kyleplum

> Is this actually true?

I mean Google obviously thinks it is otherwise they wouldn't be paying Apple $20 billion a year.

I wish someone would make a social media version of the North American house hippo commercial that ran in the late 90's.

That situation just requires a longer hose

It seems dishonest to leave out Windows 11 when talking about how MS is for announcing in advance what support will be. They did not give anywhere near proper notice about the TPM/UEFI/Secureboot requirement ahead of time.

Isn't that what happened to SVB?

This is actually a more apt analogy than I think you intended.

We do have planes that can fly similarly to birds, however unlike birds, those planes do not fly on their own accord. Even when considering auto-pilot, a human has to initiate the process. Seems to me that AI is not all that different.

> I'd also argue that being sold at a big box store is not really indicative of much in the 21st century.

If you haven't already, I'd recommend spending some time reading about what it takes to get a product on the shelf at Wal-Mart/Target/Costco. When a companies reputation relies on what it is selling, the bar becomes a lot higher.

IMO the only thing that separates this from racketeering is that it's technically legal.

> Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here. From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented.

Are these filings typically full of quips? This seems pretty damning but I don't read enough court filings to know whether this sort of language is typical

You could replace "money" with any specific area of human expertise. I don't need to fully understand how my body works because my doctor does. I don't need to fully understand how my car works because my mechanic does. I don't need to know how to build my home because my contractors know.

The information is available to those who are interested or want to further that area of human expertise, but the collective knowledge of humanity is too great for all of us to know everything. That's why we pay (mostly) regulated experts to handle these things for us.

I am convinced that him not believing in it, getting paid a boatload to do a commercial stating he doesn't believe in it, then it failing is definitely the plot for a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.

> Our third quarter revenues were $69.1 billion, up 6% versus last year or up 11% on a constant currency basis

"Constant Currency Basis" seems to be the latest innovation in the non-GAAP methods of reporting revenue. The creativity of the financial industry never ceases to impress.

Thankfully we do have a set of "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles" that helps see through the bull.