Excited to upgrade to a Mac with Thunderbolt 5 which should allow for 6K at 120Hz with 10 bit color over a single cable. All this with an OLED panel is just about peak display for me.(though miniLED would be fine too)
Add a nice integrated iPhone quality webcam, and I think it would be endgame display. If there is one company that could do this, it would be Apple.
Although I have an LG Ergo 4k 32inch at home and I think the 16:9 ratio is just not enough for having 2 windows side by side. You'd only get 1500pixels per window on retina 6K.
I would've liked it to be a bit wider.
Or maybe I'd go for a smaller 27 inch, and put my laptop screen as a secondary screen next to it.
So in a good case scenario say AI continues on it's current exponential pace, most information workers are replaced by an agent, and a UBI comes about. What then? For people the life's journey is often more important than the destination, but now we are essentially playing on a God mode and everything comes too easy. This is something i've been dealing with, It will be hard trying to find a purpose when your contributions dont mean much. Your family and some hobbies is alls left to contribute to. We will be like spoilt children who have everything given to them on a silver platter, will it make us miserable?
Hetzner seems to have the best deals in cloud computing right now, especially for individuals / small companies. I'm excited for their dedicated ARM vCPUs to become available!
Apple should probably get on fixing that; their new architecture broke a popular application on their platform, and that could cost them users.
(I'm being tongue-in-check, but those who know the story of Microsoft beating up their APIs to keep Adobe happy know that's actually how this goes sometimes. "Who's gonna pay the cost for this being broken?" is a business concern as much as a technical one).
I think we are seeing a 2 pronged change in the automotive space and I think Apple can contribute to both.
1. Consumer-owned Electric Cars with advanced AI safety and lane-keeping assist (Traditional Automakers)
2. Corporation-owned Fully Autonomous Vehicles as a service. (Waymo, Cruise etc)
The former Apple is already having its presence known with CarPlay and will continue to expand with its 'next generation' previewed at WWDC that can take over all screens in a car. I feel as though by 2026 when electric cars will be even more mainstream the Apple version of a Tesla will be less differentiated and not high margin enough.
The latter is a more ambitious and disruptive long term goal. It's harder to do right, but has a much greater upside. The Apple Car may actually be the Apple Car Service with custom autonomous driving hardware and software developed by Apple. The service would be highly integrated into Apple's exiting ecosystem and would bring with it the luxury and trust that people associate with the brand
I'm not sure the comparison here. I could get 8 t3a.micros (16 cores total) for ~$700 reserved for 3 years, including power costs. And I don't have to maintain it, or the network connection etc.
But you do have to pay network usage by the gigabyte, right? And 8 full "hyperthreaded" cores in one machine are more useful than 16 machines with a core each, though I admit I don't know how much such a machine would cost on AWS.
Cruise and Waymo are the clear market leaders in Autonomous Vehicles. Tracking the progress of these companies in the past year alone where they are operating with no safety driver in dense San Francisco is incredibly impressive. The field of machine learning in general is advancing at a great pace as well. I think by the end of the decade in places with limited weather events AV will be as common as Uber. At some point people will reconsider buying a new car and just rely on a robotaxi subscription along with walking, cycling, and transit to get around. It will be survival of the fittest though, only few companies will succeed. Tesla 'Autopilot' on the other hand doesn't even use Lidar, seems to disconnect frequently and is much more dangerous. I really think they use deceptive marketing.
I am writing the backend of my side-project with it. Async/Await in Swift is game-changing for safety and productivity. The tooling is only getting better and you can expect greater maturity with the coming of [Swift 6](https://forums.swift.org/t/on-the-road-to-swift-6/32862) likely next year.
