why?

80% of all devices on the internet are already using blink.

why do you want more CPU cores and better performance than the M4, if not for running local AI models?

Essentially ever other use case for a computer.

Whether you're playing games, or editing videos, or doing 3D work, or trying to digest the latest bloated react mess on some website.. ;)

Photo & video post-processing...

I… think you’re joking, but I can’t be sure.

COU cores aren’t relevant to running AI?

gold is overvalued too!

I wonder how much would Google pay to a new owner of Chrome for a default search engine deal.

With Chrome's market share? 10+ billion a year, certainly, as that would be only 3% of the ad volume.

Can google sell, then have Alphabet Holding create Chrome2 based on Chromium, ripping off Perplexity?

Jesus how the fuck does advertising make such ungodly amounts of money.

Because we spent an entire generation of the world’s most brilliant engineers on optimizing ad revenue.

Makes me sad, we could have been on Mars by now if we had decided that spaceflight was more important than social media.

anyone who spends 10 years writing performance reviews and rebuilding a service they already rebuilt last year, all to collect RSUs, was never going to land us on mars

Because if you don't pay they bury you so low you will never sell anything.

Try putting food on the table without advertising your business. How much does your employer pay for ads?

Because it works really well

You need to pay to exist

why is $8/m not enough for them to remove all ads? do they really make that much back from you?

Does it matter, if they can get your $8/month, plus some ad revenue? You don't last long in the C-suite if you're not interested in perpetual profit growth.