I don’t know I think Apple should be able to keep COW filesystems for every user to apply atop a read only file system. Unique apps, unique settings (maybe unify tv settings into admin panel) and no cross-contamination or need for app owners to switch profiles. macOS software doesn’t need explicit understanding of profile switching, neither should iPadOS software.
Maybe this is just my consumer perspective but I feel like TomTom really missed on a pivot to other GPS-related products that Garmin has successfully nailed. 10-15 years ago both companies were known mainly for car sat-nav systems but Garmin now has an incredibly diverse product line with well-liked fitness watches, bike computers, exploring/off-grid satellite communicators, marine charts, aviation, etc. Whereas TomTom seems stuck still selling the same handful of automobile satnav products which are surely squeezed to a tiny consume base between smartphone apps and feature-rich car screens.
I know there is map IP as well and maybe that's their only real business opportunity going forward.
I'm surprised that you can make more money from bike accessories than from aircraft avionics, but I guess everyone needs a bike accessory and nobody really NEEDS a G1000. Plus, no FAA to send paperwork to when you want to make a new bike pedal.
>I'm surprised that you can make more money from bike accessories than from aircraft avionics
Maybe if you're Garmin, and make very little aircraft avionics. They've never made much on it, since they only make a tiny piece of what aircraft use.
Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, GE (still in the game?) make enough on aircraft avionics to buy Garmin many times over. Garmin never made it into the space of high end aircraft positioning systems.
Flew yesterday in a Cessna 172 with G1000 glass cockpit for the first time. It's a pretty sweet product so hopefully they find more success in avionics.
I bought my first Garmin device more than 20 years ago and already back then they were the go-to source for consumer handheld GPS location/mapping devices.
Tomtom did try to enter this market with a series of GPS watches [0] some years back but the garmin watches were better in nearly every way and dominated the market quite quickly.
Garmin seems to be nailing it. I've recently got more into golf & snorkeling and Garmin have attractive devices for both those random activities that I could definitely see buying at some stage.
The (now discontinued) iMac Pro officially supports 256 GB of RAM. 3rd party RAM resellers claim it will work with 512 GB. I assume any M1 or M2 replacement would support at least the same amount.
If you're a 50 year old, 5' tall, 100 lbs lady, then sure.
The basal metabolic rate for a 30 year old male who is 5'10" and 160lbs is 1700 calories. So that's how many calories they burn by merely existing and breathing and being warmblooded. Your argument is that someone working from home only uses a max of an extra 100 calories a day over BMR? Doubtful.
How does one's office environment relate to how many calories they consume?
If you lift weights or do other strenuous exercise 3-4k calories a day is needed. The trick with calories is just to not consume more than you are using if you don't want to gain weight.
I'm not sure the "gas station on every corner" model is going to transition to the EV world. First of all many people will do the bulk of their charging at home, so paying for a charge will be mostly limited to long distance road trips, etc. It's not something you necessarily need to do at all during your regular commute or running errands around town.
Second, even with a fast DC charger it still takes 20-60 minutes to get a useful amount of charge. That's a lot longer than you need to run into a convenient store to buy a coffee or whatever. It makes more sense to put these chargers where people will naturally be parked longer: office buildings, restaurants, highway service plazas, etc.
Unlike with ICE cars, it's trivial to turn any parking spot into a charging station for an EV. The model changes from "expensive building with attendants on every corner" to "a (120v/slow charging) plug at most parking spots". This is already the norm in northern communities where you need to plug in ICE cars if you want them to start in the morning.
In apartments/flats you are usually parking in a dedicated parking lot, that can be easily renovated to have spots with a plug. Street parking in front of small houses will likely gain parking meter like devices with extension cords.
Downtown flats and apartments around here generally don't have any streets that allow overnight parking, and do generally have their own dedicated parking, but that probably varies with location.
Once people started building with cars in mind here, they were building single family detached houses. Most apartments, duplexes, 4-plexes, etc. were built in the era of streetcars.
We do have some multifamily from the postwar era, but it tends to be either very luxe (contemporary gentrification) or very crappy (from when cities were for poor people). The stately, comfortable, once-grand-but-now-middle-class stock is all pre-automobile.
Honestly, as someone who has owned and driven an EV for the better part of a decade, L1 home charging has been sufficient most of the time. That uses the same type of 120V plug that you'd use for a coffee maker, and it's enough for about 40 miles of range while you sleep.
With a modern long-range EV, nightly L1 charging plus occasional DCFC or L2 charging would meet the driving needs of almost everyone.
So the solution is very simple: Just install L1 EVSEs everwhere. Streetlights have extra capacity now that LED bulbs are in vogue, so putting L1 charging next to every on-street parking space isn't even a technical challenge.
This could actually work pretty well. It would add more complexity to building parking lots, and possibly retrofits, but running junction boxes out to every parking space should be possible.
It can start small as well, maybe converting 10% of spaces and then expanding as adoption ramps up. You run into the grocery store for an hour, and you get a couple of miles. Park at work and get some more, then plug it in when you get home. I'm envisioning something like a retractable cable that you can pull out to your car, but maybe I'm overthinking the desire for theft of these cables.
1. Most gas stations break even on the gas an make money on the attached convenience store. That's a different business model than "charge at home" or "charge at streetlight" while you're sleeping.
2. A gas station is a place you "go" to. You're normally taking a detour or at least making an extra stop. Most day-to-day EV charging is done at your normal destination while you're doing things you'd otherwise be doing.
Those are fairly fundamental differences to the gas station model, as far as I'm concerned.
In the U.S., the majority of people drive to work, so even if you don't have a place to charge at home, you can still fully charge every weekday if your employer has chargers.
I'm not sure how feasible it is for an employer to have charging stations for 80% of their workforce. It would be a nice benefit though.
One nice thing about charging at your workplace though is typical 9-5 jobs are quire compatible with solar charging. So you put up an array of solar with electrical outlets in the lot. Excess power feeds back into the business.
As soon as there are enough electric vehicle ownership among employees, they can't reliably charge at work. I already can't, the chargers are always taken.
If all the chargers are regularly full, presumably they will build more chargers.
In the long run, having a higher percentage of EV owners should increase ability to reliably find a charger because there will be less variability in demand.
Fair enough, I used "home" but it could just as easily be anywhere else the car is stored: garage, office building, even public streets maybe. Going to a filling station is just too slow to be the main way to charge. No EV owner wants to dedicate 30 minutes a week twiddling their thumbs while the car charges. I just can't see a dedicated filling station will be part of the regular routine for most EV owners the way it necessarily is for gas cars.
Presumably you have "some place" where you store your car when you're not using it. It makes sense to put a charger there, as opposed to on the block corner.
I agree, the USB-A form factor is by far the most widely used peripheral connector in the history of computers. The shift from USB-A to USB-C is without precedent.
Practically every mouse, keyboard, printer, camera, charger, and external drive made in the last 20 years has used USB-A. Practically every car in the last 10 years has USB-A. Every hotel room, every airplane, every DC power converter. There are still millions (billions?) of devices shipped every year with USB-A.
Luckily space exists for devices using USB-A and devices using USB-C, and making cables with A at one end and C at the other is trivial enough that many cables exist like this.
Two compatible cable standard is easy to handle. The hard part comes when you have USB-A, USB-C, Lightning, Micro-USB, and Mini-USB all competing. Trying to keep enough of each type of cable on hand gets to be pricy.
Mini-USB is dead, and micro-USB/USB-A are opposite ends of the cable - they don't get used for the same thing. I'm guessing Lightning must be some weird one-manufacturer proprietary thing, in which case they deserve to be punished for their antisocialness.
So you really don't need that many cables. C-to-C, C-to-mini, and A-to-C will do you.
The purpose is to put more of the daylight hours in the evening when people are able to enjoy it. And/or when it may reduce the use of electricity (though studies show it probably doesn't have much or any effect).
If the sun rises at 5am, few people will be awake to take advantage of that light, so shifting it to 6am has not much effect. But shifting sunset from 7PM to 8PM gives people an extra hour of daylight in the evening.
I actually think the range is one of the least impressive things about the Tesla. They just spent a lot of money and put a really big battery in there. Yes the range makes it very practical but it's not particularly difficult.
Many luxury car shoppers are not that concerned with reliability since they plan on only owning the car for a few years. 3 year leases are common and even those who buy a vehicle outright may trade in long before reliability becomes a real concern.
