I don't mind fulfilled by Amazon. I'm selective, but there's still value there.
If I could permanently remove everything that isn't in an Amazon warehouse from showing up in search results the platform would be way less annoying, though. De-emphasizing that nonsense is a huge value add as far as I'm concerned.
It's CBS. The NFL doesn't run the broadcast. But not Taylor Swift lol. I don't think she even did anything to draw attention to it besides existing.
I actually enjoyed seeing her in the stands, though. She was very clearly emotionally invested in the game, and I thought her reactions were genuine and added to the broadcast.
Because she's that popular.
I'm willing to bet there were a comfortable 7 figures worth of extra viewers just because she was at the game.
Eh, it is what it is. I could sideload if I really wanted to.
After more effort than it should have taken (for some reason my PIA app or Android was bouncing local connections even with the settings to allow it enabled) ebooks do work. Probably not well enough for me to actually use it, though. It only turns pages with swipes and doesn't really give any ways to do formatting. I'm surprised I've seen it suggested by people for ebooks with how limited it is. (I fully understand that it's not the priority development-wise).
But at least I finally set up docker, which I've meant to do forever.
It's a US site and a US court.
US law is the only thing relevant to the case being discussed.
I'm not crazy into stats (I don't track books when I re-read them, though goodreads supports that), but audible's "you read 30k minutes last year" was definitely kind of cool. (The fact that it took me a full 30 minutes to add the new books I've read across 5 apps since last time I bothered putting stuff on goodreads? Not so much.)
My problem is I have a whole stack of different apps to fill out my listening, so Audible's numbers are 90% the 1 author I actually bought from them outright, then there's two different library apps, and a subscription to ~~Scribd~~ Everand for a bunch of my reading, plus actual files in a different app, so none of it really means anything, and not everyone provides it so I can't even compare.
It's too bad the iOS app is stuck behind test flight, but it looks like it supports ebooks, too, so I think I might try it on my Android readers and see how it manages for those. I desperately need a better system for those than "just go find the file and use boox drop when I feel like it".
This is a lot of words to say nothing.
When that lifespan is at the cost of meaningful extra bulk you have to carry around, there are plenty.
It's not saving them money. It's because being required to carry a giant battery no matter what you want to do is a significantly worse product.
Don't buy it if you don't want AR.
But it's beyond idiotic to trash the first device on the market actually capable of functional AR because you personally don't care about the tech people have been waiting decades for.
Nintendo's drives are tiny, capacity wise. And expensive enough that publishers won't pay for the "high capacity" (that's still not big enough for games anywhere except the switch, due to how low res assets are) ones.
You can have different libraries and only share some of them with others.
I don't understand ever under any circumstances having your phone on anything but vibrate.