Depends on the site being used. Google? Most likely. But I’ve used dozens of others without any issues.

You assume there is no other use for the VPN? And honestly, you can get a free trial of a VPN if you want to, to handle this, it doesn’t need a yearly re-up or anything, just when your card expires.

Ever heard of tenths? 22.1C isn’t noticeably different than 22.2C. And yet both are 72F.

GB? Amateur.

The deaf who refuse implants tend towards the “there’s nothing wrong with me why are you trying to fix me” mentality, not the “I don’t want to hear because it looks weird.”

And adoption of eyeglasses is likely higher than most other peripherals. Not to mention, putting in contacts is a chore and requires a little planning, while putting on glasses can be done in seconds in virtually any situation.

Yes, you will get people who refuse to adopt VR/AR. We still have people in the world who refuse to adopt electricity, but if you had asked people 30 years ago if they would carrot a phone around in their pocket you’d have been laughed out of the room… yet here we are.

VR in its current form, I agree, has only one real use.

But when improved upon and made smaller, I could easily see it being used to watch TV or similar. I’ve done that on a few flights and it was decent.

Not to mention, VR is a necessary step to get to AR, and AR has many more applications. Screens with anything anywhere, for one. Imagine a computer with one monitor, but numerous virtual monitors. Or a TV on your ceiling.

It’s iterative. Gaming just happens to be the current driver.

Speaking explicitly of text, they can likely be compressed to an insane degree instead of purged, if someone wanted to. For comparison, the entirety of Wikipedia (text only) is ~22GB.

Yeah… I’m betting Google voice is nearing its end of life. All the robocall legislation is making other voip services kill off their sms equivalents, I just cant see Google voice being the one service that manages to pull through.

Especially considering it’s a Google service of more than a decade, it’s long past due to be taken out back and shot.

The version you interact with on their site is explicitly instructed to respond like that. They intentionally put those roadblocks in place to prevent answers they deem “improper”.

If you take the roadblocks out, and instruct it to respond as human like as possible, you’d no longer get a response that acknowledges it’s an LLM.

Everything that uses electricity has caught fire before. It happening a handful of times is very different than being banned from planes.

Really? We going to ignore the accidentally not allowed on planes because they can explode phone?

The hardware is overpriced, absolutely. But it’s also typically better than Samsung.

By big standard I mean their “low end” device. The comparable Samsung of each generation is usually within ~$200 of the Apple model.

Eh? Their bog standard device cost is usually pretty on par. And Apple definitely isn’t charging you double.

Not really. Why would you need to be forgotten if no one knows who you are to begin with?

I think you misunderstood their meaning with that.

You’re assuming solid state buttons are completely reliant on software to run, but there’s no reason that has to be the case. Sure, for advanced stuff like “is a finger swiping across this” I agree you need software, but I doubt it’s impossible to use as binary input. “Is a finger touching this” isn’t hard when you have a little piece of hardware in there that sends out a signal when it’s being touched.

Code up an F24 presser in Excels VBA macro editor, and run that between your work hours.

The costs on such components is pennies, and Apple honestly isn’t shy about just charging more to cover their costs.

I do honestly believe they made those decisions to cut down on total space. The headphone jack alone is gigantic, and the home button required an entire bar of potential screen real estate dedicated to it.

Were there other options? Sure. They could have had the home button under the screen or something, but honestly their decision was likely the best choice. Which is only furthered by the fact that virtually everyone is doing the same thing now.

That said, moving from physical buttons to solid state buttons with haptic feedback… I don’t see how that could cost less. Honestly if it cost less, others would likely already be taking that shortcut.

I’d wager it costs a little more per phone, and they will charge an extra $100 for that “premium” feature. Simply because they can.

Not to state the obvious, but even if they did go in that direction, you’re not typically sitting there holding an hours long conversation with Siri. The battery life would be drained in proportion to how often you used it, just like phone calls, movies, and heavy games do now.

I mean, this is about replacing “buttons” with “solid state buttons”. There’s no indication that a solid state button has a higher failure rate than normal buttons, and you already have cases where normal buttons break and the phone cannot be recovered.

This is like complaining that they moved to OLED because LED screens are used to convey information… it’s essentially doing the exact same thing.