Thanks to obsession over KPI and metrics in general, we can no longer trust big tech corporations. It seems they've forgotten WHY you actually want to play fair, they can no longer be trusted.

We need to teach non-technical people that in this reality, a scam might come directly from the real seemingly "reputable" company.

Good, RAM to the people!

Apple says: Not so fast.

I don't expect prices for RAM or SSD to get cheaper anytime soon. From what I've seen, production capacity has been bought out for a couple years already.

Datacenter capex decreasing means that the chips have to go somewhere else, so it doesn't matter too much that the fab capacity has been spoken for, if the demand side is slacking prices will decrease.

OpenAI aren't the only ones who were increasing their datacenter capex.

No, but they are the ones who placed an order for 40% of the world's supply.

Sure, but they have competitors who'll be more than happy to pick up whatever OpenAI ultimately doesn't buy. Point being, from POV of suppliers, there's no reason to re-retool for consumer production.

There was a point in time when crypto miners bought tons of capacity from TSMC months and years out and reneged on those contracts. Means nothing.

Eventually Chinese RAM will get good enough and then it'll flood the market, pushing prices down.

It has been good enough for long time. CXMT has long made DRAM and NAND modules that are just as good as anyone else's, sometimes for half the price. The only thing they can't match is flagship products of Samsung.

However because of that, prices for Chinese-made DDR5 have risen in China (and globally) along with the prices of all others, just with a slight delay.

Market manipulation..

BTW it seems they forgot about the part that defense uses of the model also need to be safeguarded from people. Because what if a bad person from a bad country tries to defend against peaceful attacks from a good country like the US? That would be a tragedy, so we need to limit defensive capabilities too.

We even have smartcards with e-ink displays and I'd personally want them to succeed here instead of moving security-critical apps to smartphones..

Because Google then abuses its position to inject unremovable spyware with elevated privileges into the phone which the user then can't defent against without making the phone "unsecure" and thus unsuitable for these apps.

If these apps really need a smartphone, I'd at least want it to be free of ad-related garbage in the system. I'm fine with not being able to flash a custom ROM on the smartcard as it doesn't contain hostile software.

Now if even Apple starts showing ads, there's no other choice but to restist this..

> threats:

> unknown system image (e.g. custom ROM)

Oh no, what a horrible crime, somebody dared to modify operating system on their own device..

Sports already exclude most people as they're not performant enough. So I don't see a problem with excluding biological males from female sports.

But, we should compare actual body parts that are relevant, for example I'm male but I'd not belong in male sports as my body is more feminine..

Still, it's not who you think you are that should decide, it's the body type so the competition can be more interesting as that is the point of sports anyway..

So will Apple users be able disable these ads in maps?

The nice thing about many of the native apps compared to their Google pendants is the absence of ads, with the glaring exception of the app store, which looks like a dumpster-fire. It is so disheartening to see the trend of shoving ads everywhere continue with Apple as well. I guess the profits are just too tempting to stick with idealistic UX decisions, if there was any of that left in the first place.

I would expect, much like the App Store, they will not. Their maps will give you directions to navigate the enshittification curve.