Perhaps I'm wrong, but definitely seems to be SOTA. Although looking at it's ARC-AGI-2 score it's reasoning isn't very good. I suspect it's got the benefits of scale but lacks that human added element, understandable considering they claim to be building it from the ground up. This should come in time if they have a good team. In real life, I'd imagine one would worry about overfitting when using it.

(I'm not using it as I'm not agreeing to their ad terms).

That's pretty disingenuous, bordering on ridiculous.

Do they have a record of lying to you? No.

Go read the system card. It's a lot more tame than you think, peoples are taking pieces out of this and hyping it. Doesn't mean it's not valid.

I at times wonder if my life would be easier if I were not so stubborn and just installed every app suggested along the way.

Here the barriers to entry are high imo but artificial, you need to complete an apprenticeship paid for through opportunity cost of lower wages and less working freedom for a few years.

Sadly I'd say it's the opposite with them winning that antitrust case, none of these big guys give a shit anymore, they're basically slowly easing into doing whatever the hell they want.

The catch would be you actually need to have zero bank cards. That is extremely unlikely hence no one has done it.

Enable unknown sources in developer options, have the user type out in order to proceed "If I am typing this and don't know what I am doing, I am likely being scammed".

I completely disagree.

Beats brand basically disappeared after that or at the least has become "uncool".

Apple had iTunes already, they very well could've acqui-hired and improved their service themselves.

Apple music slowly died and is only becoming resurgent now, many years later.

Beats (or I guess Apple under the Beats name) still make H1/2 based in-ears that are generally well received.

Yep! I own both a pair of AirPods and a pair of Beats. The Beats were designed for a lower price point, without noise cancellation, than the AirPods so I can’t offer a head-head comparison.

This is quite the opposite, better than we have.

It raises the hurdle for those looking to surveil.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

This is primarily for cloud compute I'd imagine, AI specifically. As it's generally not feasible/possible to run the state of the art models locally. Think GDPR and data sovereignty concerns, many demand privacy and can't use services without it.