Apple has historically been able to keep prices the same even when everyone expected them to increase. Not a great sign that even Apple, with supply/pricing usually locked up years in advance, has to raise prices.
"Wife is on the plane. Guy had a speaker named bomb. He just confessed to it. He said he named it forever ago and forgot about it. He’s 16 years old. Wife’s friend is sitting next to him as they are questioning him."
I was trying to make electrical contacts that didn't dissolve within minutes when charged with a little bit of sweat on them.
Learned about HEAs (can't remember where), saw some fantastic material properties (rather high yield strengths, solid elastic modulus), and was pleasantly surprised at how much electrolytic corrosion they could resist.
Then one of our money people got a quote from the vendor to see how much it would cost to put it in our product, laughed, and said, "Back to the drawing board you go!" I think it was something like 20x more expensive than a copper alloy contact.
It looks like a car by someone who used to design consumer electronics and spent only a cursory amount of time understanding automotive history, design, aesthetics, etc.
The incentives at Meta are all wrong, so they will forever spin their wheels trying to latch onto something the next big thing while they continue to simply be a social media company.
Ternus is not a hardware genius. He's a hardware engineer that rose through the ranks at Apple because, from what I've heard from Apple hardware engineers, Dan Riccio liked him "like a son."
I'm specifically referring to the attacks on Iran that started this mess ~6 weeks ago. If the US and Iran agree, but Israel decides to continue bombing campaigns, then this ceasefire will be very short-lived.
