China has more engineers involved in their government. Who tend to be more clear- thinking let’s solve the problem at hand. Which explains why they have so many infrastructure projects going on across their country.
It also partially explains why they pursue are open to multiple solutions to a problem. And it certainly explains why they looked at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and that thorium research and built two thorium reactors and will probably build many more because guess what?
They figured out how to make it work and apparently solved that alloy molten salt problem, it took about 10-15 years but they are on schedule. to deploy many more reactors after 2029.
They also switched or are are in the process of switching from lithium batteries to sodium ion batteries which is something else they didn’t have to do, they could hung on to lithium through 2040 milking, but instead they are moving on, which is also something that can happen when you have a bunch of engineers involved in the decision-making as opposed to those finance/MBA people who have a tendency to want to milk people for as long as possible.
The usual grifters have had their chance in most Western governments. Lawyers, landlords, the gentry, etc… I am skeptical but the present bunch that is usually very well represented in most western/eastern governments have had plenty of time and opportunity and look where we are at now.
There’s a chance of failure in any human endeavor. but I am sick of lawyers, bankers, landlords, lobbyists and various other grifters hanging on currently in most western governments no one can say that they haven’t had their chance. There needs to be a wider variety of professions involved at/in the legislative branch.
Maybe it might lead to Serbia turning it around. The fewer lawyers, lobbyists, professional politicians, landlords, real estate people and bankers, who have had their chance around the world running various governments, to no avail in many cases. A wider variety of professions in the legislative body is needed and it can’t hurt anymore than what has gone on in the last 80 years.
I understand China has a large number of engineers. Involved in their government in comparison to the United States…
Google, Meta and Microsoft’s track record. Is not that good beyond their core in fact, they’re horrible when the playing field is level, Nadella right now seems to be the most vulnerable. It’s copilot or bust..
They didn’t. They bought out another company. Did Meta create WhatsApp? and Snapchat? Everything else that Meta tried to stick their foot in has failed, but Muse seems to be promising. Both are very profitable ad companies. With a few me-too hardware products. Ads bring home the bacon.
Virtually nothing. Their processor is at least seven years behind the times. It’s not profitable. It’s just a Me-too loss leader to service the ad machine. 3D models and data-centers are built on top of that.
All Google loss leaders to service the ad company, Microsoft is also running into the same problem. Xbox, Blizzard games and Copilot are not profitable and to top it off. Between the two of them, they have spent upwards of $330 billion dollars in 2026 on AI models and AI CapEx. Microsoft laying off 60,000-70,000 people didn’t come out of thin air.
It will be interesting to see what happens in the midterms, because the current administration, have been going after Hispanics and Asians without hesitation. Maybe those groups will finally learn something. If you’re black or American Indian, you know the score.
The Republicans lost California because Pete Wilson and the Republican Party in California (late 1980’s) could not shut their mouths up, demonizing Hispanics at every turn, it turned the whole state around to the Democrats, and the same group is slowly but surely turning Texas blue with every year that goes by. And the same is also true of Arizona and New Mexico, just keep demonizing Hispanics. It’s not going work out in the long term.
The next governor of California will be a democrat of Hispanic dissent the Republicans had better be nice/respectful to him because they are losing the Southwest slowly but surely, every year, and being respectful also includes Mexico.
What they are today is the only vertical computer company left from the 1980s. Who else is there today at scale?, Apple is in a very good position in comparison to most of the competition. Apple need only to solve the memory problem.
That is actually more important, because just recently one of the members of the three-headed cartel said/reiterated again that (memory gouging) is going to last till 2030 and beyond.
Because they decided to skip it and move forward to the M7 jumping two generations ahead with their pro computers, why not? Seems reasonable in light of their competition wasting billions of dollars on AI models and data centers.
I hope they find time to address the memory problem. Like they addressed their processor problem and their modem problem.
The Apple Silicon design group can certainly do something about it. And Apple certainly has the money after all, they didn’t squander it on AI models.
Took 13 years for Apple Silicon, 6 years to design an Apple modem and it probably will take 3 to 5 years for in-house memory if Apple chooses to do something about the memory cartel, the Vision Pro probably is two generations away, and Apple is probably 2 generations M8 away from with having GPUs beyond the Nvidia 5090, in tech worth while iteration takes time.
Apple is the only vertical computer company left from the 1980s. That’s operating system plus hardware under one roof, all the other companies are dead Sun, SGI, Digital etc…, Microsoft and Google dabble in hardware and both do nothing but lose money in the hardware area because just releasing a Me-too badly made product doesn’t work or I should say isn’t profitable.
The largest acquisition in Apple’s entire history is only 3 billion dollars (Beats). Apple doesn’t waste money like Microsoft, Google or Meta on large fit them in later acquisitions.
Popular with people who want to give a kid a computer between elementary and high school age, does everything a kid needs. With the bonus of not having to worry about your kid wasting time playing games.
Software is the same as it ever was, if there was more competition, i.e, all those vertical computer companies (that did hardware and operating system software) that used to exist in the 1980s, maybe things would be better?
Maybe choice might come back when some talented kindergartener or junior high schooler who doesn’t know any better comes along and kickstarts the process all over again?
A user of alternative systems from the 1980s, early 90s…
Wouldn’t the time be better spent taking a license out with Arm Holdings ala’ Softbank and designing something from the ground up on your own hardware, the screenshots look like something from the 1990s from 35 years ago.
The age of Nandella coming to an end, Copilot, Xbox, AI, missing mobile, the ill-fated Surface team up with Nvidia, the triple ill-fated Surface team up with Qualcomm, one massive buyout after another like Blizzard games the current management is lost and listing at sea, massive AI spending: $140 billion Capex through 2026 with no real profit in sight…