What people mean by not wanting AI - what you said - is so brain dead obvious that to claim not to understand is an absolute lie.

This reminds me of the Microsoft antitrust suit. Microsoft claimed Explorer couldn’t be “removed” because other apps used it internally. No shit Sherlock, what people wanted was the icon removed from the desktop and the direct browsing experience to be user’s choice.

You can’t be serious? AWS blows kindle out of the water in complexity and impact. Basic AWS started in 2006, Kindle in 2007.

The number of products under the AWS that are more impactful to society and more profitable to Amazon is vast.

The word used was "innovative", though.

Who offered IaaS and PaaS before AWS?? That is revolutionary.

"Amazon hasn’t built anything innovative since the Kindle."

That was in 2007; S3 and EC2 were in 2006. The pace of innovation at AWS has declined, which is partially to be expected as it matures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Temple probably counts, too. They had auto-provisioned VPSes long before EC2. I'd also count VMware ESX.

Since there has never been a time in history when this hasn’t happened

The only solid thing I’ve seen for brain health is maintaining physical health

Yeah, if your goal is brain health, you're better off spending the time exercising, by a mile. But learning another language may be more enjoyable and certainly has social benefits, so I can understand people choosing it.

Buy a guzzler get guzzled I guess?

That’s the whole point. Make people not want to come here.

It’s past that point. China would take the lead in three months.

Even if they were 95% as good, but 30% of the price, they would win

Simple dead hangs are a good start. Lots of people can’t hang for 30 seconds

Manufacturing is brutal at efficiency. Every generation they aggressively cut material use and process energy usage.

Look at any device that had a lot of metal years ago.

The second part is phones have replaced a lot of people’s “stuff”. Young people prefer phones to cars even.

You can loads of “stuff” on your phone and it’s just software.

I can spend more on a phone then I did on my last car, although I pay half my car's purchase price every year I pay for insurance so I shouldn't be bragging!

>Young people prefer phones to cars even

I mean, I probably do, too. I certainly use my phone much more often (I live in Berlin). But please, can we not make cars smartphones on wheels? I don't want to throw away my car after five years because the software is outdated, the CPU has become too weak and the battery is worn out. (Not a dig against electric cars, their batteries usually last much longer)

I get your point, and adore my Fiero, but most software updates to cellphones are required because they're networked.

Cars don't have to be, nor (IMO) should be internet-connected. So if the CPU in the infotainment system was sufficient at launch, and there's no reason to update the (not-internet-connected) software, then the CPU will continue to be sufficient, and the software being out of date is irrelevant.

Not to defend the modern tablet-on-dash, internet-connected, reports-your-sexual-preference "car", just to point out that the transition to digital isn't, by itself, bad

Check out the Slate truck/suv

I'd be more interested in a car, the kind that people had before they went mad. Smaller frontal area, lower center of gravity, lighter weight. More economic, faster, more fun to drive. I don't want to sit high neither, lower is more fun.

Three IDEs in one day. What’s going on? This, txt, and Rune