There is a lot of overlap between people who have a NAS and those with a 3D printer.

If so then you could access it over a reverse proxy like Tailscale.

Its trivially easy to set one up these days.

I think it’s mostly the above, rather than a capitalist conspiracy, or in its relevance as a scientific curiosity.

EDIT: regarding the CEO, you should find the interview where he’s challenged about funding.

It’s exactly the sort of news bite that catastrophists glom onto.

This is responsible journalism.

Since credit is the primary means used for discretionary spending, I firmly believe that the accessibility of quick (but not necessarily cheap) interest allows inflation to go unchecked.

It wasn’t long before Costa Concordia was looted for its treasures.

Mil systems have severely constrained supply chain limitations too, while consumer vehicle systems can comfortably be produced in their millions from China.

I’m not sure what else they are behind on frankly, as their current offerings have been extremely stable from day dot.

How many products has Google released and killed in the past 20 years? Apple managed to land on a good thing with Apple iTunes and iPhotos in the early oughts, and managed to transition those core services into Apple Music and iCloud with little to no disruption to users. iCloud is generally a pretty predictable service that delivers on a core set of user requirements very well.

Also, thief productivity suite isn’t meant to completely replace Office, and for a free package, it meets many users needs perfectly fine.

The permissions and secure app integration models are all there, and it’s reasonably stable.

It was always puzzling why there was never an exportable scripting language, just shareable links. I think I ended up sharing screen shots with Claude last time I wanted to troubleshoot something.

They want to be able to sell handsets, desktops and laptops to their customer base.

Pursing a product line that would consume the finite amount of silicon manufacturing resources away from that user base would be corporate suicide.

Even nvidia has all but dropped support for its traditional gaming customer base to satisfy its new strategy.

At any rate, the local inference capabilities are only going to get cheaper and more accessible over the coming years, and Apple are probably better placed than anyone to make it happen.

I can only imagine that their boardroom minutes included heated exchanges between their legal and marketing teams.

I’m genuinely confused why you would think that.

> Well educated members of an household would know when dinner is ready because they would actually help make it ready for everyone.

This is one of the most obnoxious things I have read all year.

None of them are particularly sticky - you can move between them with relative ease in vscode for instance.

I think the only moat is going to be based on capacity, but even that isnt going to last long as the products are moved away from the cloud and closer your end devices.

Why aren’t there more ‘semi dumb’ Ethernet or wifi products that just let you announce that dinner is ready? It doesn’t need to be a fully ruggedised commercial system like this one or a fully integrated cloud managed solution like ring.

The cheap no name wireless ones can’t handle comms between rooms, let alone across a house.

The security implications aren’t insurmountable - you could use pairing codes if there are multiple on the network.

I’ve accepted that it’s a niche market, and that the only solution is to use Asterix with a some cheapo voip phones.

This mea culpa is very refreshing though, along with the admission that they went overboard with CoPilot.