It’s great for multitasking. I’ve seen phones boot and already consume 3-4GB of RAM. Alas, that’s how much some of this software uses now, depending on your needs.

What appears to be common sense to you is hardly common sense to the consumer. I choose to be more inclusive thinking of a person who might not necessarily know what 8 GB means. That’s a ton of Apple’s customers.

Just to play devil’s advocate: a smartphone is definitely a computer and has no trouble competing with older laptop CPUs in benchmarks. I see this as a difference without a distinction beyond form factor.

8GB is 💯 barely serviceable. I see this is a product for a casual user only, with excellent build quality. I don’t think it ages well when pushed.

The only potential concern I have is in considering how much casual PC market is left in the industry. I thought these users moved on to mobile, ergo leaving enthusiasts and professionals behind years ago as the remaining users. It might also cannibalize sales of their more powerful laptops because: who are the laptop buyers now? Where are they? Surely Apple did a market study, and they look set to completely dominate whatever’s left.

If I wasn’t going to use Linux, it would be Mac. Quite compelling despite the lower memory because we are in an expensive market.

They’re not alone, either. I had to downgrade my Visio just to use the features that it shipped with. I’m sure this is illegal, but no one cares unless you’re rich.

Trust me! Pay no attention to the huge heaps of cash money.

I’m not sure we have laws. It depends heavily on who you are whether or not they are enforced. They are more notional generalisms of what we think the law ought to be rather than what it actually is.

Why make it so specific? Can’t we make it illegal to benefit from material, non-public information?

This is still insider trading, which ought to be illegal, but it appears to be generally accepted.

Hm, good point. Perhaps the overconfidence AI might provide is even worse than knowing you don’t know.

Mixed feelings about this. Let me play devils advocate and say that many Americans don’t have access to these resources at all. Having potentially inaccurate resources might be better than nothing, or is that worse?

Funny thing is, this whole democracy thing was supposed to have been a compromise so we didn’t have royals get their heads chopped off so frequently.

No, that’s the ruling class. They are not subject to laws.

Yes. Operation Epstein Fury.

Can’t wait for distros to post a disclaimer that this software is strictly intended only for use on the moon.

Counterpoint: Phone CPUs can rival yesterday’s desktops.

Fantastic. Excellent news! I would expect nothing less.

None were mistakenly withheld. Only intentionally withheld.

Which is weird, because they’re not going to pursue justice anyway. Why not just release the documents?

I’m sure they think that’s fine. It’s just poor people. They absolutely loathe the poor.

Wow! Thanks for sharing that data. I had no idea.

That social rot you smell? It’s you. You’re the social rot.