Apple didn’t have a claim to all small size screens, they were the only ones who ordered them in the first place. So this isn’t their fault, though I do resent them dropping the 13 mini so suddenly (I had expected to pick one up after this announcement, but they cost the same as the newest pro…)

The small phone project is looking for existing screens so they don’t have to design and pay for the tooling to produce them.

Solidly a “were using AI to do cool things, but those cool things don’t improve our core business” project.

This product only makes sense to exist where Google is trying to show it gets AI, once it becomes more commoditized and integrated with language apps then they’ll be forced to confront the fact that teaching is not just translation, and the expert knowledge of language apps will beat them.

I’m bearish on the longevity of this one.

(The base of this tech does help their business, this front end doesn’t)

It is. It says nothing at all and can mean anything. But they did give a reason.

“We are on the ground doing the hard work of diplomacy,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the 15-member council after the vote. “We believe we need to let that diplomacy play out.”

I’ve worked at more than one company where chrome thought the internet/internal websites were a phishing attempt due to URL similarity to their public sites… I foresee this causing headaches and confusion.

I try this but it never sticks, so I try and log everything in tickets instead.

That sucks.

I sometimes work with west coat companies and the quiet time in the morning was great. It sucks having to be on calls at 8/9PM though.

Damn, it’s hard to keep track of my workers… how can I offload this task on someone else so that I only have a game of telephone understanding of my business

Congratulations on getting to add “former” to that bosses name.

It’s possible more collaboration would have helped, but so would properly speccing the project…

One thing I’ve learned is people don’t read, at all, even short text.

The micromanagers they have no fucking clue what’s going on if it’s written down, they need to interrupt and have you explain what it is or they have no idea what is happening.

Their boss goes “how’s the team doing, what are they working on” and they look like shit because they don’t actually read your status updates or standup or project board.

I really think that’s 80% of the problem here. We went remote without retraining and rethinking who the bosses are for that environment.

I don’t like them daily, it’s too much accountability to always say something, and there’s always that one person who stretches it out.

I prefer a weekly priority list and a weekly planning meeting.

Yeah I hate this. At 9 I don’t remember where I was yesterday.

Also, ask “how did you spend your time last week” and “what are you planning to do this week”. The answers may surprise you!

I think phones from 8 years ago were fine, but phones from the last 3-5 years are in my opinion basically fully developed.

Good batteries, good cameras that are no longer really getting better (we’ve looped back to the megapixel wars), basically desktop class chips that can run full 3d games or even AR with on the fly ML. They’re waterproof, the glass is durable (I dropped a Pixel Pro down the stairs onto ceramic tile yesterday and it’s perfectly fine), antennas are super fast, NFC works, they support strong encryption quickly… The screens are all super high def OLED with HDR and amazing colour quality which looks amazing and I’ve never seen one burn in.

Really the only new stuff to add is generative AI for like text completion, and that doesn’t even run reasonay on 99% of desktops.

Between the economy and cost of living, the high prices of phones, and lackluster releases these last several years (since 2020 at least), I don’t give this surprising at all.

I’m going to drive my iPhone 12 mini until it dies, then I’ll look at phones. Each year I look and there’s nothing new.

Here’s the upcoming release from all manufacturers in 2024:

the new Pro Phone Maximum Erection Pro Version in Pro Green (blue was so 2023) has a 6.7" SuperLiquidThunderCat™️ screen. The camera is even better, it’s Pro! With more AI it’ll fuck around with your precious memories so you forget you ever had that ugly cousin, you’ll be like “who’s that supermodel with the Halloween mask skin”?! The camera has 130 lenses and lens equivalents (that means preset zoom levels, for all you non Pros). The battery is even better this year, it lasts barely longer than your already good enough battery life, but now it’s Pro. And with these new AI features, your battery drains 30% faster, and we’ll scan every text message and photo you have and send it to the cloud for training. Pro! AI!

Are you okay AutoTL;DR bot?

You’re missing the forest for the trees.

I feel like if I continue to argue with you we’ll end up debating what the meaning of every word.

Blocking people’s access to all food, electricity, and water is entirely different than a country banning travel from another country.

Starving people to death via a siege and not allowing passport holders to visit are worlds apart.

Aside from that, it would be a violation of sovereignty to say which countries other countries had to allow in. Countries can and do block passports all the time.

I like to think of Google as a death fight between hundreds of unsupervised Product Managers all fighting for too few promotions.

They don’t care about the users or the long term, just selling themselves and shitting on the competing PMs to make themselves look good.

Then you’ve got an accounting department trying to reign in the unprofitable stuff for the investors.

I’m having Windows Phone 7 flashbacks.

RIP HTC Raider, you were a great phone that got shafted hard by Google.