Find it really interesting that Google Cloud Platform customers get access to this immediately.
Bodes well for Google cloud, putting out your latest and greatest eases my thoughts as to whether its a first class citizen within Google. (I know the head of the Cloud unit is on Google's board which was a major sign of taking 'cloud' seriously.)
I can discuss and hold and opinion then voice it in this thread, which I did which has given me useful advice and perspective, you can just say i'm wrong and point out why possibly anchored by pointing out your experience.
Don't go low and pick on grammar then imply the person you're in discussion can't have an opinion in this hacker news thread because I'm not as serious as you and even previously calling me a lair due to my grammar not being satisfactory.
You've clearly got experience that can help people, instead of trying to make people feel small, hows about using it as an anchor for real points in a discussion and then people like me can learn something good instead of learning how to inspire this torrent of vitriol bouncing back and forth.
Thank you for your insight (G3 is a long time), genuinely helpful and levelled my head out!
I never meant them in absolute terms, it's just me venting that im missing reasons to want this version (after always wanting a mac after any keynote in the past but never being able to afford when back then) after waiting a little while and just disappointed this time around.
I call my windows desktop a desktop and an Imac desktop an Imac or 'imac' because that's how I make the distinction because I have used Windows for the majority of my life, don't care as long as people know what I mean when Im saying something.
Im not some elitist 'iOS' developer, I don't even put 'iOS' first on my CV yet I enjoy it and even had put out an app related to a hobby as a CV filler and for the fun of it.
None that doesn't lessen that I'd rather use different hardware but cant.
It's not that im prohibited from developing, its that the value proposition of a macbook pro is going down and I have no other option other than a macbook pro, all these changes are detrimental to me and I have no alternative.
Can't use (now) old magsafe, can't simply connect hdmi to current screen without an adaptor, yubikey will be useless and will need a replacement, adaptor for headphones because I use hd598s and will never use wireless headphones, need to get used to new f keys when using vscode shortcuts when meddling with non ios or react native code.
Nothing is a death knell, but feels like they're choosing a death by 1000 paper cuts with these incremental changes.
I honestly can't point to a gain except maybe able to click on a emote faster using the magic bar and other odds and sods that a magic bar offers.
Latency, Ops, Cost, specialised features like latency based routing (nearest datacentre to the user making a request).
It comes down to the same reasons as someone using the cloud or a cdn, why spend more running it yourself (staff, equipment etc) instead getting someone who's who job it is to run that specific piece of software to the absolute best of their ability.
It's just not a core competency of almost all companies.
I think it is education the is the biggest differentiator of this generation and that boils down to school district (and everything this entails race, wealth etc).
That something so important is decided at an early level of one's life that has wide reaching implications is quite frankly a disgrace.
Only the most endeavours break the cycle and they are too few and far between that are not really encouraged on most levels of society around the world due to the norms.
During Google's hardware/AI Assistant a point was made about wanting google assistant to emote based on context and be personal to the user, 'A personal google for everyone.
This plays to your suggestion of emotional bonding being a key need for AI assistant's.
Though having it called 'Google assistant' seems to break that connection, though imagine something is in the pipeline being tested and analysed over and over to see what works with AI connecting with a user.
https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/
Also them starting the project along with the knowledge they have internally scaling containers helps.