eric @ ericisshort @lemmy.world

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Only song I know of his is the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, and it friggin slaps. Are there any others that reach the same level?

Huh? How was cancelling the third most popular phone OS in the US good for consumers or in any way increasing competition in the industry?

The word you’re looking for is “reckon.” “Recon” is an abbreviation for reconnaissance.

Especially so close to an active war zone where another party could easily be blamed.

When they pass all those millions to a cousin, they can be taxed.

This would be bad because it would make people not want to be billionaires

-billionaires probably

Hair dye is the fountain of youth.

He just really needs a win right now, and this win is so pathetic. Just let him have his incredibly expensive truth social, because that’s what he’s trying to turn Twitter into.

Agreed

*kid actually named four seasons total landscaping

It’s much less of a hot take for people in the tech community, but it is for many artists and creatives who feel threatened by AI’s potential to devalue what they’ve dedicated their lives to.

No one is saying we charge a piece of software with a crime. Corporations aren’t human, but they can absolutely be charged with copyright violations, so being human isn’t a requirement for this at all.

Depending on the situation, you would either charge the user of the software (if they directed the software to violate copyright) and/or the company that makes the software (if they negligently release an LLM that has been proven to produce results that violate copyright).

Yeah, we’re saying the same thing, but for the sake of brevity, I might have spoken in a way that led you to believe I’m saying something else. I did not know about the rumors of the new SE using the mini frame, so that is some slightly good news for the small phone gang.

Lol. You would think that, but I’m a small person counter example, and the market is proving there are more like me than those who want small phones.

Right, but I’m pretty sure they never said anything about discontinuing it altogether when the iPhone 14 came out, and most people just assumed they were just skipping a year on it. It wasn’t until right before they released the 15 lineup that they said the smaller phone was actually discontinued.

And that only add validity to Apple’s reasoning. The small phone market is too small.

You said they are just saying it’s poor sales, but it actually isn’t the reason. That would make their posted reason a lie.

If marketing is not based in reality, yes, it is lying, and there is nothing toxic about calling it what it is. There is plenty of dishonest marketing out there, and some of it is even legal. But I would hardly call a discontinuation announcement “marketing” since you’re literally doing the opposite of trying to sell them the product. You’re telling them they can no longer buy the product.

So you have no alternative theory, but you’re just assuming Apple are lying about their reason because they won’t share their company data that led them to that conclusion?