I generally agree about what seemed to happen and disappointment that the car didn't appear to react at all. I do doubt that human reaction time would have actually engaged the brake pedal in time to slow down before the car touched the player.
People do tend to have greater reverence for things during their formative years. However I will say that easily technology has obviously progressed, but in terms of creative endeavors, there's a lot of room for different dominant expressions. For example, if you were a fan of the adventure game genre, then you would really like the 90s. Similarly for space flight sims, it faded out. If you wanted an over the top action shooter, for a while there games started taking realism too seriously. Same for music, there's some good music from before I was born, and I would say some of the worst music was when I was a teenager, and music that dominated later was pretty good.
The other thing is who dominates the information outlet. Up until the mid 90s, the business-for-business sake folks didn't really sink their teeth into the industry, and it was dominated by people who were in it because they wanted it. Nowadays there are a lot of people in it to get money drowning out the continued substantive advancements.
The same sort of stuff is happening, but business has a better handle on marketing, press releases and so on.
So there's a lot of do-nothing 'advances' that clog the tech media drowning out true innovation. It creates a lot of cynicism to see so many hollow articles impersonating innovation, but it's just promoters dominating what you see better than they ever have before.
1) Does being forced to play violent games make a random mature person violent? I don't think anyone was thinking it would, but this study suggests what most people believe.
2) Do people who have an inclination toward violent behavior also tend to like these games in any useful indicator? Probably not, the sample size of video game players is so high compared to the actual violent offenders. While it may be the case that violent people like these games, there are so many more non-violent people who indulge.
3) Do developing youths become more violent as a result of video games? I think that's the key question people wonder about. I think there are plenty of people who have not been made particularly worse by video games. Maybe it *could* contribute to someone getting more violent, but it seems the probability is low.
4) Do video games help refine violent skills? Pretty sure the answer, if anything, is to make those skills worse (they tend to try to make the player feel like it's realistic, but make the player feel awesome by succeeding by cheating for them... a lot).
Keep in mind, while things are more graphic and gory than pre-video games, kids have long been playing 'chase each other and pretend to kill each other' games. Whether it's been 'cops and robbers' or presumably 'knights and knaves'.
The realism of aiming with a mouse or worse yet, a joypad.
Even in Oculus touch games that have you actually 'aim', generally there's a lot of auto-aim going on.
No, the games are designed for people to have fun and *feel* like they are better than they are (because requiring the same precision as real world would just be tiresome).
They are designed to *seem* real but not at all be useful.
The thing is, I don't see many destination chargers yet, that would constitute 'network' (at least in US). It's currently a curiosity for some places to set up to seem 'progressive' as almost a novelty rather than a boring 'yeah, people should need this'.
If I were on a long trip, as it stands there's a large probability if I needed to avail myself of a supercharger station, I might have to go to a station that's 20 miles off the route, adding optimistically 40 minutes to a trip even if it were an *instant* charge. I'll also have to carefully plan that stop, contrast with a gasoline capable car, where infrastructure is that I can be completely oblivious to my fuel level until a warning comes up and then start thinking 'I should stop when I see a gas station along the way'.
There are useful scenarios for BEV, and home charging is a wonderful improvement, but we can't pretend for a moment that any half-measure (hybrid/phev) is proven to be obsoleted by proof of the 'massive' tesla charging network.
they want something simple that they can maintain and fix themselves.
That ship has pretty much sailed a long time ago. You can do a lot, but some things are just out of reach. Basically everything you can maintain/fix yourself in a pure ICE drivetrain, is pretty much applicable to a hybrid drivetrain.
PHEV are a pretty good compromise given today's battery technology and lack of charging infrastructure, and even plain hybrids are valuable to recoup all that energy lost to braking.
Massive? I just checked, there's exactly 1 Tesla supercharger within a 50 mile radius of me.
There are, however, 7 gas stations within a 2 mile radius.
That is an *incredible* gap to close. Yes, home charging means a lot less need, but it's also the case that relatively low volume is the only reason that current charging facilities are barely livable for current owners. I have a friend with a PHEV, and anywhere vaguely near an outlet is occupied by a BEV/PHEV already, so he almost always is on gasoline since he has to charge at home only. When he got it 6 years ago, he could generally plug in, but already there are too many BEVs for charging infrastructure despite being relatively rare.
Note that almost every new car is a SiruxXM subscriber. More than half of their subscribers are likely the trial subscribers from new car purchases.
Beyond that, despite never haven given them a dime, they have frequently given me new free trials.
At least in my car, the audio quality is crap for satellite radio, compared to HD radio or a streaming service. Even if I liked the programming, the quality would have killed it for me.
I don't think the companies behind broadcast TV are in trouble, though I do see broadcast TV as a medium declining.
In broadcast radio, the record labels asserted control over the content, and as such broadcast radio companies were not particularly advantaged to compete with streaming companies.
The broadcast televesion networks, conversely, fund and own most of the content. This is the same model Netflix, Hulu, Amazon are transitioning to: being masters of their destinies, as the broadcast networks are starting to compete with and undermine the streaming vendors when they rely upon the broadcast company programming.
Additionally, last time I was there, it was a big store... with very little in it. I was amazed how they had pretty much none of the toys my kid was looking for.
To be honest, that's not a terrible strategy to begin programming. Get a feel and understanding up front for some of the fundamentals before letting an IDE do it for you. I've run into too many folks that can't make a simple C program and compile it, without making it a project.
As it moves up, there are a variety of IDEs in the world, and it would be wise to have curriculum ensure exposure to them in diverse ways. A curriculum that produces good well rounded professionals should have the users adept at using an IDE, not having an IDE, and being able to be relatively comfortable in a variety of languages on a variety of platforms. However a large chunk of candidates we interview got degrees from places that MS pretty much bought the whole curriculum, and the idea of doing development without Visual Studio and/or for a non-Windows platform terrified them.
Guess I should say Raspbian is not the only game in town, since the hardware and firmware platform can support aarch64 distros. Still I'd say other hardware platforms are a better for accomplishing whatever you are trying to do given your gripe.
If you are trying to ingest more than 2GB of data on a Pi hosted mongodb, then you have bigger problems than lack of 64 bit capability.
The Pi is not the only game in town, there are alternatives with beefier CPUs. To me frankly the biggest thing Pi did was prove there was a viable market and encouraged some more entrants to the 'embedded scale, but not custom' market.
For one, gigabit means that you could in theory get nearly half a gigabit, which is still higher than 100 mbit.
For another, and this is rare, there do exist network switches in the world that do not negotiate lower than 1 gigabit. I've only seen one model from one vendor so far that did this, and I think that product flopped in part due to inability to handle 100 mbit, but if I've seen one, there's probably more.
Finally, it may not be possible to get a 100 mbit NIC anymore, or at least do so and get any savings out of it. It's like in embedded you have flash parts that are 80% empty, because the cheapest flash parts are now still 4x the size some of these applications need.
I recall back in college, a professor said 'ok, we aren't going to use this, but I'm required to give each of you a copy of visual studio, so here you go'.
This is a huge reason to be wary of the various 'corporation wants to "help" teach computing' situation. All those free/extreme discount student licenses? Well the first hit is free.
Cheaper was not the only, or even necessarily the primary reason.
Intel forgot the whole reason they ultimately dominated the market: backwards compatibility. Every product launch, no matter how revolutionary had a *massive* catalog of functional software to go with it.
Intel had enough hubris to think they could spin up an ecosystem from scratch. AMD proved that to be an incorrect strategy.
Also, the chips were plagued with performance issues, promiment among them was placing more demand on memory bandwidth than x86 counterparts. AMD's opteron sported massive memory bandwidth *and* less relative demand on the memory subsystem.
This was also about the same time Intel was screwing over the consumer market with the Netburst architecture. It's probably a good thing that Intel had their eyes on Itanium and let AMD define the archtecture. *At the time* Intel's engineering was a mess. Their engineering got better and now are very formidable in the CPU, but around 2000, Intel's engineering was woefully bad.
Note that they did a really good jobs in motorola of convenience of 'plugging' them together.
No removing covers, very good magnetic guiding, a connector that is very robust and forgiving. you basically do just slap them together.
Also, while some mods (the 'vital' and the camera come to mind) are physically awkward enough that you'd only want to attach on demand, most other mods can just sit there and not be much of a detriment (the battery mods, obviously the case mods, even the projector mod is sleek enough to not be too notciable in the hand, despite it's relative bulk).
The moto z vehicle dock has been a fantastic improvement for vehicle use. I get the phone in the general vicinity and it snaps itself into place and gets charging. Previously physically mourning my phone meant carefully holding it in the right position and then triggering the utterly generic snapping mechnism to hold the phone, being careful not to hit the volume or power buttons. Sure, I don't *need* to so constantly charge, but so long as it's essentially a 'free' action, I figure why not.
On the keyboard, personally my experience is that the form factor can't allow for anything but thumbs, and using only my thumbs on a physical keyboard will continue to frustrate. The limitations also force really awkward access to many of the shell significant strokes, the on screen keyboard of JuiceSSH or similar provides more relevant key strokes. Maybe others have better experiences, but foor me the 'gesture typing' in a touchscreen offsets the form factor, though useless for ssh and such.
One example for the projector, lying in bed and projecting onto the ceiling. It'd be *nice* if it were higher res, but for most video it's not noticable. The low lumens is a bigger factor holding back quality. It is however nice for celiling projection.
The biggest flaws with the camera mod are the limited video resolution (no 4k) and the fact that you can buy point and shoot camera for about that much that are better. Being a phone mod doesn't really help that much for cost savings or convenience (it's bulky enough to make it an unpleasant experience).
Batteries, docks, the VR headest allegedly coming out, those are interesting to me. I have a daydream headset for my phone and it's already pretty solid. I'd love the more precise fit of the mod connection, and the camera being exposed may open up opportunites.
I'm really hoping that the alleged Z3 with the more sleek and modern look will make it enough of a market success to bring sanity to the mod ecosystem in terms of selection and pricing. I also hope they do a btter jobs than the Z2 shattershield with respect to things like a peeling screen. All that said, I really do enjoy my Z2 force.
I have the projector, it's a fun low quality video things in certain scenarios. However, I would not have paid the exorbitant price for it.
I did try the camera, but don't have it. It costs too much and the inability to do 4k recording seems a curious limitation. For the price you can get a dedicated camera. If it cost $99 and did 4k, I would think it a good value for people who want a decent phone camera.
I don't have an opinion of the game controller. I've always hated games on the platform because they have to cater to touch, and the presence of game controllers is not ubiquitous enough to drive game design.
There's also the "Vital" mod, which is pretty stupid. Lot of awkwardness due to the form factor, and utterly pointless compared to wireless trackers.
The speaker mods seem relatively sane, relatively cheap and easier than a bluetooth speaker, but the bluetooth speakers are hard to compete with there.
The physical keyboard mod might be nice for some. After initially thinking I'd want a physical keyboard and starting my smartphone situation with a hardware keyboard and then moving to touchscreen, I realized there was no way a keyboard that small would work well for me, and the touchscnreen swype typing was better for how I used the phone.
Batteries and the vehicle dock are the biggest slam dunks. Swappable battery is now easier than even current 'swappable batteries' (no cover to remove). The vehicle dock could do with more varied mount install options, but the concept is pretty good. I wish for a non-vehicle mount for my nightstand, the benefits of wireless chargin (much easier connect/disconnect) but with the charge speed that comes with actual metal pin to metal pin contact.
If the android OS were more sutied for desktop, I'd like a more full fledged docking station.
He said they have been dormant, because usually testing them creates problematic debris in orbit. He is proposing that as it descends further, it might be a chance to use them for something useful and also not have extra debris in orbit.
Because users are getting buzz about the new IiOS, the new android version, Windows has to have it too. Except MS is lacking in imagination and just calls everything 'Windows 10' and 'Creators Update', so they have no distinguishing branding to go with the hype they try to generate.
To be honest' modern windows never actually goes to sleep anymore, it does 'S0ix' and to the chagrin of linux users particularly, is causing vendors to stop supporting S3.
The plus side: applications can now run even when ostensibly off.
The downside (even for windows): Your laptop can no longer sleep for a week and still have battery to resume. You *will* be resuming from hibernation after a weekend.
This is to compete with phones, which also don't have a real 'sleep' and are always alive and don't have as high standby time as they used to, despite gigantic batteries.
It's a marketing move to suck up to their users and make them feel like they are innovators who move things forward, and in support of that self-image, they need a platform suited for content creation, which phones are not.
In other words 'if you matter, then you need a computer, please put down that phone that we have zero market share in'.
The reason it can't threaten Windows is insurmountable momentum in the desktop software ecosystem, not due to technological deficit through lack of leadership.
In terms of developing for an OS and using an OS, I would *easily* take a modern linux distro over Windows. In terms of software support, well that's why I'm stuck with Windows, and why business makes me write software for Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
I generally agree about what seemed to happen and disappointment that the car didn't appear to react at all. I do doubt that human reaction time would have actually engaged the brake pedal in time to slow down before the car touched the player.
People do tend to have greater reverence for things during their formative years. However I will say that easily technology has obviously progressed, but in terms of creative endeavors, there's a lot of room for different dominant expressions. For example, if you were a fan of the adventure game genre, then you would really like the 90s. Similarly for space flight sims, it faded out. If you wanted an over the top action shooter, for a while there games started taking realism too seriously. Same for music, there's some good music from before I was born, and I would say some of the worst music was when I was a teenager, and music that dominated later was pretty good.
The other thing is who dominates the information outlet. Up until the mid 90s, the business-for-business sake folks didn't really sink their teeth into the industry, and it was dominated by people who were in it because they wanted it. Nowadays there are a lot of people in it to get money drowning out the continued substantive advancements.
The same sort of stuff is happening, but business has a better handle on marketing, press releases and so on.
So there's a lot of do-nothing 'advances' that clog the tech media drowning out true innovation. It creates a lot of cynicism to see so many hollow articles impersonating innovation, but it's just promoters dominating what you see better than they ever have before.
1) Does being forced to play violent games make a random mature person violent? I don't think anyone was thinking it would, but this study suggests what most people believe.
2) Do people who have an inclination toward violent behavior also tend to like these games in any useful indicator? Probably not, the sample size of video game players is so high compared to the actual violent offenders. While it may be the case that violent people like these games, there are so many more non-violent people who indulge.
3) Do developing youths become more violent as a result of video games? I think that's the key question people wonder about. I think there are plenty of people who have not been made particularly worse by video games. Maybe it *could* contribute to someone getting more violent, but it seems the probability is low.
4) Do video games help refine violent skills? Pretty sure the answer, if anything, is to make those skills worse (they tend to try to make the player feel like it's realistic, but make the player feel awesome by succeeding by cheating for them... a lot).
Keep in mind, while things are more graphic and gory than pre-video games, kids have long been playing 'chase each other and pretend to kill each other' games. Whether it's been 'cops and robbers' or presumably 'knights and knaves'.
The realism of aiming with a mouse or worse yet, a joypad.
Even in Oculus touch games that have you actually 'aim', generally there's a lot of auto-aim going on.
No, the games are designed for people to have fun and *feel* like they are better than they are (because requiring the same precision as real world would just be tiresome).
They are designed to *seem* real but not at all be useful.
The thing is, I don't see many destination chargers yet, that would constitute 'network' (at least in US). It's currently a curiosity for some places to set up to seem 'progressive' as almost a novelty rather than a boring 'yeah, people should need this'.
If I were on a long trip, as it stands there's a large probability if I needed to avail myself of a supercharger station, I might have to go to a station that's 20 miles off the route, adding optimistically 40 minutes to a trip even if it were an *instant* charge. I'll also have to carefully plan that stop, contrast with a gasoline capable car, where infrastructure is that I can be completely oblivious to my fuel level until a warning comes up and then start thinking 'I should stop when I see a gas station along the way'.
There are useful scenarios for BEV, and home charging is a wonderful improvement, but we can't pretend for a moment that any half-measure (hybrid/phev) is proven to be obsoleted by proof of the 'massive' tesla charging network.
they want something simple that they can maintain and fix themselves.
That ship has pretty much sailed a long time ago. You can do a lot, but some things are just out of reach. Basically everything you can maintain/fix yourself in a pure ICE drivetrain, is pretty much applicable to a hybrid drivetrain.
PHEV are a pretty good compromise given today's battery technology and lack of charging infrastructure, and even plain hybrids are valuable to recoup all that energy lost to braking.
Massive? I just checked, there's exactly 1 Tesla supercharger within a 50 mile radius of me.
There are, however, 7 gas stations within a 2 mile radius.
That is an *incredible* gap to close. Yes, home charging means a lot less need, but it's also the case that relatively low volume is the only reason that current charging facilities are barely livable for current owners. I have a friend with a PHEV, and anywhere vaguely near an outlet is occupied by a BEV/PHEV already, so he almost always is on gasoline since he has to charge at home only. When he got it 6 years ago, he could generally plug in, but already there are too many BEVs for charging infrastructure despite being relatively rare.
Note that almost every new car is a SiruxXM subscriber. More than half of their subscribers are likely the trial subscribers from new car purchases.
Beyond that, despite never haven given them a dime, they have frequently given me new free trials.
At least in my car, the audio quality is crap for satellite radio, compared to HD radio or a streaming service. Even if I liked the programming, the quality would have killed it for me.
I don't think the companies behind broadcast TV are in trouble, though I do see broadcast TV as a medium declining.
In broadcast radio, the record labels asserted control over the content, and as such broadcast radio companies were not particularly advantaged to compete with streaming companies.
The broadcast televesion networks, conversely, fund and own most of the content. This is the same model Netflix, Hulu, Amazon are transitioning to: being masters of their destinies, as the broadcast networks are starting to compete with and undermine the streaming vendors when they rely upon the broadcast company programming.
Additionally, last time I was there, it was a big store... with very little in it. I was amazed how they had pretty much none of the toys my kid was looking for.
To be honest, that's not a terrible strategy to begin programming. Get a feel and understanding up front for some of the fundamentals before letting an IDE do it for you. I've run into too many folks that can't make a simple C program and compile it, without making it a project.
As it moves up, there are a variety of IDEs in the world, and it would be wise to have curriculum ensure exposure to them in diverse ways. A curriculum that produces good well rounded professionals should have the users adept at using an IDE, not having an IDE, and being able to be relatively comfortable in a variety of languages on a variety of platforms. However a large chunk of candidates we interview got degrees from places that MS pretty much bought the whole curriculum, and the idea of doing development without Visual Studio and/or for a non-Windows platform terrified them.
Guess I should say Raspbian is not the only game in town, since the hardware and firmware platform can support aarch64 distros. Still I'd say other hardware platforms are a better for accomplishing whatever you are trying to do given your gripe.
If you are trying to ingest more than 2GB of data on a Pi hosted mongodb, then you have bigger problems than lack of 64 bit capability.
The Pi is not the only game in town, there are alternatives with beefier CPUs. To me frankly the biggest thing Pi did was prove there was a viable market and encouraged some more entrants to the 'embedded scale, but not custom' market.
For one, gigabit means that you could in theory get nearly half a gigabit, which is still higher than 100 mbit.
For another, and this is rare, there do exist network switches in the world that do not negotiate lower than 1 gigabit. I've only seen one model from one vendor so far that did this, and I think that product flopped in part due to inability to handle 100 mbit, but if I've seen one, there's probably more.
Finally, it may not be possible to get a 100 mbit NIC anymore, or at least do so and get any savings out of it. It's like in embedded you have flash parts that are 80% empty, because the cheapest flash parts are now still 4x the size some of these applications need.
I recall back in college, a professor said 'ok, we aren't going to use this, but I'm required to give each of you a copy of visual studio, so here you go'.
This is a huge reason to be wary of the various 'corporation wants to "help" teach computing' situation. All those free/extreme discount student licenses? Well the first hit is free.
Cheaper was not the only, or even necessarily the primary reason.
Intel forgot the whole reason they ultimately dominated the market: backwards compatibility. Every product launch, no matter how revolutionary had a *massive* catalog of functional software to go with it.
Intel had enough hubris to think they could spin up an ecosystem from scratch. AMD proved that to be an incorrect strategy.
Also, the chips were plagued with performance issues, promiment among them was placing more demand on memory bandwidth than x86 counterparts. AMD's opteron sported massive memory bandwidth *and* less relative demand on the memory subsystem.
This was also about the same time Intel was screwing over the consumer market with the Netburst architecture. It's probably a good thing that Intel had their eyes on Itanium and let AMD define the archtecture. *At the time* Intel's engineering was a mess. Their engineering got better and now are very formidable in the CPU, but around 2000, Intel's engineering was woefully bad.
Note that they did a really good jobs in motorola of convenience of 'plugging' them together.
No removing covers, very good magnetic guiding, a connector that is very robust and forgiving. you basically do just slap them together.
Also, while some mods (the 'vital' and the camera come to mind) are physically awkward enough that you'd only want to attach on demand, most other mods can just sit there and not be much of a detriment (the battery mods, obviously the case mods, even the projector mod is sleek enough to not be too notciable in the hand, despite it's relative bulk).
The moto z vehicle dock has been a fantastic improvement for vehicle use. I get the phone in the general vicinity and it snaps itself into place and gets charging. Previously physically mourning my phone meant carefully holding it in the right position and then triggering the utterly generic snapping mechnism to hold the phone, being careful not to hit the volume or power buttons. Sure, I don't *need* to so constantly charge, but so long as it's essentially a 'free' action, I figure why not.
On the keyboard, personally my experience is that the form factor can't allow for anything but thumbs, and using only my thumbs on a physical keyboard will continue to frustrate. The limitations also force really awkward access to many of the shell significant strokes, the on screen keyboard of JuiceSSH or similar provides more relevant key strokes. Maybe others have better experiences, but foor me the 'gesture typing' in a touchscreen offsets the form factor, though useless for ssh and such.
One example for the projector, lying in bed and projecting onto the ceiling. It'd be *nice* if it were higher res, but for most video it's not noticable. The low lumens is a bigger factor holding back quality. It is however nice for celiling projection.
The biggest flaws with the camera mod are the limited video resolution (no 4k) and the fact that you can buy point and shoot camera for about that much that are better. Being a phone mod doesn't really help that much for cost savings or convenience (it's bulky enough to make it an unpleasant experience).
Batteries, docks, the VR headest allegedly coming out, those are interesting to me. I have a daydream headset for my phone and it's already pretty solid. I'd love the more precise fit of the mod connection, and the camera being exposed may open up opportunites.
I'm really hoping that the alleged Z3 with the more sleek and modern look will make it enough of a market success to bring sanity to the mod ecosystem in terms of selection and pricing. I also hope they do a btter jobs than the Z2 shattershield with respect to things like a peeling screen. All that said, I really do enjoy my Z2 force.
I have the projector, it's a fun low quality video things in certain scenarios. However, I would not have paid the exorbitant price for it.
I did try the camera, but don't have it. It costs too much and the inability to do 4k recording seems a curious limitation. For the price you can get a dedicated camera. If it cost $99 and did 4k, I would think it a good value for people who want a decent phone camera.
I don't have an opinion of the game controller. I've always hated games on the platform because they have to cater to touch, and the presence of game controllers is not ubiquitous enough to drive game design.
There's also the "Vital" mod, which is pretty stupid. Lot of awkwardness due to the form factor, and utterly pointless compared to wireless trackers.
The speaker mods seem relatively sane, relatively cheap and easier than a bluetooth speaker, but the bluetooth speakers are hard to compete with there.
The physical keyboard mod might be nice for some. After initially thinking I'd want a physical keyboard and starting my smartphone situation with a hardware keyboard and then moving to touchscreen, I realized there was no way a keyboard that small would work well for me, and the touchscnreen swype typing was better for how I used the phone.
Batteries and the vehicle dock are the biggest slam dunks. Swappable battery is now easier than even current 'swappable batteries' (no cover to remove). The vehicle dock could do with more varied mount install options, but the concept is pretty good. I wish for a non-vehicle mount for my nightstand, the benefits of wireless chargin (much easier connect/disconnect) but with the charge speed that comes with actual metal pin to metal pin contact.
If the android OS were more sutied for desktop, I'd like a more full fledged docking station.
He said they have been dormant, because usually testing them creates problematic debris in orbit. He is proposing that as it descends further, it might be a chance to use them for something useful and also not have extra debris in orbit.
Because users are getting buzz about the new IiOS, the new android version, Windows has to have it too. Except MS is lacking in imagination and just calls everything 'Windows 10' and 'Creators Update', so they have no distinguishing branding to go with the hype they try to generate.
To be honest' modern windows never actually goes to sleep anymore, it does 'S0ix' and to the chagrin of linux users particularly, is causing vendors to stop supporting S3.
The plus side: applications can now run even when ostensibly off.
The downside (even for windows): Your laptop can no longer sleep for a week and still have battery to resume. You *will* be resuming from hibernation after a weekend.
This is to compete with phones, which also don't have a real 'sleep' and are always alive and don't have as high standby time as they used to, despite gigantic batteries.
It's a marketing move to suck up to their users and make them feel like they are innovators who move things forward, and in support of that self-image, they need a platform suited for content creation, which phones are not.
In other words 'if you matter, then you need a computer, please put down that phone that we have zero market share in'.
The reason it can't threaten Windows is insurmountable momentum in the desktop software ecosystem, not due to technological deficit through lack of leadership.
In terms of developing for an OS and using an OS, I would *easily* take a modern linux distro over Windows. In terms of software support, well that's why I'm stuck with Windows, and why business makes me write software for Windows.