App Stores, the web, etc. How else does software as a service get sold? It’s not a new thing. Probably a lot of these things will just end up as features in existing systems.
Existing appstores like the ones on iOS and Android mostly target casual use cases, mobile devices and on-device software. Not "buy once" experiences for work via software as a service. They also do not offer a unified experience. Two "text-to-speach" apps could have completely different user interfaces.
The web does not have good discovery and reputation management and also does not provide a unified interface. That is why market places like Booking.com, Amazon, Spotify etc have become so big.
> Why not actually suggest a solution rather than just throwing your hand up at the whole thing?
A solution to which problem?
The solution to the problem of private equity running the medical system is government-run health care, like in most other nations, who spend less on health care per person than the US but whose populations are nonetheless healthier.
Or are you talking about the problem of the severe ideological divide? Or some other problem?
> The solution to the problem of private equity running the medical system is government-run health care
A super majority of the medical R&D is funded by the US system. The gov run systems pay for a minimum of it. Of the U.S. adopts a system like other gov run countries where does the medical R&D get financed?
It shows the U.S. spending 2.4x that of Europe on pharma expenditure as a % of GDP, and 3.2x that of Europe on government R&D health budgets as a % of GDP.
60 Billion a year (if I've read you charts correctly) is a drop in the bucket of US annual medical spending (4 Trillion/year.)
You could pick the next most expensive country's plan, triple US R&D expenditures, and still spend way less. The GP's point about it not being outsized is correct.
You're attempting to introduce a tangential point to cloud the issue, a typical Red Herring fallacy. Bowyakka was 100% incorrect. It is indisputable that U.S. medical R&D spending makes European spending appear insignificant.
US americans are already spending the money that funds that R&D. One possible solution that occurs to me just now (and is therefore very half baked) is that there must be a way they could continue to spend that money to fund research, while also having a functioning medical safety net
There were in past samsungs with easy replaceable batteries AND waterproof. The neat part is, with current legislation it could be done better bc it doesn't require hot swapability unlike oledr samsung models. It's not difficult, it's just not in their priorities
More materials will be used. People will change batteries that don’t need to be changed, and will buy and carry more batteries than they need. There will be a massive inventory of batteries in the supply chain, many of which will simply age out of their shelf life before ever being useful.
The chances of this being a net gain for the environment are basically zero, but the waste will make money for a bunch of people.
> The chances of this being a net gain for the environment are basically zero, but the waste will make money for a bunch of people.
You mean as opposed to now with locked down serialized batteries requiring special tools to replace? I'm sorry I just cannot understand your point at all.
As opposed to unnessary batteries unable to be reused? Or even the hardware of the devices themselves having a far higher chance of being thrown out in favor of the consumer 'just buying a new one,' as battery replacement costs get more and more prohibitively expensive.
Why exactly would people change batteries that don't need to be changed? Phones do have battery health indicators, and buying one costs money. There's no logical reason to change one, until they have degraded significantly. The only difference is that now you can change it more easily yourself, rather than having someone else do it for money, which they will happily do regardless of battery health.
When combined with requirement for longer support with updates, this change in legislation will help creating a healthy second-hand market for more devices. Cheap, non-serviceable Android phones that get updates and are used only for a year or two are the real source of waste, we need a proper second-hand marker for those similar to expensive Apple devices.
I’ve heard it argued by historians that there were likely to have been multiple prototypes of the antykythera mechanism, but each one was recycled to produce the next.
This could lend itself to the idea that one person made it, and if nothing whatsoever like it had ever come before you have to figure it took an awfully long time for one person to create something this complicated single-handedly.
Could be a number of years between iterations in a continuous improvement process that adds up to something like a life's work.
Maybe also could be passed down to a subsequent individual like a very specialized craft, and build technology across generations.
