Readit NewsJeffrey A. Singer - A senior fellow at the Cato institute, a republican think tank that receives much of its funding from large republican donors/foundations and corporate donors. I don't know how to sum up the Cato Institute in 2 sentences unfortunately, but their wikipedia says plenty [0].
Josh Bloom - The Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences The American Council on Science and Health, which is a pro industry advocacy group [1] that has received large amounts of money from the agriculture, petroleum, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries as per leaked funding documents in 2012 [2].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Council_on_Science_an...
[2] https://usrtk.org/industry-pr/american-council-on-science-an...
refuses to use git [0]
refuses to take community submissions (except through Stack Overflow? Seems like a misuse of SO) [1]
and refuses to implement .dumps() [2].
He is difficult to work with, and any time I need to debug code that intimately deals with ruamel.yaml types, I wince.
[0] https://github.com/pycontribs/ruyaml/issues/1
And I assume this switch isn't doing some absolutely insane decoding of some common unencrypted audio protocols to 'improve' audio in any way.
As everyone else has already said... what an insane money-grabbing audiophile-abusing product :D
They should have been practically begging oems to embed it.
The M1's and Airpods lineup are absolutely magical. The Apple Watch still sux IMO, but the way they quickly pivoted toward health surprised me and makes me think they get it.
I think Apple's products are better than ever, on the whole.
I don't think we should "break up" Big Tech just because they are successful. That being said, I do think we need to #AbolishImaginaryProperty laws (#EndCopyrights and #EndPatents), and that will make things much better for everyone (minus some lazy shareholders). Those laws are atrocious in every domain, from bigtech to big pharma, and need to go.
I know that getting investment as a small company in the hardware space would be near impossible without patents, because any investor without a brain would see that the giant in your industry could decide to take your idea, design it faster, manufacture it cheaper and sell it to a wider audience in a fraction of the time.
Whereas "within the industry" is exactly the thing I'm talking about: the threshold for getting into more mainstream media is not necessarily related to actual importance and different from what field-specific or even just enthusiast perception focuses on. E.g. the bits and pieces I know about injection molding mostly come from "maker-type" publications that, while of course also talking about 3D printing a lot, also cover entry-level discussions of what happens if you try taking something to larger-scale production - and "forget about your product looking like an Apple product" is high on that list ;)
IM has been the same old IM for the past 5 decades more or less.
I think we're now on the tail end of the hype cycle graph and people are starting to find real uses for FDM
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=ssys+stock (set to max time)