Chaining works on Google Home (and, I believe, Alexa?). I use it all the time, e.g., "Cancel the 5 minute timer and set a timer for 6 minutes" or your example of setting multiple timers.
Times are always changing. Markets grow rapidly, and then they mature and growth gets flatter.
Specifically looking at Apple, while I agree that their focus has shifted away from the Mac platform somewhat and towards iOS, wasn't that to be expected with the huge growth in mobile and tablets over the last 10 years? Now, mobile growth is slowing[0] and tablet sales are flat/dropping[1].
Laptops aren't going anywhere... the vast majority of white collar workers use a laptop or desktop everyday. And while I can't predict what Apple is going to do (who can?), it seems unlikely that they'd completely drop a market that generated $5.7B in revenue in Q4 of 2016 [2].
I think it's the specific phrasing that becomes problematic. The GP said "can equally be found in China and Indonesia", which means that there are individuals with said diets in the those countries. This is categorically either true or false.
The parent discussed the diet of these huge countries as if they were consistent across all (or even most) individuals. In my opinion, this becomes highly subjective very fast.
Granted, this argument is pretty pedantic, and the threshold which determines when a group is too large to discuss as a single unit is squishy and highly contextual.
>> The normal diet in China and Indonesia is plant based.
Speaking of a group of about 1.6 billion people as if they were a monolith is not particularly productive.
Just looking at China itself, there is huge variation in the "average" diets between different provinces (e.g., Shanghainese dishes tend to be sweeter, Sichuanese dryer and spicier, etc.). And even at that provincial level it's kind of silly to lump everyone into a single average.
Do you ever listen to On The Media[0]? It's also an NPR show, so perhaps it runs into similar issues, but I think they tend to be fairly skeptical and ask questions about these kind of issues (media bias, etc.).
Warning: it can be extremely depressing to listen to specific examples of how poor a job the media does of actually covering "The News".
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