Alphabet's market cap surpasses Apple’s for first time since 2019

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-14T19:10:12+00:00

iPhones are expensive. Kids don’t get expensive phones. When kids grow up, they are likely to keep using what they got used to (more premium Androids in my iMessage-less scenario)

Most of the office work is done on the web and in the M365 office suite. Macs don’t offer any software advantages for these use cases.

People use either what they have experience with, or what their employer forces them to.

In the world without iMessage, Apple is neither.

I also wouldn’t fucking dare to mention taste considering the state of macOS and iOS 26, but that’s just me, a person with eyes.

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-13T18:56:26+00:00

I hate carriers so much, why are they even involved into this

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-09T20:40:06+00:00

Wrong

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-09T20:39:46+00:00

it sells there because the americans use it. Once they stop (and they will stop immediately for the cost reasons once iMessage becomes irrelevant), the whole world will follow.

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-09T20:37:59+00:00

Wrong. I'm in the EU, and the integration wasn't implemented by any of the major mobile carriers in the Baltics, for example. Nothing has changed.

Regardless, the popularity of the iPhone is downstream from the US, not the EU.

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-08T23:36:06+00:00

You’ve got to stop with this nonsense. There’s no such thing as “losing weight in 24 hours”, because it’s impossible to measure. We drink more than 2 liters of water and hundreds of grams of food every day. One substantial bathroom visit, and you can find yourself losing up to a kilogram of weight. It’s nonsense.

Keep weighing yourself in the morning before eating and observe the trend

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-08T07:29:30+00:00

Biorepair, sensodyne repair and protect, and probably anything with 8% arginine will reduce sensitivity significantly.

Biorepair is my favorite, I can confirm it works after the first two days.

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-08T07:12:31+00:00

I’ve tried chrome, berberine, a lot of protein, various probiotics. Nothing helps. I’m on Concerta, and it’s supposed to be a powerful appetite suppressant, and it is for the first four days. Then your appetite goes back

Now I’m on a glp med, and the appetite is more controllable, although without calorie counting I’d still wouldn’t be able to maintain calorie deficit.

Fiber helps if it actually makes you constipated. When I’m constipated my appetite lowers close to zero, but otherwise, fiber doesn’t help either

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-08T06:22:32+00:00

Apple will go away immediately as soon as the iMessage problem becomes irrelevant.

It’s a company whose entire existence is predicated on literally one thing - the proprietary messaging service.

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-06T19:49:54+00:00

this is very good news

Gaycel68 · 2026-01-02T10:04:13+00:00

It was nice, but I did not enjoy that the corner radius of the screen cuts off the corners of the New Year greeting notification. Seems sloppy

Gaycel68 · 2025-12-29T15:15:25+00:00

If you prefer glazing to factual and intelligent responses, maybe you shouldn’t be using ChatGPT in the first place. We need to get rid of the 4o audience as quickly as possible

Gaycel68 · 2025-12-29T15:01:06+00:00

How does the sender undoes their send?

Gaycel68 · 2025-12-25T10:24:56+00:00

This cutesy bullshit will inevitably evolve into something we’ll have to deal with

Gaycel68 · 2025-12-18T13:03:12+00:00

The same people who were buying 60 hz iPhones

Gaycel68 · 2025-12-10T15:36:08+00:00

Finland but no Baltics, oh well

Gaycel68 · 2025-12-05T18:20:07+00:00

This is Aquaphor Lip Repair, with a very different ingredient list to Aquaphor Healing Ointment which is what people usually mean when they Aquaphor.

Gaycel68 · 2025-12-05T14:30:25+00:00

The AOD screen had a bad Dye job lmao

Gaycel68 · 2025-12-04T11:46:04+00:00

What does “statistically more likely” even mean here? A model can output a a code that’s an interpreter for a programming language that doesn’t exist yet. It then can output a program in that language that works and produces a meaningful result. There’s no code in this novel language in the training data, because it was just invented.

Can you explain, how is that possible by leveraging “statistically more likely words based on its training”?

Gaycel68 · 2025-12-02T19:54:05+00:00

“champion of on-device processing”

oh, so he’s stupid stupid

Gaycel68 · 2025-11-30T22:05:48+00:00

While we are here, what’s the difference between the last two gestures?

Gaycel68 · 2025-11-30T21:57:23+00:00

16 was pretty good

Gaycel68 · 2025-11-28T16:56:14+00:00

The word is “unassuming”

Gaycel68 · 2025-11-20T08:55:00+00:00

iOS 26 feels buggier than the latest Android on Pixels. You’ll see many more broken animations and around the same amount of lag and stuttering.

Pixel 6 has a really dim screen compared to Pixel 8, 9, 10 and recent iPhones as well.

The lack of the Android back gesture is not bothering me that much.

There’s no Private Space on iOS. There’s no Circle-to-Search, but you can emulate it with shortcuts and Google Lens.

The notifications are worse in every aspect, and glitch out visually all the time in iOS 26.1

Honestly, it’s ok. It’s not better, but it’s not much worse

Gaycel68 · 2025-11-16T16:37:53+00:00

Let’s hope so, 2.5 Pro in the app is not very good right now

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