I define myself politically as a Classical Liberal and therefore I strongly oppose pseudoscientific positions like those defended by the Critical Theory folks (aka "woke").
I wholeheartedly support the Godot team.
We can't tolerate each other. We can't be friends.
I know some people will tell that people like me are wrong, people like them are wrong, that we are both wrong, but you just need to educate yourself politically.
Looks like I bothered some fanboys, the Earth still rotates around the Sun. I don't have time for people that refuse to accept the truth, and the fact is that "duplex" is not even a shadow of what they promised last year, doesn't matter to anyone but for fanboys because the assistant usage is exactly as you expect: Siri the most used, then Samsung's Bixby then Google's... in a market where Android dominates, it's shameful for Google to lose so clearly at their core competence, so they push so hard for their image as a "cut above the rest" that some people actually believe it.
This is in the US, where Apple only manages a 36% smartphone market share, and google assistant is available on the iPhone, but Siri isn't on non-Apple devices
It simply doesn't work in any real life situation.
Yes, the problem of self driving cars is they can kill people, that's the whole problem, thing is that google is always promising that "they are here for all", "it's the next year", etc. it's all BS.
You don't have a google self driving car, and you didn't book your hairdresser via duplex, and you won't be booking your car or anything through any of this.
AMZN was once the biggest company by market cap and over a $1T...
Now it's in the low 900's.
GOOG was once higher than Apple, now it isn't even in the 900's club.
Wall Street is dumb as a rock when it comes to technology and they invest heavily in industries they just don't understand.
My favourite example is cloud.
What is cloud: it's you renting computers.
No, it's not software, because people want a Hotel to go on vacations so they don't have to do the chores associated with living in a house (doing the bedroom, cleaning, etc.) and enjoy. Now, engineers, we want a reason to be hired, so PaaS doesn't have a point, SaaS has it's limited market, and IaaS is completly stupid.
There's a reason why the companies best aligned with doing cloud (those who make semiconductors) aren't aligning in it, is there a Intel cloud? A TSMC cloud? No!
Let them do the computer renting business, "it's the future", renting a thing that devaluates in value faster than a car!
> So you beat the market for a total of... Two and a half months?
I've been beating the market for quite some time.
Looks like the market doesn't go your favor. It went mine, so I'm right.
The market is stupid, the proof is that a company's value doesn't change in a question of months, but stock does.
> It's your prerogative if you want to believe that the market is stupid/predictable, or that you can invest better than people with billions of dollars in resources, but just ask yourself this: Why are you succeeding where others aren't?
Because very few of us are smart, and not me, because I'm small, but the big ones are controlling many dumb ones that believe the rhetoric they read anywhere online and for free. Specially the bots.
It's stupid because the market valuated AAPL at about $150 three months ago, and now is about $150.
That stupid.
BTW, I say the market is stupid because I bought AAPL shares January 28th (a monday), and I've bet the market ever since, I've beat SP500, DOW, I've won AMZN, MSFT, GOOG, everything. I even won Warren Buffet.
And I'm selling now, because the market is also predictable.
I have no words for it, they do as they are told by the news. I do the contrary, this is a warning sign for me, I might miss 10%-20%, but it doesn't matter, 30% is good enough and not worth the risk.
This is how I expect media to describe the US External Politics
If President is Democrat:
* If President Raises Military Expenditure: "he is helping protect the people of the world from tyrant governments"
* If President Lowers Military Expenditure: "we cant afford this many wars, we must instead focus on our own problems, we must focus on (insert recent catastrophe, that's inevitable in the US like a wild fire in the West Coast or a tornado in the East Coast)"
If President is Republican:
* If President Raises Military Expenditure: "he is being imperialist, we don't want this blood in our hands"
* If President Lowers Military Expenditure: "he is letting the tyrants like him do their bidding, remember the little kids in Africa, if we don't step in, who will?"
> Nobody's going to choose Apple over Netflix or Steam or the like on the theory that Netflix/Steam is "scammy."
No.
In the same way people won't be choosing Netflix over HBO because HBO is scammy.
The whole article doesn't make any sense.
When you buy a computer or a phone, you buy just one and that's it, having more than a computer or phone doesn't make much sense as it's worse than having only one. So Apple needs to make a decidedly (for the costumer) better product.
While in art/entertainment, there's no "better", people consume the content they want, and can have more than one subscription.
You can have Netflix and Apple and HBO and many others, or none at all.
The only thing Apple needs is to produce content good enough that people are willing to spend the mensality.