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Actually ,people in the end do pay more, but it's subtle.

Say you we're a customer that bought an iPhone every 2 years.

Now Apple's yearly plan looks like:

1. A new iPhone every year + Apple care

2. Same price

3. Don't have to deal with salesman at carrier store.

So more people will be tricked for new iPhone every year.

And once this becomes the standard , since Apple is a status symbol - suddenly buying a phone every 2 years carries less status.

You say that one key is experimenting on pets(which will have huge barriers in the west). In china, eating dogs is legal.So why haven't we seen such research coming from china, and especially successful drugs from there?

"Woz prototyped the guts of the Apple II, but needed a lot of help from people like Fernandez to turn it into reliable, repeatable hardware":

https://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/3jyovw/woz_jobs_d...

The 10000x improvement is improvement in power * size. So you might be on the same ballpark.

What abut large scale neural networks - they aren't mentioned in your site . No plans for that ?

In hong kong 90% of journeys are done using public transport.So the metaphor can be broken.

The bottleneck actually is arithmetic. "GPUs have much higher ALU throughput since the GPU chip area is almost entirely ALU"

http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/bidmach-machine-le...

Also on the horizon there is 3d chip manufacturing technology(3d-monolithic) ,with extremely large bandwidth between the two different layers of the chip,possibly being gpu + dram.

>> Is Apple Radio really going to add that much to your bottom line?

They will try to use radio in 2 way:

1. Make it unqiue and hard to copy, to add one more reason for people to use their device.

2. When making content deals, it's hard to get good deals if you come without a large crowd of subscribers.So apple plan to to use your radio subscription as content negotiation tool, and than upsell you a tv service - and there's a lot of money there.

But still , that calls for something like UBER with democratic vote over it's decisions. And since most people will be consumers ,not employees of that service , the incentive towards how to manage it's drivers would be the same.

>> no worker protections

Worker protection should apply equally to everyone, not give preferential treatment to one group(taxi drivers) at the expense of most other groups who just have minimum wage laws and osha.

Android supports pressure sensitive touch at the API level since 2009, and There's a phone from 2015 that supports this from huawei. But they didn't create useful interactions with it.

But haven't things changed? Google can do good design today, unlike before.Do consumers not believe this ?

There's nodered, an IOT dataflow engine. Seem to fit very well.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/node-red/

I'm not sure. With proterro working on making sugar at 1/3 of the cost(5 cents/pound) using synthetic bio, with solazyme selling specialized food components to the food industry, and with genomatica's technologies already running what seems like competitive BDO plants - it seems that SynBio can compete on cost.

In general i agree - on the innovation front, Apple isn't so strong.But like it did with maps - through the sheer power of investment ,together with owning the platform/user and a bit of time ,now maps dominate IOS mapping apps. Maybe they could achieve some growth by continuing doing that ?

Also you mention opportunities being missed. Can you please expand ?

20 years is a long time. What if virtual reality becomes the preferred entertainment method ? What if something other than phones becomes the new status symbol ? What if android manages to create an android status symbol phone or a unique android experiences ? What if due to some apps iMessage loses some of it's power ? what if itunes loses some of it's power ?

Not really. For example it was maybe possible to reliably warn other Jews. Or maybe help other Jews in countries that might in the future be aimed by Hitler find refuge.

Potentially they could have saved many.

How does the work for stowers is arranged ? do the computer give them specific sets of items to stow ? or is arranged according to the order the goods arrive ?

And what is this pallet land ? what's the benefit?

>> the horror of the concentration camps was not well known to the public during the war

But it was pretty well known for the british and american governments(since 1941 or at the latest 1942) , and even to this day, some details of said knowledge(the intelligence reports on decryptions on concentration camps communication) are not availble to historians.

One has to wonder why.

Actually when reading more about it, even if the American public would have known, it probably wouldn't have mattered much, judging by later genocides :

""no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence[genocide]. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060541644/metafilter...

Also another book shows how the holocaust was an open secret , known to millions since at least 1941:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805059849/metafilter...

I don't think it's really random.Since it's dictated by the computer, even though it looks random, i'm sure there are some patterns in the order(for example there are items that statistically sell together) ,But maybe they keep it as a trade secret , only to be known by a small group of developers and managers.

>> yet it's hard to find good content regarding how company X got to know their users and build what they really wanted.

Isn't all the work by steve-blank and the lean-startup deals with it?

I'm curious - since we know that a sales-like-process works for this kind of problems, didn't the private sector invent more scalable sales methods - and maybe they will be useful here ?

And by effective you mean easy ?

Because the advancements in the field are interesting and wide ranging: neural networks doing vision, speech, natural language understanding, reasoning and general learning over data.

But driving from the outskirts of a city to the inside, is just a 1 hour journey.

Elon musk has don a lot of myth building around himself,for example claiming to invent the hyperloop(which was invented in 1999 by ET3). And his employees are mad about him taking all the credit for all kinds of results.So i'm not sure you should count him.

We also see the same thing with Edison - claiming credit for other people's work.

The most impressive engineer i can think of is altschuler , which in the 1950's, in russia, even after/while being in a russian labor camp - invented a method of systematic invention(TRIZ) that is used to this day, and really enables every engineer to become an inventor.

So why am i mentioning him ? because to a certain extent - coming up with good inventive ideas may not be the hard part(to some extent). But refining the details,building prototypes,testing, etc is the filter that takes a bunch of good inventive ideas and comes with a great invention.

But usually this process takes an infinite amount of work, so it's beyond the capability of a single guy.

Even with such limitations to prevent violence, it's extremely easy and cheap, today, in the digital age, to enable communication between prisoners.

What's wrong with growing vegetables and berries outside of cities in greenhouses?

I think it depends on what you want to achieve.

If you want to design algorithms, and not just reuse an algorithm from a catalog:

"Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach: Udi Manber" Is very good.

If on the other you;re interested in a an extensive srvey of algo's and data-sturcutres, see"Algorithms and theory of computation handbook", by atallah. It has 2 volumes.

Maybe a different question need to be asked - people who bought VR headset - how do they feel after months of ownership ?