It’s the same in many fields. Trainees learn by doing the easy, repetitive work that can now be automated.

It seems like Vision Pro allows selective focusing.

Is there a reason you don’t just get a joint bank account (or credit card)? Put equal amounts in each month and use that for all shared expenses. Zero effort, totally fair.

What does that ~70% refer to? Japan is about 5% of Apple’s global revenue and iOS is installed on around 50% of Japanese phones.

It’s not being sold off. It’s an investment. Raspberry Pi has suffered from supply shortages that could be mitigated by entering into a partnership with Arm — and which would help further its charitable goals. Sales were down by more than a quarter in 2022 due to shortages.

And Arm isn’t the only minority shareholder. Sony, which manufactures its boards in Wales, also owns a stake.

These aren’t unusual commercial decisions to secure manufacturing and supply, and therefore maximise the dividend it pays to the foundation, while retaining majority control.

Your data isn’t just being sold to advertisers. There are all kinds of companies that are willing to pay big bucks to get near real-time insights into consumer behaviour, prices, manufacturing and anything else that can be tracked somehow.

Edit: And there’s a near 0% chance that you’re not part of a dataset that’s being sold to someone, somewhere…

Tech just isn’t his expertise.

Mehta has been described as an avid fan of hip hop music. In a 2015 copyright case regarding the similarity of two songs, Mehta noted in a footnote that he was "not a ‘lay person’ when it comes to hip-hop music and lyrics,” and noted he has “listened to hip hop for decades”. American rappers Jay-Z, Eminem, Kanye West and Canadian rapper Drake are among his favorite artists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Mehta

It wasn’t just Fukushima. There was a massive flood in Thailand at the same time that shut down a load of suppliers. It was a really bad bit of luck but they did learn from that.

Narwhal still works for those on iOS.

And was one of the least successful S series phones.

• Data snorter
• Empathy taster

It’s even worse than that. X is used so widely in trademarks that it’s guaranteed to attract lawsuits. Facebook had to settle several claims over the change to Meta, and the use of X is a much bigger problem than that. And Musk is so dumb that he’ll probably try to fight them and end up paying a fortune in legal fees anyway.

Edit: Relevant article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/problem-with-x-meta-microsoft-hundreds-more-own-trademarks-new-twitter-name-2023-07-25/

The Real Engineering video used as an example here is excellent.

The class action lawsuits come thick and fast as soon as a company goes public. It’s like putting a giant “kick me” sign on your ass.

Would be better if it was spammed with pics of Lemmy from Motörhead.

Just to be clear, Apple isn’t asking the Swiss apple growers to change their logo. And it definitely isn’t forcing them.

I assmue some journalist saw Apple making a very boring Swiss trademark application and decided to call up a local company with an apple in its logo to see what they thought about it. There’s zero chance the company will have to re-brand.

The US apple industry uses an apple logo without any problem: https://usapple.org/

There’s some truth to this. Apple did used to mean basically any fruit. That’s where we get “pineapple” in English. The Dutch call oranges “Chinese apples” and the French call potatoes “ground apples”. Any new fruit or vegetable that came along was basically just some kind of apple. So I think Apple might have a case here.