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Ball says that the blame for all of this can’t be pinned to a single thing, like capitalism, mismanagement, Covid-19, or even interest rates. It also involves development costs, how studios are staffed, consumers’ spending habits, and game pricing. “This storm is so brutal,” he says, “because it is all of these things at once, and none have really alleviated since the layoffs began.”

Huh. Baldur’s Gate 3 blew the doors off. They had the same Capitalism, Covid-19 and interest rates. They had the same development costs, consumer spending habits and reasonable game pricing. They had good management and no layoffs. All this success selling to a gaming segment that makes up a tiny sliver of the overall market. Maybe some of those game developer leaders should ask Sven how he did it. Or, you know, listen to him because he already told everyone how they did it. Or not.

Apple’s (and by extension every VR platform) big mistake is the lack of a Killer App for VR.

If they didn’t have a compelling use case, them researching and building any VR device is a waste of time, money and effort. Walking out on-stage and saying, “Now you can see dinosaurs in VR” just isn’t a compelling use case, even if they weren’t expensive.

To me, a decent intermediate step would have been, “Have and unlimited number of huge screens for less than the cost of one big, high-quality monitor.” would have been compelling if it were made small and light enough. Finding a way to continue using the current keyboard and mouse would have made it much more affordable and approachable.

To get a conviction they’re gonna have to get 13 billionaires to serve jury duty.

a real understanding a real view of how bad a country can get

How many people died from Covid from refusing to wear masks and refusing to get vaxed during Trump? Then Trump claimed credit for getting the vaccine made.

Yet here we are.

Politicians do not benefit from an educated populace.

Just wait until the next presidential administration. Then you can call them “alternative facts”.

CSI:
“Enhance image! Enhance image! Enhance image! Enhance image! Enhance image! There! Whaddya know? That image looks just like that guy we already have in holding for being homeless”.

If caught, this guy could be convicted of a felony. He has also shot someone on “5th Avenue”. Likely this guy could get elected president and avoid serving any time. There’s precedent.

Looking like gun violence is the American guillotine.

In that case the jury conversation will go something like this: “I wonder why the judge won’t allow anyone to know the victim’s occupation?”
The second the jury finds out this guy was a health-insurance CEO, half of them will shrug and go “time served”.

Turns out it wasn’t the gunshots that killed him. Insurance declined because he wasn’t covered for that caliber and he wound up dying of infection.

/s

When used by marketers, “up to” should be understood by customers as, “we guarantee you’ll never get more than”.

How much hubris/ignorance this guy has to believe his algorithm is accurate enough to detect “10%” of employees were deadbeats? What precision! If it found 50% deadbeats, that would mean the algorithm might be working.
The worst companies have only 10% deadbeats? Any company with only 10% deadbeats means their management team is doing a great job hiring/managing. Any company that only 50% deadbeat managers would be outstanding.

My theory is: free publicity. Just like the fashion industry comes up with ridiculous clothes that no one would ever wear, attention whores will constantly do outrageous things so that people will talk about them. The number of electrons spilled over this stupid mouse port placement over the years is uncountable. But the repeated conversations keep Apple in the public consciousness as a fashionista.

If I didn’t know better, I would say this sounds like Farley giggling and winking in order to make a play for his next CEO gig.

I just tell them I don’t have a phone. Even if I’m still holding it in my hand. Most don’t want to engage. They likely figure they’re not payed enough for that.