Yeah, my time is worth more than that savings.

Might also be non-AI consumers reassessing their storage needs. If SSD’s are expensive and you don’t necessarily NEED the faster speed, you’ll hop to the cheaper choice.

Nah, for me, this has absolutely nothing to do with AI. I don’t use my phone for nav and can easily leave it at home. This is 100% about security and reducing tracking and PII. Not to mention, not putting all the pieces together in one handy, easily leakable database.

Okay, from a naive POV, if this was only used for that purpose, sure it’s too bad. But there’s logging, theres extra info gathered here.

Scanning a plate instantly enters at a minimum, into a DB:

• car info
• location
• timestamp
• speed
• owner

Do that a multiple times to the same car across the area, every day, now you can extrapolate where they go, when they go, predict what they’re doing in the future, the route they take the likely speed they’ll go and all sorts of other privacy invading info.

This data could be used to accuse you of a crime, of cheating on your spouse, of speeding without a speed camera based on distance between scans, doing nefarious in their eyes things, etc.

Edit: and just imagine if this data leaked, which it likely would. Stalkers would love it, among theives and all sorts of other people.

If they also view this as a bubble, they have to weigh how long the bubble will last, and what happens to the investment in equipment required after the bubble pops. It may not be worth the investment if they think it’ll only last 1-2 yrs and it takes them 1-1.5 to spin that up.

Not to mention all the extra costs in raw materials/logistics of getting more materials into the factory and more chips out. You start shifting to “can the local infrastructure handle that?” Or is it near capacity and will either need improvements as well or if they’d be better off building a new facility elsewhere and everything associated with that.

It’s a complicated mess, and again, might just be a bubble.

A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head.

Or… they could use a thunderbolt/usb-c wire and not pollute the wireless spectrum.

I feel like if my kid was the age that needed this sort of distraction free phone, I’m not spending $250 on it. $100 would likely be my cutoff.

As it is, my teenager has a used iPhone SE I only paid $150 for. (She’s super anti-social network so I don’t really feel bad as she doesn’t spend that much time on it.)

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

Still a banger.