I've definitely had situations where I zoned out for a few seconds during a meeting or seminar, and want to see what was just spoken. That seems like a much stronger use case where you wouldn't want to interrupt the whole room to ask what was just spoken.

That doesn't seem to be a use case that I would use - now assuming someone is still speaking, you look at your watch (just bad form to me) you will very likely miss what is being talked about while reading what you previously missed. At least my one channel brain would.

This happens to me too and I enable 'Live Captions' (not meeting transcriptions) so that I always have a scroll back in case I miss something.

It's built into the meeting software I use and probably in most mainstream ones.

I tried OS transcription but those don't split out who's talking (since it's a single audio stream) so much less useful.

Anyways all that to say that at least in online meetings this problem is solved and addressing this problem in a stack that doesn't have meeting context is going to result in a worse experience.

It's gonna make a loud ass chime when you do that, so I don't think that's the use case Apple was imagining.

Life saving feature for ppl with ADHD. M

People often cite they were first to market, but isn't the bigger factor that they are backed by all the big music labels?

I use Pocket Casts all the time and have never heard an ad inserted to a podcast.

Try using it abroad in a non English speaking country. You’ll notice the ads because they won’t be in English. This happens to me on Pocket Casts every time I travel.

Actually had no idea Dr. Bronner's was this weird. The guy started it as a tax-exempt religious organization!

Surprisingly, their "Alexa for Shopping" feature has been quite good for finding products that contain a specific set of desired features.

I was looking for a device that plugs into my car's 12V cigarette lighter outlet, connects with my phone's Bluetooth, outputs the audio to 3.5mm aux (my car has aux input but no Bluetooth), has no battery, automatically turns on with my car, has next and previous track buttons, and outputs USB-C with at least 30W.

Amazon's search filters were useless for this, but their LLM was able to read through reviews and suggest products that come very close. Unfortunately, no exact product exists that fulfills all the requirements.

Their LLM tells me that it can't perform searches and can't read reviews, and then does both things anyway. It consistently takes me at least 4 interactions before it begins to produce useful results.

It may be better than the uselessness of the Amazon search box, but that's a very low bar.

I went through that same search a couple times. I felt that this was such an obvious thing that I was amazed that it didn't exist on Amazon, Aliexpress, or anything else.

Seriously, that was the only person with a level head. When has it ever been okay to discuss work details with an ex-coworker months after they left?

The odd thing is one of the guys has the first name Chang, and the other guy has the last name Chang.

Maybe someone could help me understand what this message means.

> I think I’m going to have to hit the workday button before I’m complete. I just got a weird message that is making me nervous (see below), so I am going to go hit the workday button now.

Why in the world would a high-level Apple employee not sign out of his personal iCloud on his work computer, and then also use his personal iCloud for data from his new company?

Because Apple has this unorthodox policy of using iCloud for work files, and recommends employees use their personal Apple IDs.

I'm not kidding.

> It seems to work well in America.

Does it? Who does it work out well for? Franchises continuously extort tax-payer funds for stadia,some team switches host cities every few years, and the for-profit corporations are legal cartels that decides who gets to own a team. The number of ad-breaks is horrendous to anyone who's watched sports elsewhere.

How exactly do they extort tax-payer funds?

"Use tax money to build us a new stadium, or we will relocate to Vegas. Do you want to be known by the voters as the governor who gave up our beloved sportsball team? No? Then better pay up."

Because they were designed to be decentralised federations, atop the footballing body in each country. More generally, the US is the most capitalist country, whereas the rest of the world does automatically see capitalism as justified, superior or inevitable.

Lastly, football is a grassroots participation sport that is seen by its fans as more of a religion than a conventional act of entertainment. Of course, religion in the US is also often for-profit, but hopefully you get the point.

MLB & NFL only changed to for-profit organisations somewhat recently (2007, 2015). afaict NBA has always been for-profit.

Internationally the standard is non-profits. Most sports have both their international organisations and highest standard of play organisations as non-profits - football, tennis, golf, cricket. The international components of baseball, american football, and basketball are all non-profits (though they are lower standards of play than the US internal leagues).

American sports leagues are also non-profit organizations. Profits go to the individual teams. So no, FIFA should not be run by private equity firms.

Are they? Their revenues are limited and they can’t really extend their influence outside USA. Meanwhile European games are watched globally

imo, usa has the worst sports culture of any country I've lived in (6 so far).

Oakland Raiders? not anymore! teams just leave to another city if the money is right. craziness.

the sheer number of ads and marketing.

what are you smoking?