You say that one key is experimenting on pets(which will have huge barriers in the west). In china, eating dogs is legal.So why haven't we seen such research coming from china, and especially successful drugs from there?
Also on the horizon there is 3d chip manufacturing technology(3d-monolithic) ,with extremely large bandwidth between the two different layers of the chip,possibly being gpu + dram.
>> Is Apple Radio really going to add that much to your bottom line?
They will try to use radio in 2 way:
1. Make it unqiue and hard to copy, to add one more reason for people to use their device.
2. When making content deals, it's hard to get good deals if you come without a large crowd of subscribers.So apple plan to to use your radio subscription as content negotiation tool, and than upsell you a tv service - and there's a lot of money there.
But still , that calls for something like UBER with democratic vote over it's decisions. And since most people will be consumers ,not employees of that service , the incentive towards how to manage it's drivers would be the same.
Worker protection should apply equally to everyone, not give preferential treatment to one group(taxi drivers) at the expense of most other groups who just have minimum wage laws and osha.
Android supports pressure sensitive touch at the API level since 2009, and There's a phone from 2015 that supports this from huawei. But they didn't create useful interactions with it.
I'm not sure. With proterro working on making sugar at 1/3 of the cost(5 cents/pound) using synthetic bio, with solazyme selling specialized food components to the food industry, and with genomatica's technologies already running what seems like competitive BDO plants - it seems that SynBio can compete on cost.
In general i agree - on the innovation front, Apple isn't so strong.But like it did with maps - through the sheer power of investment ,together with owning the platform/user and a bit of time ,now maps dominate IOS mapping apps. Maybe they could achieve some growth by continuing doing that ?
Also you mention opportunities being missed. Can you please expand ?
20 years is a long time. What if virtual reality becomes the preferred entertainment method ? What if something other than phones becomes the new status symbol ? What if android manages to create an android status symbol phone or a unique android experiences ? What if due to some apps iMessage loses some of it's power ? what if itunes loses some of it's power ?
Not really. For example it was maybe possible to reliably warn other Jews. Or maybe help other Jews in countries that might in the future be aimed by Hitler find refuge.
How does the work for stowers is arranged ? do the computer give them specific sets of items to stow ? or is arranged according to the order the goods arrive ?
And what is this pallet land ? what's the benefit?
>> the horror of the concentration camps was not well known to the public during the war
But it was pretty well known for the british and american governments(since 1941 or at the latest 1942) , and even to this day, some details of said knowledge(the intelligence reports on decryptions on concentration camps communication) are not availble to historians.
One has to wonder why.
Actually when reading more about it, even if the American public would have known, it probably wouldn't have mattered much, judging by later genocides :
""no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence[genocide]. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on."
I don't think it's really random.Since it's dictated by the computer, even though it looks random, i'm sure there are some patterns in the order(for example there are items that statistically sell together) ,But maybe they keep it as a trade secret , only to be known by a small group of developers and managers.
Say you we're a customer that bought an iPhone every 2 years.
Now Apple's yearly plan looks like:
1. A new iPhone every year + Apple care
2. Same price
3. Don't have to deal with salesman at carrier store.
So more people will be tricked for new iPhone every year.
And once this becomes the standard , since Apple is a status symbol - suddenly buying a phone every 2 years carries less status.