> But then Apple can negotiate on another basis and say, well, if you don’t do us a favor here and give us a better rate, then maybe we won’t work with you when all this settles down. You know things are going to settle down. These things are always cyclical. There’s never been a semiconductor boom that’s not followed by a semiconductor bust. Never. And they know it.

I have to think that the RAM suppliers wouldn't be that easy to intimidate with threats, since they know perfectly well how few alternatives Apple has. And they are also perfectly aware that Apple will play hardball with them when the market turns, regardless of whether they were nice to Apple now.

You have another piece of information, you don't only know if the element was before or after the compared element. You can also know the delta between what you looked at and what you're looking for. And you also have the delta from the previous item you looked at.

And I'm fully convinced that what I do will not just be a little bit better than what AI Al makes. It will trounce it in all quality criteria. But of course, coincidentally with the rise of AI assistance, software quality has completely disappeared from the conversation. I wonder why.

That's not an explanation, you just replaced a problem with another harder one.

It's far more likely that hobbyists will be hurt than someone that can just write off the cost as a small expense for their criminal scheme.

Pretending that this is about anything but Google's greed is giving them far too much credit.

They do already, my work laptop runs the corporate spin of Ubuntu, complete with Crowdstrike, which goes absolutely crazy and chews all the CPU whenever I do a Yocto build.