Lets think about other recent vapid silicon valley cycles: app economy, social, messaging, sharing economy.
Exactly how many of these changed the world?
App economy - people churning out bad games designed to prey on suckers
Social - while a few sites survived every beneficial use of social graphs failed leaving only sleazy actors like Cambridge Analytica
Messaging - still irrelevant, no western company managed to replicate the Asian market where messaging apps became platforms (probably because those apps started before smart phones)
Sharing economy - not actually sharing, taxis with apps behaving badly and short term rentals crowding out the market and causing disturbances
AI - not actually AI, so far deployed in a haphazard fashion with two companies (Tesla & Uber) causing deaths, and one of these companies continually points the finger at the victims.
Has anyone ever said that? Everyone I've seen points out that the issue is Tesla has no experience building at scale and has had issues with QA / consistency on their existing lines.
Sure, the processor chips will be one of the major brands, but having custom production runs for other makers, franchises, etc is bread-&-butter work for many manufacturing facilities. This is particularly true for many foreign manufacturers.
What? They are literally just installing software and slapping a sticker on existing sager & clevo laptops today and have referred to them as custom.
Its not just Cannes, the Oscars also has rules requiring a theatrical release. There are three ways I see this changing - (1) Netflix, Amazon et al. shower money on a struggling name-brand festival or (2) a streaming platform manages to release something that causes a public outcry for not being considered, or (3) the theatre industry completely crashes and burns in the USA. Perhaps #1 is most likely?
Maybe I'm alone, but its felt to me that increasingly the large tech companies have created internal structures which have resulted in their inability to execute on a product and see it to completion - to great fanfare they release half-baked products but never seem to complete, polish or iterate on them.
Pure speculation - they're rewarding employee that work on new products to a greater degree than existing ones which results in people skipping from project to project.
I think the HDD company could legitimately point at that as being the cause of a failure. This is true on cars also, massive changes to the engine could void the warranty - or at least put the customer in the position where they'd need a court case where the manufacturer demonstrated that it could be reasonably determined as the cause.
They "printed" concrete forms that you can readily buy that snap together like legos. Hard to see how moving giant spools of filament and large industrial 3d printer(s) to a job site can be more effective both from a cost and time perspective than simply buying them.
For years they've often made claims that their hardware was custom - in short, I won't believe them until they actually ship something that isn't from an OEM.
Its hard to see what they will actually be doing to "manufacturer" computers when its generally known their laptops have all been designed and built by other companies like Clevo.
Despite my criticisms of Tim Cook using Apple as his personal political platform, he and the company been vocal advocates of user privacy and rights. Compared to the rest of Silicon Valley and how they view users, Apple has been truly fantastic.
This is marketing retcon, there is a reason that all the silicon valley press started talking about Apple being the privacy company simultaneously. It conveniently overlooks the long period where Apple provided no information about what an applications used.
More over, Apple has consistently used misleading statements about the encryption used on products, e.g. messaging.
The problem is that none of the traffic shaping that ISPs have engaged in has ever been about latency. In every case the ISPs have been throttling traffic they didn't like, or as a way to blackmail companies like Netflix into paying their vigorish.
I wonder more about the cost of the screen - knowing nothing about LCD manufacturing wouldn't the complexity of a weird shaped screen increase the cost in a non-trivial way?
Did they invent bike sharing? No, clearly not. But they figured out how to do it on such an immense scale that it has changed society there.
I don't believe china figured out a magical formula for it - its more that its filling a void that no longer exists in the west. Our societies are already heavily setup for cars and public transport which has left limited need for bicycle sharing. Probably would have been great for my grandfather 80-years ago.
For bicycles in particular we also have an issue with drivers not being used to having bicycles on the road and often believe they don't have a right to be there making it dangerous.
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Yahoo hasn't been a successful business in 15-years.
Lets think about other recent vapid silicon valley cycles: app economy, social, messaging, sharing economy.
Exactly how many of these changed the world?
App economy - people churning out bad games designed to prey on suckers
Social - while a few sites survived every beneficial use of social graphs failed leaving only sleazy actors like Cambridge Analytica
Messaging - still irrelevant, no western company managed to replicate the Asian market where messaging apps became platforms (probably because those apps started before smart phones)
Sharing economy - not actually sharing, taxis with apps behaving badly and short term rentals crowding out the market and causing disturbances
AI - not actually AI, so far deployed in a haphazard fashion with two companies (Tesla & Uber) causing deaths, and one of these companies continually points the finger at the victims.
Efficiency doesn't necessarily correlate with lower emissions.
Has anyone ever said that? Everyone I've seen points out that the issue is Tesla has no experience building at scale and has had issues with QA / consistency on their existing lines.
Sure, the processor chips will be one of the major brands, but having custom production runs for other makers, franchises, etc is bread-&-butter work for many manufacturing facilities. This is particularly true for many foreign manufacturers.
What? They are literally just installing software and slapping a sticker on existing sager & clevo laptops today and have referred to them as custom.
Usually these automated systems are designed to disconnect when they detect voicemail.
Maybe it would be if Samsung didn't ship their own version of every single piece of software on the phone.
Its not just Cannes, the Oscars also has rules requiring a theatrical release. There are three ways I see this changing - (1) Netflix, Amazon et al. shower money on a struggling name-brand festival or (2) a streaming platform manages to release something that causes a public outcry for not being considered, or (3) the theatre industry completely crashes and burns in the USA. Perhaps #1 is most likely?
Or.... someone that recognizes that technology buzzwords like 3d printing doesn't make something interesting or useful.
Like your inability to respond to the actual subject of the article?
Evidently you're unable to think for yourself - the point is that it seems unnecessary because the tech giants can't execute on new ideas.
Maybe I'm alone, but its felt to me that increasingly the large tech companies have created internal structures which have resulted in their inability to execute on a product and see it to completion - to great fanfare they release half-baked products but never seem to complete, polish or iterate on them.
Pure speculation - they're rewarding employee that work on new products to a greater degree than existing ones which results in people skipping from project to project.
I think the HDD company could legitimately point at that as being the cause of a failure. This is true on cars also, massive changes to the engine could void the warranty - or at least put the customer in the position where they'd need a court case where the manufacturer demonstrated that it could be reasonably determined as the cause.
They "printed" concrete forms that you can readily buy that snap together like legos. Hard to see how moving giant spools of filament and large industrial 3d printer(s) to a job site can be more effective both from a cost and time perspective than simply buying them.
For years they've often made claims that their hardware was custom - in short, I won't believe them until they actually ship something that isn't from an OEM.
Its hard to see what they will actually be doing to "manufacturer" computers when its generally known their laptops have all been designed and built by other companies like Clevo.
No it does not void the warranty, most jurisdictions have laws that make voiding the warranty if the product is repaired illegal.
Here is a link for the USA - https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
Despite my criticisms of Tim Cook using Apple as his personal political platform, he and the company been vocal advocates of user privacy and rights. Compared to the rest of Silicon Valley and how they view users, Apple has been truly fantastic.
This is marketing retcon, there is a reason that all the silicon valley press started talking about Apple being the privacy company simultaneously. It conveniently overlooks the long period where Apple provided no information about what an applications used.
More over, Apple has consistently used misleading statements about the encryption used on products, e.g. messaging.
Actually, many game companies have had issues with ISPs throttling 'bittorrent'.
How is this in anyway different than what I said? The ISPs don't like BT which is why they throttle it, it has nothing to do with latency.
Yep, I flagged this as Stale for this reason :(
The problem is that none of the traffic shaping that ISPs have engaged in has ever been about latency. In every case the ISPs have been throttling traffic they didn't like, or as a way to blackmail companies like Netflix into paying their vigorish.
I wonder more about the cost of the screen - knowing nothing about LCD manufacturing wouldn't the complexity of a weird shaped screen increase the cost in a non-trivial way?
Silicon Valley circle jerk - just look at Google dropping the headphone jack.
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Didn't they already do that - their phones bent if kept in pockets.....
Did they invent bike sharing? No, clearly not. But they figured out how to do it on such an immense scale that it has changed society there.
I don't believe china figured out a magical formula for it - its more that its filling a void that no longer exists in the west. Our societies are already heavily setup for cars and public transport which has left limited need for bicycle sharing. Probably would have been great for my grandfather 80-years ago.
For bicycles in particular we also have an issue with drivers not being used to having bicycles on the road and often believe they don't have a right to be there making it dangerous.