conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I would think their public statements would significantly hurt the ability to do this, even if developers "agreed" to the terms without that clause.

I straight up don't think they could legally do it either way. But if they made public statements specifically addressing this particular thing, it has to significantly weaken their case.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

So I was listening to the WAN show, and Luke said that the DRM was stacked with booby traps that broke the game mechanically in a bunch of ways if the DRM was bypassed without also removing them. The crack did; their version didn't.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I think vision pro is the first viable AR at all, and I want it bad.

It will definitely be a while before you can actually do glasses, but I don't really see there being a lot in the mean time.

I wish the cameras were something that would cause cultural opposition, but I don't see it. What portion of the planet (or US/Europe, at least) already broadcasts everything they do on purpose (before the 500 extra trackers on every web site and spyware apps on their phone)? It's a lot. People should care about privacy, but the second it's inconvenient they stop caring.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

This is not correct. You only gain the roster spot.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're doing a woven material. The article I saw said the rumor was using recycled nylon and polyester in some manner, but that was a rumor and I don't know if it's confirmed. But you could absolutely make a decent, reasonably rugged phone case with something in approximately the neighborhood of canvas.

Stopping trying to be leather when it sucked was needed. If you're not doing a relatively high quality grade of leather, it can't handle the abuse, and what Apple had recently wasn't that.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's glasses. Apple's on the front line of that though. They're not in a portable form yet, but Apple's is the closest to viable AR (or "spatial computing", which is messaging I love), even if it's still too big.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

That's a lot less viable than a foldable is. It's absolutely an improvement in theory, but that doesn't mean we can do it any time soon.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They have to see if he'll do it.

I think he's done and would turn them down, but that team has a lot of talent.

They should have a line in the sand number, though. I don't know how much they can theoretically open by manipulating contract structures, but even with how much talent the defense has, if you have to lose a stud young defender in a couple years to make the math work, it might not be worth it.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope. Anything you pay (except one year veteran minimum deals that get an exception to be counted at a slightly lower number) hits the cap.

You can manipulate timing with contract structure, but there is no way to pay a player without it counting to the salary cap

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago (15 children)

They're "boring" because they're at their limit. The form factor can do what it can do.

Foldables will eventually enhance the experience, but the materials that are available don't do the job. Until then there's only iteration.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

For a premium brand selling itself on premium quality, their leather stuff sucked pretty hard.

Some sort of woven material is exactly what I suggested when the rumors were first brought up. There are absolutely things in the canvas neighborhood that have a lot of the traits decent leather does that apply to phone cases. I think it has a lot of potential.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Awesome. More competition means economies of scale and the potential to get the price down at some point.

A lot of this storage doesn't need the physical space (shown by people literally cutting down PCBs before there was real availability), so just the volume of the SKU should help a lot.

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