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New comment by fgblanch in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

fgblanch — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 03:30:02 +0000

Now you can

New comment by fgblanch in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

fgblanch — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:23:32 +0000

Anything image related is better interacted with a touchscreen. E.g, Professional photography, Medical imaging.

New comment by fgblanch in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

fgblanch — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:19:34 +0000

I had the same experience. You need both the trackpad and the touchscreen they are complementary and great for different use cases. I've always thought chromebook pixel was a product ahead of its time, and time is confirming it seeing how many later laptops (specially apple) has ended up adopting many of its features.

New comment by fgblanch in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

fgblanch — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:11:15 +0000

Probably a hot take reading the comments, but the touchscreen is great for scrolling and reading vs doing it in the trackpad. If you have the laptop in your lap, the hand and arm position to scroll in the trackpad is very unnatural. Reading/browsing using your thumbs on the screen borders is a great experience. This is even more noticeable if you try to work on planes.

New comment by fgblanch in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

fgblanch — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:18:07 +0000

This video makes a better job at explaining what it is about vs the marketing ones. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by fgblanch in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

fgblanch — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:02:15 +0000

Tell the washing machine. "Washlexa I'm putting my gym clothes in. It was a hard workout I sweated a lot!"

and the washer now knows what to do. No more temp, length, 2nd rinse proxy controls.

New comment by fgblanch in "Om Malik has died"

fgblanch — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:01:45 +0000

My condolences to family and friends. Om writting has always been a reference since Web 2.0 era. Also enjoyed his photographabout friends and travel. Sad news RIP

New comment by fgblanch in "Googlebook"

fgblanch — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:46:02 +0000

Likewise I bought the Chromebook Pixel LS and a Pixelbook during that dark period before M-series laptops and these laptops were awesome and IMO well ahead of their time. The ChromeOS with all its faults was a modern OS without legacy. For example the OS settings are closer to the Phone OS like settings vs MacOS settings that are still a mess these days.

New comment by fgblanch in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

fgblanch — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:52:48 +0000

Commenting just to appreciate this analysis. I totally bought the marketing that this was a small phone, while it seems it just had a small screen.

New comment by fgblanch in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

fgblanch — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:08:10 +0000

Funny enough, in 2023, Asus released a good very close to iphone Mini-size android phone. The asus zenfone 10. https://www.asus.com/us/mobile-handhelds/phones/zenfone/zenf...

Alexa+

fgblanch — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:50:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generative-artificial-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185446

Points: 222

# Comments: 339

Amazon launches Alexa+

fgblanch — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:36:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazon-2025-devices-alexa-event-live-updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185296

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by fgblanch in "Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok"

fgblanch — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:47:37 +0000

I don't know if it would come with the deal, but Bytedance web crawler is known to be the one with top number of requests per day among AI crawlers (src: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo... ) I guess one of Perplexity challenges is to have their own web index and of course that starts with having a powerful crawler. Also having a powerful crawler is useful for capturing tokens to train models. If that technology comes with the deal, it makes perfect sense for Perplexity to acquire them.

New comment by fgblanch in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

fgblanch — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:00:59 +0000

It is painful to read. To me in retrospective the major mistake in the presentation is that it barely talks about end users and how the iPhone enabled a new world of use cases. It is only about business/corporate, features and specs. When analyzing the iphone on those dimensions all the reactive action items are doomed. They had not a chance to compete with that analysis.

New comment by fgblanch in "AI for Product Managers"

fgblanch — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:14:08 +0000

This is a very bad article, probably to attract traffic to their PM course. For me is very simple, there are AI Product Managers. But those are not PMS that use AI tools but rather those that manage AI products. And there is a difference between Software 1.0 and Software 2.0 (AI or ML model based) products. These products are not managed as engineering but science. These products are managed with experiments. These products are non-deterministic. These products have virtually infinite inputs and outputs. These products do not address one problem but many at the same time. So, if you ask me of course there is a thing such as AI Product Manager but not what the author, and many other PMs, think.