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Did you not watch the keynote where they highlighted that Unity is a development partner?


I saw that but it doesn't help change my mind. A lot of fun PC games are made with Unity, but not the kind that really benefit from the immersion of VR [0]. Meanwhile, at the end of last year they merged with ironSource—a mobile ad platform—which suggests Unity continues to see their future as being focused on mobile and F2P.

It's possible that Apple will once again define the market, but choosing Unity is not good evidence they've correctly identified the VR games market that's already there.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39750107-Games-Made-W...


I’m less concerned with the “VR Games as a market segment” and more concerned with the “all video games will eventually, essentially be AR/VR” concept.

Like you I’m less than convinced that Apple knows what they’re talking about/doing with Unity, but time will tell.


Sam has a pretty active Twitter account. Apparently a movie is also supposedly in the works. https://twitter.com/samantar


The tone of this article feels like fear-mongering. There are bioplastics which are less harmful on the environment, are compostable and sourced from 100% renewable and sustainable sources. Some bioplastics like PLA are biocompatible; sutures and tea bags are made from it. We're still in the early stages of this technology and it seems premature to tar everything with such a broad brush.


This was happening to me on Instagram as well. Using CloudFlare WARP+ and Instagram would deactivate my account arbitrarily. Figured it out only when I turned it off and the issues went away.


Michael Young who coined the word, commented about it almost exactly 20 years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment


Wow. Thanks for this link! This article is the real gem of this thread. Even if you just skimmed the original article, go read this one. It's the meat of the matter.

My only disappointment, is that Michael Young offers no solution in this particular treatise. Did he do so elsewhere?


Good article. Michael Young is saying I think we don’t have a real meritocracy. We have a self perpetuating elite that cloaks itself with a veneer of education and eruditeness. They not only have the gold, they control the universities that supposedly guarantee fairness and supposedly judges merit without bias.

If it looks like self dealing, if it sounds like self righteousness, if it stinks like hypocrisy —- it is because it is.


This is a good argument that it isn't a monopoly.


How is the parent comment at all relevant? Also, and feel free to think this is unrelated, why are so many having such a hard time understanding the basics of anti trust?


Smart programmers can be ignorant in other areas and also jump to the comments before reading articles.


I owned 3 Xbox 360s which all failed due to cooling issues aka Red Ring of Death. More power to Sony if it results in a more reliable system.


> They look like, well every other car factory.

They're worse. Please, identify a modern car factory that builds cars in a tent.


Given how critically successful the Model 3 is, maybe more companies need to start building their cars in tents too.

(Or maybe... just maybe... the construction method of your factory walls doesn’t actually matter so much?)



Martin Tripp was a Tesla employee who was fired for whistleblowing. He saw that Tesla was taking short cuts to increase production at the expense of safety and leaked the info to the press. In retaliation, he had his phone and computer hacked. They even SWATted him and claimed he was going to shoot people at the factory despite having: 1) private investigators having him under surveillance even after office hours 2) knowing his location at all times through his hacked phone.


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