Readit NewsBasically, the most common pattern with „commodity“ tech seems to be like this.
Western companies go ahead and expend a lot of R&D to establish a new market or validate a market need. Chinese companies go ahead and flood the market with slighly worse but significantly cheaper versions of said product (often forcing the „inventor“ company to take a significant margin hit, reducing new R&D budgets). Chinese companies them spend R&D on iterating on new features of the product (which they also can, because they saved a lot of R&D on the first product iteration).
„Western“ companies mostly created the situation for themselves. They basically consolidated all their manufacturing in China. China has also invested tremendous amounts into education and qualification. So China effectively turned from „the workbench of the world“ into a country where companies have extensive knowledge in product design, development, testing and manufacturing - as well as a mostly local supply chain.
First-mover advantage, which comes from R&D into new markets is short lived no matter what. It is critical for firms that hit new ground to find ways to continue to grow their position and market as soon as they can. Copy-cat firms always always come, even big western megacorps love to come in and push out the little western corps, this is typically what is taught in said MBA class. Depending on the market, making newer products that are cheaper is absolutely something a firm must evaluate if there is a demand for it that can be a position and a threat to them.
It's simply the song and dance of the business lifecycle. It's one of the many reasons why 90% of startups fail.
One big issue that came up (and killed the idea) is that if you are not battery powered, then putting a USB-C power input on your device that will only work if you can negotiate 12V+ with adequate current will just cause confusion. In my case, I don't think I could even boot to an error message on 5V.
Phones and the like don't have this issue, since they are still usable (charging slowly) on 5V, but can make use of higher voltages and currents to charge faster.
So I guess my question for the implementer is how booting & negotiating on 5V and then accepting higher voltage is likely to work in practice.
Of course, people won't like this, I'm not exactly enthused either, but the alternative would be a corporation constantly providing -- for free -- updates and even support if your car gets into an accident or stuck. That doesn't really make sense from a business perspective.
It's not a unreasonable cost for development but also maintenance of the self driving system.
That is basically what the Heritage Foundation wants to do.
In theoretical sense sure.
In a practical sense? They are invulnerable due to what can be extreme financial obstacles they can put in place. They can drag a court case out until you fold if you haven't found a lawyer willing to do it on contigency.
My other stance, which I suspect is probably more controversial, is that I'm not convinced that mental health care is nearly as effective as people think. In general, mental health outcomes for teens are getting markedly worse, and it's not for lack of access. We have more mental health access than we've had previously -- it just doesn't feel like it because the demand has risen even more sharply.
On a personal level, I've been quite depressed lately, and also feeling quite isolated. As part of an attempt to get out of my own shell I mentioned this to a friend. Now, my friend is totally well-intended, and I don't begrudge him whatsoever. But, the first response out of his mouth was whether I'd sought professional mental health care. His response really hurt. I need meaningful social connection. I don't need a licensed professional to charge me money to talk about my childhood. I think a lot of people are lost and lonely, and for many people mental health care is a band-aid over a real crisis of isolation and despair.
I'm not recommending against people seeking mental health care, of course. And, despite my claims there are many people who truly need it, and truly benefit from it. But I don't think it's the unalloyed good that many people seem to believe it to be.
There's also the elephant in the room that mental healthcare, in particular for teens will probably just be compensating for the disease that is social media addiction. Australia has the right idea, banning social media for all goods.
At this point, I make value judgments when folks use AI for their writing, and will continue to do so.
But now people are vomiting chatgpt responses instead of linking to chatgpt.
They quite literally have settings to disable that. There are no ads in the operating system.
https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/tv/atvb66239fa1/tvos
I'm sure some conspiratorial thinking would lead people to the conclusion that Apple are secretly tracking and selling data. There is no evidence to suggest this is happening.
It's probably the next best thing to setting up your own linux home theater PC. But that comes with trade-offs with UX and DRM blocking 4K streaming apps and lack of Dolby Vision playback.
Apple in their privacy policy reserves the right to use your data for ads. They aren't secretly tracking, they are telling you so.
But it's no different than Google, who also doesn't sell your data. Just mining it to target ads.