> Are local models anywhere close to gaining enough capability and traction to do it in-house?

Cloud providers will always be able to offer more performance and more powerful options.

I don't know, I could envision a situation where investing enough capital in hardware to be able to generate "infinite" tokens for free (or close to that) might open up possibilities not economically practical otherwise. Especially once the incumbents run out of hype / investor money to burn and start raising their prices to push revenue in line with their enormous expenditures.

Also, presumably at some point far in the future we'll reach a technological asymptote and factors like latency may start to play a bigger role, at least for some applications.

I grant that training data is crucial distinguishing factor that may never become competitive in-house.

> The side loading stuff I can understand to restrict to the EU

Just curious: why do you understand they restrict it to EU?

It's pretty clear isn't it?

They do so with third-party app stores.

And if they wanted to have airpods-like pairing to third-parties in US, they would already have.

The only reason they might bring this to US is customers will be royally pissed.

> It's pretty clear isn't it?

If it were, they wouldn’t be asking. And you haven’t answered it either. Your parent comment is asking why the grandparent commenter thinks it makes sense to restrict third-party stores to the EU instead of having them everywhere.

I 100% agree with you but also sad fact is that it’s easy to understand why people don’t want to take this role. You can make enemies easily, you need to deliver “bad news” and convince people to put more effort or prove that effort they did was not enough. Why bother when you probably won’t be the one that have to clean it up

    > You can make enemies easily...

Short term, definitely. In the long tail? If you are right more than you are wrong, then that manifests as respect.

Ha! I wish I worked at the places you have worked!

99% marketing 1% product Sorry…

I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to say with this. That we need marketing to succeed? Or that the product has too much marketing (where?) and low quality?

Name one "writing app" that doesn't apply to? Still feel like you're being needlessly harsh, don't you remember writing your first text editor too? Most of us do it at one point or another.

I don't think the OP was trying to write "My First Text Editor". This is a product we're meant to consume and should be critiqued as such.

> And these decisions have changed over time for the wrong reasons.

Have you ever considered that you don’t understand why those decisions were made and that’s why you think they were made for the wrong reasons?

I simply don't agree with the reasons, while you seem to imply that all decisions made, are good.

The reasons are always the same. 20% because some changes are actually improvements, and 80% cargo cultism where if you just build the right containers and chant the correct YAML incantations, you too will become a Google… followed by the phase where everybody just keeps doing these things because they organizationally don’t know any other way anymore, until the next big trendy thing, which does revert some of the issues of the previous trendy thing, but introduced a new set of already solved problems because this profession is incredibly myopic when it comes to history.

If Google does it, maybe it'll work out for my small business, right...?

FYI you can add a matte layer yourself on any screen

Yes, you can even add a privacy protection layer that blocks viewing from larger angles.

I love those paragraph so much. Thank you.

“In this article, I’m going to be making an argument for gatekeeping. Not people, but culture, which is always worth defending. I’m not advocating for elitism, credentialism, or hostility towards beginners.

Instead, I say we should band together and defend the norms, values, quality standards, and our shared understanding of what open–source is for.”

I think this is very important distinction that should be understood broader.

This is true also for steam deck but it’s a success anyway. COD, Fortnite, LoL players can stay on windows. I’m happy to play newest indie game on my Linux machine

Worth considering that Nintendo has a massive library of proprietary games they themselves produce (Mario, Pokemon, etc) that Steam does not have.

People buy Nintendo products to play Nintendo games.

Success is relative. The Steam Deck is only unsuccessful if you consider the goal of the device to be "outsell Nintendo". I would argue 4 million units is not merely a success, but a massive success.

For an interesting comparison, the PS Vita did about 4 million in the first year.

The Steam Deck also had no marketing and is not sold in retail stores. It's also been a success in kicking off a whole product category of handheld PCs, of which most games will be bought on Steam.

Good thing Valve is not a publicly traded company unlike Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.

> This is the mindset that makes the Steam Machine DOA if not priced correctly. No one will pay $800 just to play Hollow Knight in 4k

I will pay that money to finish up my backlog of games on Steam. I already pay that much for Steam Deck anyway.

Weird. Things3 seems to be doing great without it

The exceptions that prove the rule.

But then you have to maintain it yourself, which overall usually wilk be more work than just migrating from time to time