Bringing full colour _and_ high refresh rate would move these out of the eBook world into more into every day technology. There's definitely a market for colour eInk monitors, tablets, phones, etc. but the technology just isn't there yet. More and more people are wanting to disconnect from tech or at least minimize its addictiveness and a colour eInk screen would be a great step for people. That way they can still watch youtube, take photos, scroll their apps but the experience will feel less saturated and alluring.
Not sure if you are being facetious, but how would eink displays with the same color vibrancy and refresh rates of conventional displays help "disconnect from tech"?
Not the person you responded to, but basically ereaders are more appliance-like than phones. Being able to put color-requiring documents and textbooks - which tend to require a lot of flipping back and forth, and thus need high 'refresh' rates (BTW e-ink screens don't 'refresh', they just update) - into an ereader let's you go offline more completely.
Obviously ereaders are appliance-like in part because e-ink screens have bad color and update rates, but at least they'd be practical outside in direct sunlight, and it's not like ereaders would suddenly become technically impossible to be appliance-like.
Yeah, Personally I kind of don't want fast refresh rates, that would kind of make it more difficult to disconnect as there would be less friction in scrolling stuff and youtube
Do you "demand money" when you do the job you were contracted to do? You make it sound like they're money grubbing and greedy for expecting payment for their services.
Whatever it may sound like, the illustrator didn't just do something nice and help the fellow human (client). If you say "but the illustrator needs the money to support himself", maybe OP also needs the money, maybe his grandparents are ill and have medical bills.
I'm sure it'll be a permission the user can toggle. So they won't be taking away the ability for apps to see all the files but they'll be adding an extra layer of security so users can choose what an app can see. They're being light on details at the moment though.
But this is what it is currently. At the moment, not only is it a toggle, but unlike almost all other permissions, you can't just request the permission.
You have to send the user to the system settings pane for it and have them manually toggle it on there.
It's hard to imagine how it could be more explicit than it is currently. I imagine they have something draconian planned.
I had the first iPhone and distinctly remember telling people "I have the entire internet in my pocket at all times" and people finding it strange. I said "I never really have to log off Facebook or Digg" and my friends didn't understand what I meant.
Heck, someone in the emulation community dropped a preview that they're a couple of months out from creating a Switch game recompiler - which generates native x86 windows builds AOT. It's incredible.
I have to imagine that AI has significantly increased the velocity of technically demanding hobby projects.
The recompilation scene has exploded recently. Seems like it could be the future of retrogaming where you get an actual native build of every game. Also opens the door to full mod support of old games as well as being able to run more demanding games on hand held devices that previously didn't have the power to run certain emulators.
That would be ~$1,995 today due to inflation. That's basically what the entry-level 14 inch MacBook Pro costs today. You're comparing the Pro to the Air's pricing.
Yeah, Apple has spent 3 years each on the 5nm and 3nm nodes with TSMC. There are some reports [1] that it will jump to 1.4nm after 2 years due to AI but there's no real proof. The source is Digitimes who are frequently wrong with their predictions and rumors.
I imagine either they or others can take their discoveries and write a real driver now, though. The hard part was always the reversing the black box system.
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