danpalmer

If this is being announced here, it was probably started at least a few months ago, and at that point funding was likely looking a lot more forthcoming, so it would make sense to try to raise more than is strictly necessary if the price is good. On that basis, it might not be a problematic shortfall.

And as I said, I've never had a case of these where the access was malicious.

The only cases I really get from this are browsers when I try to log in to my router or NAS, firewall software when I ask it about connections, that sort of thing.

"I want to allow the software to talk to devices on my local network", not "whatever it wants".

I've never had a case of this where the access was malicious, and devices on my network have security controls. For me this popup is exceptionally low value.

Is it surprising? Looking at the demo videos I can absolutely see why it didn't get as much attention. Not that it's not impressive, it is, but these are in different leagues.

Apple sold ~250m of those ~1.65bn, so if you work on it being Android only, then foldables are ~1.4% instead of ~1.1%.

For the foldable market to triple in size, Apple would need to sell 40m this year, which if we assume a flat year for overall numbers (likely given rising costs this cycle and the trend of flattening sales anyway), then it would mean the fold taking 16% of all iPhone sales. For a ~2500-3200 USD phone (base model, international pricing), that's not happening.

Why would you think foldables are about to get a lot better? They have improved over the last 10 years, but the original caveats are pretty much all still there, and the iPhone Duo doesn't appear to improve on any of them in any meaningful way.

I'm on Hugo. It's simple, capable, well documented, LLMs understand it well, and I don't have to touch the JS ecosystem. My previous setup was with a Node based SSG and it broke on literally every update and had a hundred dependencies.

I suspect this might be my blindspot. I use my phone a huge amount, but almost never for watching video or gaming. Being able to have a "full screen" video, and another app running "full screen", with the effectively 2x screen space, makes sense.

I had a flip phone and I got it for this reason, but it honestly just sucked. The outer screens are too small to be useful, or in the case of Samsung, just don't have the right feature set to be useful. That means the phone ends up just being a full size smartphone with more steps to be able to use it.

I don't think this is a fair comparison, they are different markets – most people need a smartphone today, nobody really needs a PS5. A better comparison is to say that of smartphones sold in 2025 (~1.65bn), foldables represented ~1%. That's pretty niche.

Nearly 10 years in to foldables, and they still bring so many caveats. They are consistently worse for size, weight, shape, cameras, battery, robustness, and longevity. I don't think I'd ever recommend one.

On the other hand, the advantages are... an iPad like experience sometimes? Or a smaller phone for the flip form factor? The flip form factor certainly does not pay off. I'm honestly not sure who the trade-offs pay off for.

The economy has many different resources with different supplies available. Making the supply of one resource infinite may sound like a huge win, but nothing is dependent on a single resource, everything requires a combination – just like in board game economies, you can't win by only producing wood.

AI represents some weird intelligence-like resource. It clearly does something of value, but that must be combined with other resources. In tech there's a lot of that, so making it (roughly) infinitely accessible has had a nice impact and we've run into our next limiting factor: human time. Companies that aren't "pure tech" though will run into much earlier limiting factors – hardware, compliance, regulation, artistic value, human time, and so on.

Oh no you've completely misunderstood my point. I prefer people, and that's exactly why I want to continue talking to my friends.

Perhaps you're more comfortable chatting to strangers, perhaps this is a cultural thing. An analogy, if I was sitting in a restaurant with friends having a good time and a random additional person got seated at our table that would end the conversation, stop the socialising, and at best we'll have a boring, shallow conversation with the new person about who they are.

Arc was great, I never understood why they moved to Dia instead of just putting AI features into Arc.

The only reason I can figure out is that they decided the technical foundations were just wrong, which would be surprising because they put an astonishing amount of work into building some very specific technical foundations for Arc.

Now that Chrome has native vertical tabs I'm back on Chrome, but I do miss Arc's tab tidying and organisation.

I'm not sure you read my comment, certainly your comment doesn't seem to rebut the point I was making. Cabs are black in my country, but I specifically said "taxi" because this is not about Uber or modern ride-sharing, I've had the same experience with Ubers, black cabs, minicabs, booked taxis, and private drivers.

It's a downside of public transport too. Possibly my reason for being sensitive to this though is that I almost exclusively use public transport, getting a taxi is relatively rare for me, and I don't own a car.