM Mac saves on component costs by not needing a touch screen but then requires some costs for adding the keyboard. Lower end iPads these days can be pretty cheap - sub $500.
The low end ARM MacBook Air I am guessing may be sub $1000, and prior year's model even less. Apple has a way of using previous year's models to penetrate the lower end markets. And these may still be more powerful than low end Windows notebooks.
There seems to be a bit of a change in Apple's attitude towards pricing lately as evidenced by the iPhone SE's success. The CFO Luca Maestri hinted this also when analyst W. Mohan questioned him on profit margins going forward. Lucas answer was that they are not focused on margins but more so on success of the platform. The margins may be something that they worry about later on after gaining market share these days. I think they will be priced fairly competitively. There seems to be a new drive towards a "street fight" for market share as Tim Cook told Congress this week. Let's see how it goes.
Not only will the ARM Macs out power the Intel PCs but the Macs may also undercut the PC's in pricing, WinTel monopoly may be about to take a hit. New sheriff on the way soon. Of course this shouldn't affect the Fandroids and their ultra low end Chromebook market for those on minimalist budgets. Google can have this all to themselves. I'm, sure Tim Cook could care less.
You are probably right to ask that question. I doubt demand will drop. Demand will just shift over to new buyers, i.e., the Samsung, et. al. group that manufacture their phones outside of Middle Kingdom. Users are not going to wait around for Huawei to create a new ecosystem, Lol.
These iPhone sales slowdown predictions always come this time of year when Apple is working on new devices to be rolled out by Sept. Each year, it seems the media like to use it to their beloved "Apple is doomed" click bait. Foxconn already stated they are expecting ramp up in their phone production again in second half of year. Surprise, surprise. Move along, nothing to see here.
The only way to really break up an entrenched incumbent like Google is not to try and replace it right away but to first embrace, extend, and only then slowly try and extinguish it. Essentially two relatively simple steps may be all that is required to accomplish this.
1) On the desktop, all search queries in browsers should be required to present double framed results page with left frame for Google, and right frame for say E.U.’s own Qwant engine. If users don’t see what they like in the left frame, they click on an answer in the right frame.
2) On smartphones require search results to be swipable so that user can swipe the Google results page if they don’t see what they want to have the same query run thru Qwant.
This allows enough traffic to be built up through Qwant to raise money thru ad revenues, perhaps by using differential privacy to protect user identity as Apple does. Qwant might then have a chance to improve and catch up to Google in search
>Orange and now EE allow you to have multiple SIMs and provided you are on the right plan (£££) you can share the data on the master plan.
We have plans like that in Canada but the carriers still require an obligatory extra device connection fee on top of the shared data plan. For example, it's $10 per month connection fee for the Apple LTE Watch from Bell Canada. It makes sense for the Watch as it's a highly mobile device but for a notebook that will be used most of the time in a WiFi, it is not cost effective for most consumers. Some road warrior professionals may go for it but this is a niche. 5G won't change anything. Intel has good publicity machine but it's likely to remain a niche product IMO.
"So are you calling for Microsoft, Apple and Google products to be banned too?"
No, just the spyware from communists who seem to have a national policy of steeling technology from other countries.
BTW, you can tell which tabloid forums are frequented by the Chinese "50 center" troll army. It's the ones with all the down votes on any anti China comments. Looks like the Reg is popular across the Great Wall.
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