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Buy an AppleTV box and don't connect the TV to WiFi.

Roku's hardware business is only 10% of their revenue now. The vast majority of their income comes from their FAST streaming service, which they promote heavily on their devices.

They haven't been platform agnostic for a while now. Swapping out one streaming owner for another really isn't going to move the needle much.

You could just not use it.

This is a software keynote, they very rarely talk hardware at WWDC

They're basically the retirement home for once-good apps and services who still serve a dwindling core audience but are not longer growing or even a real contender in their field.

Apple has historically always been about pushing devs forwards and dropping support for legacy systems.

Their attitude has been "we built new hardware, we built new software, we have the tools to develop for these new systems, adapt or die".

This Rosetta 2 transition is actually a couple years longer that their first PPC -> Intel transition. There's more time to adapt this go around.

Then you're missing the point.

The point was "talk to another human about shared experiences, whatever that may be".

Because they want something they know that resembles the old Google Search which DDG provides.

Using your phone on a train would be hopping from tower to tower. Going to be swapping IPs endlessly.

That is incredibly weird, yes.

It's a picture of a blind person. The type of person these features are for.

Yeah if you look at the power tool industry as a whole, over the last 20 years has seen massive improvements in quality across the board.

Cordless tools were a niche product, they could barely run an hour and they didn't have 1/10th the power a corded tool does. Things like cordless angle grinders didn't even exist because there was no way to get the required power to drive them.

You also have the advent of brushless tools recently which drive even more power to cordless tools. Smaller, lighter, more power and longer runtime. You put a cheap 18v Ryobi driver against an all metal housing Craftsman corded from the 80s, that cheap plastic Ryobi will outclass that Craftsman every time.

Some brands have risen and fallen. What's happened to Porter Cable is a shame. But conversely, how completely competitive a brand like Ryobi has gotten is also a near miracle. It's a great time for power tools!

3 verified failures out of 173 total cars is an extremely bad rate for the automotive industry.

Costco derives the majority of their revenue from the membership fee, followed by services. They actually make very little on the products themselves as they have a hard cap on markups at like 11% or something around there.

The membership is the whole reason they can offer the deals they do.

I was about to say, this type of automated domain purchasing and deployment is a godsend to scammers.

They buy up a bunch of .top, .shop and .xyz domains for $1 each. They spam them out in in all those "USPS tracking" spam text and Facebook fake store ads. The shelf life on these domains is a few days at best before they get shut down, now you can automate domain rotation and not have to pause your spam campaigns.

The money isn't going to Del Monte, it's going to their suppliers. The ones who lost money when Del Monte closed.

> I don’t get it, do US citizens prefer being defrauded over what is perceived as a slight inconvenience?

Do you think we are requesting to have less secure payment methods or something?

No, we don't "prefer to get defrauded", but things like this are a matter of negotiation between the card issuers and the merchants.

They pretty much still only have a "Good -> Better -> Best" ladder for the majority of their products, with a handful of "niche" offerings sprinkled in. Complexity hasn't increased much from those days, they added one extra column and row

iPhone: iPhone 17e -> iPhone 17 -> iPhone 17 Pro (Niche: iPhone Air)

iPad: iPad -> iPad Air - > iPad Pro (Niche: iPad Mini)

Mac Laptop: Macbook Neo -> Macbook Air -> Macbook Pro

Mac Desktop: Mac Mini -> iMac -> Mac Studio

They have product with different screen sizes, but those are really just configuration options on the base product in that tier, now. Compare that to offerings from Samsung or Dell and you can see it could be much, much more complicated.

Apple Maps is pretty fantastic

> Few new products were launched, and those that were had mixed success.

Tim oversaw the launch of the Apple Watch, Airpods, Airtags, Apple Pay, the Beats acquisition (which lead to Apple Music) and the launch of the M series chips.

He's had quite a few product launches under his belt, many of them company-defining products.

Apple is obsessed with minimalism so much that they refuse to hire any CEOs with first names longer than a single syllable.

Apple Watch and Airpods are two of the largest consumer product launches of the last 10 years and they're both post-Jobs.

I mean yeah, the same way an iPhone is a rearranged Macbook in a smaller case with a smaller battery.

People want a laptop that has

- Great battery life

- Solid build quality

- A familiar interface (iPhone is the most popular OS in the US)

- Good enough speed and snappiness for the tasks they can't do on their phone

- Can walk into Costco or buy online at Amazon without having to hunt for deals or refurbs

- Is from a brand they are familiar with and has an association with quality.

- Is somewhere around $500-$800, the most common price range for laptops today

The MacBook Neo ticks all those boxes, and it comes in fun colors. It's the one you can walk into a store, buy, not really sweat the speeds and feeds and know you will have a pretty great experience with. I'm not sure why so many people are having a hard time understanding this.

The vast majority of red light tickets are people not coming to a complete stop behind the line on right turns on red.

What part did they find "terrifying"?

Do you have your adblocker on?

The video is simply a small form of content that they can run video pre-roll ads on. There's like 3 or 4 total on the site, all many years old at this point. The only reason they exist is to fulfill a specific type of advertising method on the site.

If you turn off your adblocker you'll see what I mean.

For people, new to the Mac (which make up half of all Mac sales), who don't go hunting for refurbs or want to buy used gear, and where a $1099 price point is cost prohibitive.

Basically every regular computer user who shops at Amazon or Costco.

Why is that confusing? The A chip is cheaper, hence is goes into their cheaper laptop. The more expensive laptops get the more expensive M chips.

Exactly, every older person I've seen has the Plus model (RIP) with screen text turned up to 150%. A small screen for someone with poor eyesight sounds like torture.