An authentic Steve Jobs demo presentation would generate 100x more excitement than this canned, blan, nearly AI boring level cringe presentation. I'll just wait for a YouTube review where an actual human you can relate to handles it.
True, I remember years ago, the presenter was doing a demo and ran into a problem. He quickly transitioned to another identical device nearby, and continued almost seamlessly. Didn't seem like much of an issue. Although that might have been WWDC, which is a different crowd.
I’ve seen that happen a couple of times. I know there was an infamous Microsoft one, where the demo BSOD’d on Bill Gates (Not WWDC. I wasn’t there, but I’m sure there’s video). Microsoft used to demo real unstable stuff.
I remember one WWDC, where Ian Diery was giving a demo with a young man, and asked “Where’s the beef?” The kid looked down at his pants, and the crowd burst into laughter.
Diery did not laugh. He was a fairly serious chap, with no discernible sense of humor, so I expect his assistant was sanctioned for that.
I think the last DuDub I went to, was around 2005 (pre-iPhone). I know it was at Moscone. Jobs led that. He was one of the best presenters I’ve ever seen. He could recover from curveballs almost imperceptibly.
The first, was in 1987, or 1988. One of the first.
> Face ID ... didn't quite work as he expected. "Your passcode is required to enable Face ID" popped up, eliciting a nervous chuckle out of Craig and forcing him to switch to the spare demo phone
Almost every convenience store in Japan has a public toilet. Yes, it is polite to purchase something but it's not required. Some even have bidet function.
These unintended (or intended?) affects of the AI boom are yet another cause for hate among a key demographic (people who use/buy/build PCs) who might otherwise be pro-AI but because of this are quite anti-AI.
I think it looks romantic from the perspective of someone in a major metro area. But long term, that sort of lifestyle is only for the people who can really endure that. After a while I think most would not want that remoteness.
Until the Chinese government penalizes these Chinese companies for these insecure practices, they'll continue to be sold as is. China doesn't need to care about Chinese made products sold for export apparently.
Why single out the Chinese government? No government anywhere cares about defective software. "Engineering" is certainly not the correct term to apply to this industry.
Yeah. I subscribe to a mailing list from a data security company that sends me a summary of breaches, daily. I know it is in their interest to keep me worried. But they aren’t making these stories up.
To be fair, in many (maybe all?) of those cases, those companies faced consequences. I highly doubt this company is going to face any consequence for this data breach.
AT&T was fined $177 million for one data breach, which represents 12 hours of revenue, and $13 million for the other, which represents 54 minutes of revenue. "Consequences". Right.
You can brush that $177M fine aside but I'm almost certain that none of the Chinese companies above with these security vulnerabilities will pay even $1 in fines.
Because they didn't cause harm to 100 million people. The headline is a blatant lie. Nobody was hacked, the reporter hired a pentester to pentest a product. Is it a good thing that it's insecure, obviously not. But obviously this is going to be a legal non-event compared to leaking PII for 100m people, regardless of nationality of companies involved, when leaking PII for 100m people is already slap-on-the-wrist territory. There are also countless insecure American hardware products on the market that also don't result in litigation because the scale is not national news-worthy.
Do US markets (Amazon) hold any responsibility for what shady companies and their insecure products they enable to sell here, I wonder? Does our government, for import?
I see an opportunity for an import hurdle masquerading as a security compliance mark on all Chinese imports.
I doubt it will be implemented as there are no western cheap gadget industries left to lobby for it, and the big players would prefer the fud of buy cheap be tracked.
> China doesn't need to care about Chinese made products sold for export apparently.
Wait until you hear about this American car companies that makes vehicles so unsafe, they intentionally lock themselves down tight in an accident so the emergency services can't get people out of them, and presumably just have to sit there and burn to death with their rescuers half a metre away.
This is perfectly legal under US law. There are no safety regulations.
The stock prices are not great all things considered- I think that the vtuber audience needs something new/different to broaden beyond it's current market base AND I think investors would rather put money into AI related stocks than IP/vtuber related stocks.
Did I say 1950 pop stars popularity was authentic? I'm just saying the implicit question of this post's title can be simply answered with "they're so popular because of marketing, duh"
