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Isn't a "Show HN" supposed to be reserved for things that people can experiment with and give feedback on? This doesn't seem sufficiently interactive, and the sales pitch at the end seems odd for a Show HN, at least to me.

Good thoughts. I can't think how someone would become a customer without me ever sending them an email though. And all of our self-serve customers send emails to our help address, which doesn't end up in my Inbox. But you're right that I have to continue monitoring, and that getting a digest could be useful. I'm actually not opposed to having an LLM review the subjects and senders of the flagged emails, which are unlikely to be legit and very unlikely to have sensitive information in the subject.

Sounds like you've got a sweet thing going! If most people could save $5,000/yr on things they would have otherwise purchased, then they'd all have CSR, right?

I am not "going after people who use" DD. I just pushed back on the notion that it costs $10 to get dinner delivered for a family of 4.

So when AI-induced layoffs happen, it's good for DD because there are more potential drivers available? Or at least that nets out the downside of a bunch of well-heeled potential customers losing their jobs?

You're probably absolutely right about this, and some people in the company, or who invest in it, have likely made this exact (cold hard) calculation.

We take our kids when we go shopping, killing two birds with one stone.

We also think it's important not to have our kids grow up thinking that everything is just delivered to them at their beck and call.

The food desert thing has been debunked. And the notion that millions of low income people are using DD to get broccoli delivered is laughable.

Does DD or IC deliver reliably in rural areas in general?

Yep, unfortunately with the minimum wage mandate in CA pushing wages for pizza delivery drivers up to $20/hr led to over a thousand Pizza Hut drivers being laid off.

Unfortunately the existence of the (less-good) delivery options through DD and IC likely facilitated that decision.

Considering that I can go pick up the food myself, I think there's a very healthy competitive market here. In fact, that is what I do, all the time (when I'm not also competing with them by cooking my own food, using ingredients I purchased myself).

For a mere $800, I can net the fees to "approximately $0"? What a steal!

I'd be interested to see the math on this. They cover the amount I'd be expected to tip? They cover all the govt-mandated delivery driver fees? I could see how they might end up covering the official "delivery charge" but not the tip and other expected/mandatory fees that go along with actual delivery.

This is like the argument that Amazon has a monopoly, but it's actually even weaker. Doordash is just picking stuff up from local vendors that buyers could visit themselves, whereas Amazon is shipping people things from all over the world.

Amazon has been pretty successful in arguing that Walmart, Nordstrom, and everything in between are their competitors, and I expect that DD and IC will have no trouble doing the same (especially under this administration).

I went to a restaurant for a nice meal with my family. We ordered and waited for our food forever, as a steady stream of delivery bags went out the door. It was an hour before our first appetizer came out. It took us a while to figure it out, but there's no doubt the restaurant was incentivized to prioritize delivery orders over customers sitting in front of them.

Is it only $10 extra to have dinner for 4 delivered? IME the cost was much more than that, when you factor in the difference in menu price, the delivery fee, the tip, and the govt surcharges.

Yes, I definitely remember noticing how much better TV was when we moved from 20" sets from last century to HD LCDs (and then much larger/higher-res LCDs) over the last 25 years.

And I would disagree that only the story matters. If that were the case, people wouldn't go to the theater (a trend that has started happening in the last 15 years as people have been able to rig their living rooms to give an experience that is nearly theater quality, especially when considering cost and convenience. When we had 20" TVs, they were no substitute for going to the movies.

That's not been my experience with the refresh rates, and it's not what GP and GGP said either. I have a 13 mini and have bought both 16 and Air. I kept them for 2 weeks and then returned.

When I got the phones, I did not notice any benefit related to screen refresh. I also did not notice any detriment when I went back to my 13 mini after two weeks on a 120 Hz screen.

But if it was as GP said, and it's only something you notice when you go back to a "lesser" screen, then that would not be a selling point in my book.

It's hard to even know what price to use to calculate the delta, since there are different processors with different memory capacities, different CPUs based on memory, and higher price for the nano-texture display.

But yeah, a top-of-the-line iPad mini costs well more than an MBA, which seems kind of nuts. Add on a keyboard case and Apple Pencil Pro and you're looking at $1,500.

If something is not noticeable when it gets "better", but it leads people to notice other stuff is "worse" over time, then I'd argue it's not actually a good thing to get.

Imagine if someone said "this food won't really taste better to you when you first eat it, but after 6 months you'll find other food tastes worse". To me, this would not be a selling point.

I think part of the issue was that it encourages media consumption, which can be bad for productivity.

I also think they were not comparing it to an iPhone SE.

> The larger screen is great for productivity.

Interesting, reviewers (Joanna Stern) said that it was not great for productivity, more for consumption. Perhaps it works for your kind of tasks, but not hers/others.

Why? Who gets the revenue? Local government or national? What are they supposed to spend it on?

> They now have 35%

Is this of new car sales? Surely they've not taken over a third of the entire fleet in a few years.

Wyze makes a decent one, and cheap. Probably has fewer bells and whistles, but it serves me just fine.

Kindle's color tablets look a bit better than Kobo's, by my estimation. But neither is anywhere near iPad-level color saturation or contrast.

I think Amazon does some special stuff with the backplane or something. Seems like it's not 100% marketing gimmicks if it actually looks better.

I'll let you continue being wrong in peace. Have a good day, and keep dreaming those sweet, sweet AAPL dreams!

I am aware that anecdotes are not as good as large-scale evidence. That does not defeat the point that you are confusing necessary and sufficient conditions, rendering your own anecdotes even more useless than mine and @layer8.

Really weird that you keep insisting that you're right here. Some guy on the internet made a conjecture, other people disagreed with him, and you feel the need to keep boosting his claim. Yet every argument you make equally damages your own side, rather than showing that your side is stronger. Really weird approach.

That's now how the logic works. If someone asserts "the market is XYZ" then they have to show that actually is the market. When people say "I'm in XYZ and I'm definitely not the market", that shows that the hypothesis is wrong. When someone else says "I'm XYZ and I'm in the market", that is a necessary but not sufficient condition.

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> The market is: people with homes and an iPhones. That is to say, a fair number of people.

The point of comments like mine and @layer8's is that the market is actually much smaller than this. The fact that you are considering one does not mean the market is any category that includes you. It means that it is some category that includes you (and excludes me and @layer8). We don't know how big that market is, but if longtime Apple fans are not even considering the device, then probably it is not "all people with iPhones and homes". It could still be a big market, but it's glib to say that it's so large.

You can also use a HomePod/mini.

Well, I'm a big Apple fan and and also have an iPhone and a home (and various cameras in it) and I am not even considering getting this device. I am considering dropping 9x as much on a new iPhone, on the other hand...