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  • They existed before iPod, they just didnt get the marketing blitz Apple did. Cowon comes to mind, and had much better quality audio.

    I did some research on this, because I was a big fan of MP3 players in the late 90s early 2000s and never heard of them. Turns out that the only Cowon Mp3 player I could find from around the iPod launch was the iAudio CW200, which had a capacity of 256MB.

    This explains why I had never heard of it, as I was shopping for HDD-based players that could hold my entire library(I was looking at PJB, Nomad, Archos, etc).

    Sorry but this illustrates OP's point. The iPod was the smallest HDD-based player on the market for years, all the other HDD players were chunky and could barely fit in a pocket. All the flash-based players had pitiful capacity. It wasn't that there were no MP3 players, it was that all the products had compromises that made them not ready for mass adoption.

    While OP is overstating some things, your counter examples are rife with oversights like this.

    As an example you are badmouthing Apple's "low resolution displays", while missing the fact that the MacBook Pro was the first ever mass market high dpi laptop. Ironically Samsung had produced a limited production laptop with a similar screen, but because Samsung lacks focus and had 1000 different laptop SKUs, they didn't make it a premiere feature of their brand, instead Apple simply bought out Samsung's entire manufacturing capacity for years and put them in their laptops.

    This is the pattern. There are interesting technologies, but they are in products with mediocre design or appeal, and are not mass produced. Apple identifies these technologies, optimizes them, integrates them, ensures that there is a good user experience, makes a million of them, makes a billion on that, then changes the entire landscape of the market they entered by virtue of their success.

  • It is, they have an official app store app as well though. However I find mlem to be a smoother experience, particularly scrolling, and it tends to keep its position when being backgrounded better than memmy and voyager.

  • Quest is better in every way

    Zuckerberg can’t even buy an SOC to put in the quest to compete with Apple. Qualcomm doesn’t make one. So it can’t be better in every way.

    It can be better subjectively to some people. But objectively the Vision Pro has specs other manufacturers literally won’t be able to do for at least 2-3 years, and not for 500 bucks.

  • Cracking down on the under the table stuff would kill so many birds.

    Like how much migrant labor is used for making cattle feed?

    Whoops, meat just became the new caviar. You’ll have a steak for Christmas or your birthday. Lower meat consumption leads to fewer emissions, lower cancer rates.

    The cost of non-meat foods might actually go down while paying legal migrants and citizens a living wage.

  • It's hard to answer your question entirely right now, but many batteries end up in non-car applications for a few years before they run out of useful life. A car battery with 50% of its original 80kwh is still a LOT of juice.

    https://www.greentecauto.com/product-category/repurposed-batteries https://www.secondlife-evbatteries.com/collections/ev-battery/Module https://evolveelectrics.com/products/tesla-model-s-lithium-ion-battery

    So even before recycling there is a LOT of reuse possible.

    But ultimately when it comes to the recycling process, as grids continue to go carbon-free, the amount of energy used to recycle batteries becomes irrelevant as long as there is an ecological upside.

  • They’re both too old to run and a comedy reel of gaffes could easily be produced for both.

    Any attack on Biden’s age that doesn’t include an attack on Trumps age is ridiculous.

    As far as the polls, It’s up to Biden’s campaign, court cases, and the ability of the mainstream to get people to the voting booths. Swapping out candidates now is suicide.

  • Take a look at Taiwan's inventory of anti-ship missiles and coastal defenses and get back to me. Last I checked Taiwan has roughly 1 harpoon for every Chinese combat ship, assuming China wants to commit their entire navy to the invasion.

    If China doesn't commit every ship to the invasion, now you have more than 1 harpoon per Chinese ship.

    Nevermind other types of anti-ship defenses and domestically produced missiles.

    And again, Taiwan has had these weapons for DECADES. They train on them, then know how to deploy them. It will not take days to respond, because they are ready. They will simply launch and the missiles will sink some ships.

    If China decides to invade it will be at the cost of a significant portion of their navy and army before they even reach land. Then China has to face significant risk of retaliation from Taiwan's cruise missile fleet, some of which can hit as far as Beijing.

    Then at this point China will risk their various border disputes being contested.

    And all this for what? Some destroyed chip factories and the CCP flag over Taipei?

    China can certainly invade Taiwan, but my point is the cost is too high for it to be a logical move.

  • You can almost set your clock to the protests outside of US military bases in South Korea.

    Like there are US personnel whose entire mission is to die as a speed bump during a North Korean invasion and yet many South Koreans want them out.

    People are dumb.