MBCook

Because AI removed what little value it had.

AI isn’t magic and can’t always give you the right answer. And it can’t give you the why a lot of the time.

People’s actual experience is useful, and stack overflow was great for that. Until they ruined it.

If the site hadn’t been ruined, it still would’ve had value today. Traffic would’ve dropped, but not to near zero.

AI can’t always give you the right answer. But it tries. StackOverflow stopped trying to answer questions.

I think they had a problem with that last year, so I suspect they may be extra vigilant.

Being a software engineer is also probably part of it.

I spend all day on the computer. Unless I have some specific project I’m really interested in I’ve already had plenty of “computer time“ for the day and don’t feel that draw.

It still made sense before the smart phone, or when my phone it iPad couldn’t cover my needs well. These days that’s not a problem.

> They won't. There is zero business interest in making dedicated layouts for such a small portion of the population that won't be using your app anyways, unless you're hyper specialized. I'm sure Bloomberg can justify a foldable layout, the New York Times doesn't.

And yet, lots are already. And as people have pointed out, it’s pretty close to being an iPad mini. So if you’re already doing different size layouts, you’re pretty close.

For those who want to spend the money why not let them?

Hi. Big techie nerd here. This is me.

If I’m not doing programming or 3D modeling, I generally don’t use my laptop. It doesn’t seem worth the trouble of getting it. I can do the vast, vast majority of what I want on my phone, faster, because it’s already right there.

If I’m reading more or researching more, I pull out my iPad for the bigger screen.

But over the last decade, I’ve realized those two take care of the vast majority of my needs.

Boy people in here are super negative.

Consoles won’t go anywhere. They have advantages but more than anything so so SO SO many consumers want them and don’t want to mess with computers.

They’re gaming appliances and that will still be a huge draw.

PS: Sony gave up PC publishing, so that argument no longer holds. It was a dumb move as you said.

It’s their choice to continue to develop ever bigger super-tent-pole septuple-A games.

Look at all the amazing stuff in the indie space. Let your developers go wild and make neat games that don’t cost $200 billion each.

You could have so many test exclusives like the more fun and experimental stuff we had in the PS1/2 era.

You don’t have to give up the big games. Just don’t focus entirely on them.

Same problem movie studios have. They chase the “sure things” and just pump more money in to be “more sure”. It’s all more fragile than ever.

Plus developers get simplicity in having one (well two these days) configurations per console brand to deal with. Not 12 billion.

Valve isn’t trying to make a bunch of games with AND pay for/off all the studios they bought, all while trying to advertise and compete with Sony and Nintendo in hardware.

Steam just sits back and takes money, for the most part. The hardware/software/advertising spend is probably a drop in the bucket compared to MS.

They crank up security every release. Perhaps ones after that were somehow drastically harder?

So now that Tim Cook is gone will we see John Ternus actually apply some braincells to this?

They’re just going to keep losing. And every time they fight they make it worse. They had a chance to get off way easier years ago. They destroyed it by fighting tooth and nail.

I don’t want any of those features myself, I don’t think. Small chance at side-loading.

But everyone, even diehard Apple pundits, realized long ago this was a very stupid hill to die on.

Does this grant any of that?