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The world works in more absolute terms for the autistic brain.

That is one of the operating modes of someone with Autism.

1. Everyone does this!

2. I’m the only person who does this!

Man, sometimes watching the visualisations was better than using the computer.

Also, watching the disk defrag.

….how did it take me 35 years to question if I had autism?

Part of the issue with this approach is that you essentially get to something like a karma system, where well known developers are pushed to the top.

This is something Valve just spent a lot of time and effort to undo, so small, new indie devs get as much storefront space as the veterans.

We have polluted the ground so thoroughly that it is no longer useful to us. How could this have happened?

The latest marketing campaign is just an evolution of the last one.

“Our next model can code!”

“Our next model makes coders obsolete!”

“Our next model is super scary!”

“Our next model is too good to release to the general public!”

“Our next model is hacking websites!”

But companies get treated like individuals when it comes to free speech and giving money to political campaigns.

Seems like double dipping

Also, Apple was kinda dull under Cook.

Which is a weird thing to say when you have big swings like the Vision Pro. But the phones pads and watches really played it safe.

Or, as is the case with my Samsung monitor, they have Bluetooth always on.

Conjecture: This, I believe, is so it can find and talk to other Samsung devices that ARE connected to the internet and phone home.

At this point I’d settle for 5cm, if it helped prices at all.

“YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BREAK THE MONOPOLY! NOT JOIN THEM!”

5 years from now.

The cynic in me is thinking this was an intentional marketing ploy.

1. Price too high
2. Outlets, outraged by the price talk about the features of the phone in detail, questioning how can this hardware cost cost so much
3. Lower the price to your original (but secret) intent.
4. Outlets now talk about how much more reasonable that is, how nice of the company to listen!

You get 2 rounds of media attention for the price of one.

Maybe. But if Rockstar hold firm this could be the beginning (middle?) of the end for physical retail.

Probably cheaper to play the fine.

Ooh, that’s good.

Don’t forget about all the non-consentual nudes and CSAM

You gotta sell your friends and/or fam on it, though

Look, we can’t have TVs that last 15 years anymore!

We need to keep people buying every year or two. Otherwise line not go up! Don’t you understand that this is about protecting The Economy?!

Waow, look at all the money we saved with layoffs. Buy our stock!

Waow, look at all the growth we’re experiencing, we have to hire more developers. Buy our stock!

Of course, not all the companies survive and now there’s decreased competition, so we can shove prices up a little bit further