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Construction is not a niche industry although I would argue otherwise about illustration. Anyway my previous point was not about those being niche industries but niche use cases as far as iPad users.…

And tons of artists spend their day with Procreate but those are still quite niche use cases.

Anyone remembers stuxnet? Apparently part of a US and Israel joint operation called Olympic Games [1]. In the documentary Zero Days some anonymous source mentions there was another project within Olym…

when working?

An eink display is vastly better for reading though. I only use the iPad for reading PDFs because Kindles are too small for that.

The laptop is better in many situations as the screen stands on its own. When reading in bed I use a stand to hold my Kindle at the best position. I would need a much heavier stand to be able to do th…

The Neo is definitely a response to Chromebooks. Apple bet on the iPad for the education market and lost that bet for obvious reasons. This was already obvious 10 years ago when I was working in edtec…

This is not for "serious work". It's for users who spend most of their time in a browser and/or using lightweight apps.

Hasn't this been the case for most Apple laptops?

So Apple is finally "admitting" an iPad is not the right device for certain users/situations.

> it's pretty easy for college students to justify this plus an iPad Why would you want an iPad? The Neo can run iPad apps and it's small enough that it can be used in most situations w…

Not sure if this was available in previous gens but my M4 Pro can run in low power mode. It's amazing. I can work for hours and only use 10-15% of the battery.

Yeah this is a real issue with these new Macs. I would wait until macOS 27 to see the direction Apple takes.

I really hope these flop and don’t become mainstream. It would be a surveillance and privacy dystopian nightmare.

damn you're right :/

The iPad 1 was released in 2010

It's much easier to simply use this with whatever date you prefer: defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate -date "2030-03-03 12:00:00 +0000" …

They are desperate for cash.

Some of Google's products have really dropped in quality. In the past 5 or so years all the changes I've seen in Search, Youtube, and Gmail have been for the worse.

> Amazon will start with an initial $15 billion investment, followed by another $35 billion in the coming months when certain conditions are met. Those conditions are an IPO or reaching AGI [1]. …

The price for whatever we're getting out of AI is way too high.

Also "AGI is just around the corner".

I've been using their cloud storage and CDN for a couple of years. No complaints. Super reliable.

What features are missing?

That used to be the case 3-4 years ago. Today Astro is very much a serious contender for dynamic web apps.

Unlike Astro, this looks more like a low effort experiment while making fun of a competitor than a project intended for any serious production use. Maybe I'm wrong. We'll see what happens a …

Tangential but it's amazing in 2026 browsers still don't ship a native DOM morph/merge API like morphdom or idiomorph.

I don't think that's pedantic. Seems like a valid objection to me. So many issues in the client JS world originate from insufficient or bad browser APIs.

The article is reporting what someone from Goldman Sachs said in an interview.

Sure but the issue with AI is results vs money burned.