I was out in NYC when the iphone 2007 came out, without an app store and without 3G broadband, and I don’t think it was that entertaining to the people I saw with it. It was still mostly just for text communications.

It wasn’t until iphone 3G in 2008 that you had a full fledged browser with unlimited broadband capable of streaming audio, maps, and visiting websites with graphics. And, of course, new apps coming out everyday.

The battery was also not good enough to use long for a long time.

Not that the speeding is justified, but I would still bet on the computer continuously processing multiple video feeds reacting and stopping quicker than a human in almost all incidents.

Waymo takes safety way more (no pun intended) seriously than Tesla, and they still hit a kid in a school zone, because that's a very challenging environment: there are parked cars, the density of kids who might dart out into the road from behind them is way higher than normal, etc. You should apply a higher level of caution in school zones even if you have an advanced sensor suite (and Tesla doesn't since they insist on doing everything via cameras).

>The problem for everyone else is not simply that Amazon ships quickly, I almost don't even care about that. The thing is that Amazon ships & delivers on a reliable predicted schedule. When I click an item on Amazon and it says "arrives by Tuesday" then 95/100 times it does. I shop at specific competitors who can do similar (B&H, Sweetwater, etc).

I don’t care so much for specific delivery dates (although they are a plus). Most important are free returns. Hence, I prioritize shopping at Costco/Target/Walmart/Home Depot/Lowes/Old Navy/Amazon/etc.

iPhone 13 mini, ios 27.0.1, and Siri turned on the ceiling fan along with the lights when I asked Siri to turn on the bedroom lights. Don’t see any reason to believe Siri claims.

Who is deciding compensation/hiring/terminations? Are there separate leaders in each nation independent of the others?

Deloitte employees, former as well as current, are not allowed to share details about hiring process, management structure or compensation schemes. Enjoy.

*cringes in multiple ways*

Yes, there are. Each is run independently.

This is fairly typical for accountancy and law firms.

More explanation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_services_networks

WTF - I am being downvoted for explaining this above? Pure facts!

Deloitte is a global network of partnerships, which has a corporate structure with liability rules that are different from a regular corporation.

You can read more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloitte#Legal_structure

Yes, that link was trivial to find. But it does not expound on how the decision making process works. Each nation’s Deloitte organization is presumably able to avoid blame for actions done in any other nation, so the question is are they all operated completely independently? Is there no hierarchy above the national level?

This should help you get a better picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_services_network

>"not cost effective to automate" (which is effectively everything)

There still seems to be a wide gulf in automation capabilities and things that require human dexterity, such as doing things for the infirm. Even just cooking and laundry seem quite a bit away. I guess the original tweet does mention this:

>Capability peaks in domains that are digital, verifiable and economically valuable.

Driving is the most impressive one so far, in my opinion.

>I applaud Apple and co for what they have created, but even drugs have patent expiries, eventually becoming generics.

In the US, all patents have 20 year terms (from initial patent filing). Of course, patents don’t tell you how to make something, so it’s not sufficient for something like smartphones or medicine.

Patents that don't tell you how to make something should not be enforceable, this kind of knowledge transfer is the whole premise of patent protections.

I expect people to do at least some due diligence, and adults to be skeptical about lofty claims in marketing.

And I expect regulator to take down dangerous, damaging, or otherwise user hostile products away from consumer markets.

I guess we don‘t always get what we expect.

That creates incentives to lie, A/B test your lies and when they finally work, blaming everyone but the liar.

Do you mean make any shitty app or website they can think of? Because I don’t see any reason to see an increase in the supply of medicine, plumbing and electrical services, etc.

Maybe self driving is a soon realized benefit.

> Do you mean make any shitty app or website they can think of?

Well yeah, if everyone can make shit, only the best shit will make it

and AI might help people sort through the shit too (unless it's cancered by ads, like with all the freemium games on iOS, which was supposed to be a "posh" platform)

While I would not pay for Tesla assisted self driving, I have seen it provide daily utility to many drivers, especially older ones.

At only $100 per month on a $40k vehicle, I consider it to be a serious product and not just a parlor trick, since no other car seller comes close to offering it anywhere near that price.