Just because many products didn't impress at first and did well later, doesn't matter you can ignore that the opposite is even more frequent.

But yours, is especially an apples and oranges comparison.

The original iPhone was a flawed internet-less take on a thriving exploding market (mobile).

VR's market just questionable.

i think its fair to say vr market is less than questionable. in theory ar/vr already has enough features to be worth using. in reality people dont want to put things on their face

i have an avp and use it daily. but it turns out im weird and most people simply dont want to put screens on their face

We have a similar situation in Italy with garbage.

Nobody wants new waste dumps anywhere near (tens of miles) of their own houses, and each time there's an insane amount of blockades and protests.

Bureaucracy gets very messy because towns and provinces and regions (equivalent to less federated us states, more or less) and the central government start having legal disputes over those things that drag decades.

Long term a waste dump (landfill) can be good. Cap it off and it becomes park land or sports field.

I'm a native italian speaker with polish ancestry.

I've tried to do the accent oracle test few times and it catches me being Italian with a 90%+ confidence.

The interesting thing is that if I try to fake a more english accent like American...it tells me I'm polish.

Which is odd because I don't really have a polish accent and don't speak it that well. I sound Italian even in Polish.

https://start.boldvoice.com/accent-oracle

I don't care and I'm sick of these arguments.

Yes, you're 100% right, but A is always responsible for his output, and if the output's crap then he should either step up or refresh his CV.

If any of my colleagues (or me), tried to use such a card the road to unemployment would be a quick one.

I personally can't buy phones without physical dual sim.

Dual eSIMs when travelling have failed me too many times.

Everything is moving to esim.

Enshittification at its finest to save a $.

Yet another attempt by carriers and phone manufacturers to take away control from users.

I don't think you're giving much advantage to anybody really on such a small timeframe.

Semiconductors are like container ships, they are extremely slow and hard to steer, you plan today the products you'll release in 2030.

Pretty much it, albeit I think very few appreciate how high's the risk of leaving with nothing in their hands.

Valuation models probably begin to break down when the potential payoff is control of our solar system as we know it.

OTOH it seems like mere single billions can buy control over the US if you're brazen enough, so perhaps these stock market suckers are overpaying with their trillions.

I wonder how expensive it would be to buy control of PRC in a similarly creative (but very different) way.

Yes, a proof allows me to not have to handle the case at all.

> can someone explain what this means for the general economy?

Borrowing rates reflect other indices like 10-year treasuries, not short-term ones.