Charlie Stross
Imagine the Silly Valley monetization model as applied to a coffee cup.
It does one thing. You can't sell accessories, just replacements that will potentially work just as good as new for 40 years Turn into a fashion accessory with new designs, sure, but the *core functionality* is a mature product.
But that doesn't stop the AI bros from trying to sell you the AI-assisted cloud-enabled coffee filter …
https://www.linova.ai/products-coffee.html
https://mstdn.social/@bjn/113809933928054060
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦
Only slightly less ridiculous than this product to spy your cat
Charlie Stross
@goatsarah I have seen them, the money is not the silliest thing about them.
Rachel Greenham
@cstross @bjn my M1Pro MacBook Pros (I ended up with two of them by accident) are now in their fourth year, and it still feels weird how i feel absolutely no pressure to upgrade computers that old, and can't see anything on the horizon that'll bring that pressure. And I always was an eager upgrader.
Apple Silicon seems to have (accidentally?) brought on that market maturity. They can only ruin it by enshittifying services, and there's Asahi Linux for that day.
Charlie Stross
@StrangeNoises @bjn Same. We've got one Mac update to do in the next few months— @feorag is still on an Intel iMac, I think their next will be an M4Pro Mac Mini—but then I reckon we'll be stable for several yers.
BUT … Tim Cook is 64. I expect him to retire by 70. And after Tim departs I think it likely that Apple will be no more enshittifiction-proof than Google or Microsoft.
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