This is a good point. You lose existing users through attrition. How do you attract new subscribers to a site they cannot see?
They could leave the front top 50 posts of the day available as an attractor. With a “sign up to see more” banner at the end of the scroll. Is current leadership smart enough to do that?
I wonder how advertisers on Reddit will respond to this? It will certainly result in less ad views.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much. This product will likely flop and the ads will be off the air soon enough. There’s just too small of an audience for this kind of device.
If Oracle pops, does this affect the WBD/Paramount/Skydance deal?
Tim didn’t really resign/retire. They promoted him to Chairman.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/10/11/tim-cook-visits-china-for-the-third-time-in-2026
Robots can work well in warehouses. Amazon’s have been a success, for example. This just sounds like whomever WalMart hired to design this didn’t know what they were doing and Walmart got screwed. Maybe they tried to automate the wrong tasks, or leaned too heavily on the sales pitch of “AI magic” rather than understanding what they were buying.
The article also mentions Kroger’s failed dive into automation. From what I can find online, the automation worked, but it was a flop because it was expensive and underutilized — it wasn’t worth the money spent because it was focused on filling online orders that dried up.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-warehouse-robots-automation-942b814
https://retailboss.substack.com/p/krogers-350-million-lesson-why-big
Sounds like a class action. Some corporate buyer or school will probably sue. I predict the judgement will end up being a coupon for $100 off one of the new googlebooks.
So I looked into this and you are right and I am wrong. Deleting my previous posts since there’s more to this case than just haptics.
Rewarding a patent troll is never a good thing. It just means no one will be able to use haptic feedback without paying a toll.
One year later… “Why doesn’t anyone want to pay for our slop tv show/movie/book/song/videogame? I wonder if our company can get a bailout from the government?”
How is this good news? Haptic feedback has existed since the 1970s. This patent should be invalid.
Volvo’s is.
https://www.volvotrucks.com/en-en/trucks/electric.html
Ford and GM canceled their electric delivery vans though. Perfect timing!
https://insideevs.com/news/776511/gm-brightdrop-production-ending-2025/
https://fordauthority.com/2025/12/ford-ev-van-also-cancelled-new-gas-model-will-take-its-place/
If you’re driving 16 hours a day, then your cargo should probably be going by rail.
Yet the people who support these laws are the first to scream, “corporations are people!” when it’s convenient.
It’s still code bloat. A lot of these new “features” should have been plug-ins.
They probably saw an opportunity after data centers started buying up all their Mac mini’s and Mac Studios.
Electronics recycling really needs to be more mainstream. We’re burying way too much mineral content.
I don’t get why this is infuriating? Any job that you take is going to have you take the same training about diversity, sexual harassment, etc. I don’t see anything in the email saying that this training is going to cost you anything extra.
Are you just pissed off that there’s so many grammar and spelling mistakes in an email sent from a university? They probably used AI to write it or it was written by the outsourced vendor that provides the training materials.
And publishers pay people to buy their books so they get on the best seller list.
And publishers pay ghost writers to write many “celebrity” authored books.
Looks like it’s an option you have to turn on or can turn off.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/105071