Thank you, I scrolled all the way to the end of the comments and was worried this wouldn’t be here.

Man, that pendulum swing from “the uncarrier” to full blown horrible large corporation. That merger with Sprint sure has made things better for customers, right?

Concierge hospitals give monocles too.

Ah, I see what you’re saying, I misunderstood and thought you were taking about picking a different book. Indeed, for the worst case scenario a mediocre AI voice could be an improvement!

Really shoulda had the new guy standing to the left in the bottom frames to sell the premise.

You seem to be implying that’s ridiculous, but it is indeed exactly like that, though it’s not like I’m expecting every performance to be a masterpiece.

It’s also pretty subjective, for example folks either seem to love or hate R. C. Bray. My mother can’t stand the guy’s style, I think he’s okay.

For now at least I bet this’ll be pretty mediocre. I’m a big audiobook fan and voice actors have a massive impact on the quality of the finished product. A great voice actor can make a mediocre book fun and engaging, a bad one can make a great book unlistenable. The best do great voice differentiation. As an example I’ve really enjoyed Andrea Parsneau’s work in The Wandering Inn series.

All I can think of is this scene from the Rejected cartoon.

Here’s some AI slop to definitely explain this in a coherent way.

Store brand dire wolves, so disappointing.

“It’s all fake, and even if it’s not no sensitive information was leaked, and even if it was the operation was a resounding success.”

This is the site: https://dogeque.st/

Despite the headlines it doesn’t seem to actually have extensive data. As an example, my area has an annoyingly high tesla presence and I see exactly one tesla listed on the site. Hell, there are less than ten listed for my major metro area.

Serious answer to a facetious reply: I’d imagine there has to be some level of software involved if it’s pulsing, even if it’s rudimentary or low level. I also wonder what it does in terms of the bodies demands such as during physically intense activities. I’d guess that it doesn’t which, along with the 4 hour battery life, probably answers why it’s a stop gap and not an alternative at this point. Still awesome though.

Fascinating, and awesome for people in need, but a whole new level of battery anxiety.

Oh man, they are gonna ruin like 5 people’s day with this.

2100 - 2500 seems to be the range, and Swappa looks to be trending cheaper than eBay. For example a “mint” 512 sold on swappa for just over 2150, it’s not quite half off, but it’s not far. And for those braving Facebook marketplace I’ve heard they are selling cheaper still… but I wouldn’t go there.

Not sure if this was snarky, but you can indeed get used ones at roughly half of retail, not a great sign for apple.

If they try to stay will you wrestle your upvote back?