It could just be me, but the usecases they're trying to solve for always seem... out of touch from reality.

Either they live in their own bubbles where their lives revolve around constant shopping, traveling, throwing parties, and doing creative work...

Or they're not bothering to do basic observational research around how normal people live.

You mean the average person's problems aren't solved by a custom widget to track their flight to Iceland?

The irony is that most of these things would be better solved by a bot you can text. Create a thread for a trip or whatever, have it text you when flights are delayed or cancelled, reminders, let you ask it question, etc. So just...a chatbot.

"Gemini, design a widget to tell me if I can afford to stop for coffee before work"

"Gemini, design a widget to tell me if I can afford to eat this week"

The music video is great too... the slow build up of the song towards the 3:10 minute mark, with him running towards you. Love it. So thankful I was old enough to be around to watch it on MTV.

Sometimes I sing under lights that are purple. Sometimes I'm shirtless and I tilt my head.

love that distinction.

current 3/4 series had near perfect interior until 2023 interior update.

Which is the one in the M8, except the temperature aren't dials but up/down buttons.

It has $40B in liabilities.

[PDF] https://www.airfranceklm.com/sites/default/files/2026-02/202...

Airlines are down there amongst cinema chains and video game retail stores in terms of being terrible businesses

Want to know the easiest way to become a millionaire?

First, become a billionaire. Then, start an airline.

"$30B in sales and $1B in profit."

This margin seems terrible.

4% seems reasonable, it's pretty much standard across the board in Europe (median sits around 6% if I recall correctly), not many companies can pull 10% profit. For example in Spain, major conglomerates like INDITEX have a 11%, Iberdrola has a 10%. We also don't use the same metrics and parameters as the US for profit, so the values are skewed.

That said, certain sectors like software (as in custom enterprise grade software dev) pull revenues that are much much higher sitting around 35%, but it's not that common.

yeah the more people who use it means less competitive edge you have. Benefits get devalued. And you're back to square one.

100% agree. As someone who used both Mac and PC for 30+ years, and still use both, Mac OS (and iOS) aren't very intuitive. Lots of hidden functions. The way they organize settings is tough to find. It's always a struggle.

they're competing against themselves to essentially not screw up.

And “one” like most Fortune 500 companies.

The first one I remember is RealPlayer. I think the official story was that they were having more and more trouble convincing people to install upgrades (at a time when 56k and slower modems were still common, dowloading an app could take minutes, ugrade nags seemed to be ever present), so they decide to name the new major version RealOne Player "because it's the One, the only One you need, the One that does everything for you".

Of course, this meant that the next time they tried to get anybody to install a patch, some of us felt annoyed because. RealOne Player wasn't "the One" after all. Why should we get back on the treadmill of waiting for downloads that rarely seem necessary?

Ahem. I think this event sensitised me against all attempts at using "one" like that. I mentally flip a table every time.

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Dieter Rams. Still alive and well. God bless him.

He has a number of opinions: https://youtu.be/ypyAg3Zbs_8 .