@j404
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@rootwyrm @graydon @cstross I would challenge your assumptions:
— Apple doesn't sell “loss leaders”. It’s why even a simple USB cable can cost $20 and the VisionPro is $3500. The Neo is profitable.
— Apple is not cannibalizing, they’re pulling new users in. Services are a huge profit center. Neo customers will subscribe.
— MacBooks are known to be more durable than PCs. You can still see 10-year old iPhones or MacBooks in use. RAM? Cores? Only nerds care.
The Neo is a game-changer.
@cstross Monster on a spaceship (à la Alien, or recent episode of Monarch)?
Chimera of two characters through transporter accident? (The Fly)?
@cstross Andy Warhol wrote a novel, "A: a Novel", in which he had someone follow him and another person around NY for two days, recording their dialogue. In true Warhol form, he didn't write it and it's not really a novel, but it's a great example of real dialogue. Mr. Stross is correct.
@carnage4life Twitter was already a shitty experience and growing shittier as it scrounged for more revenue, even before Musk turned it into a brain-eating zombie. I got out way back.
How is Bluesky? I assumed the same thing would eventually happen there since it has the same leadership.
@gregeganSF Why bother? There would be nothing on the Web but the Hive Mind. It would be like AI taking over every Web site.
Oh, wait.
@carnage4life This has been the case since long before the tech industry. Edison invented the phonograph, but others figured out how to make money from it through music. The Renaissance could be viewed as copying the ancient Greeks' homework. The Greeks had the legend of Prometheus stealing fire from the gods. It’s what we humans do. The smart kids usually want their homework copied.
And when we didn’t do that (e.g., when the Qing dynasty turned down Western military tech) it was a disaster.
@carnage4life Apple is the adult in the room. It spends millions to burnish its reputation for taste and quality, while other companies throw billions away overbuilding AI infrastructure.
Which Apple will purchase at a discount when the bubble bursts.
@mindpersephone The bimbo secretary who is secretly the CEO would be fun.
@carnage4life I know it's blindingly obvious, and I feel stupid for mentioning it, but:
Couldn't he have just given everyone in the Vimeo "family" a 10% pay cut? I mean, if it really were necessary for the company's viability. And give the C-suite 15% pay cuts to show leadership of the family?
@carnage4life blocked by the paywall, but that's okay: Ars Technica had a good article on Luddites a while ago:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/would-luddites-find-the-gig-economy-familiar/
tl;dr: they were organized and articulate, but the victims of smear campaign.
