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It's mentioned in the MrMobile video, but should be noted this company is also run by the co-founders of F(x)tec. Glad to see they're still investing in keeb phones, even if it's just for iPhone for now. The F(x)tec Pro1 was a cool phone, but a hard sell considering how Android updates work. Still holding out for someone to make a new keyboard phone/accessory for Android.


i remember reading about how IBM was consistently granted the most patents by the USPTO for over 25 years; this thread made me take a look and turns out Samsung bested them last year. and, of course, IBM spun it as a shift to "focusing" and that they did it "on purpose". feels like a sign of the times


They also stopped paying bonuses for patent work. Not surprising it dropped off thereafter.


I don't buy this theory — Elon holds the X branding dearly to an absurd degree and wouldn't burn it as an exit plan — but the question that I have is: how is Elon going to transfer x.com to X Corp? He reportedly owns it personally after buying it back from PayPal, so is he going to donate the domain to the newly-formed company or is he going to sell it to X Corp for a fee?


Right on. He wants to make it more than just a tweet message platform. He wants to make it his own personal portal. That will do X.

The price he paid is for the human traffic. Redirected to his world of interests


So, his pitch is: It is like X for X? For some reason, I like that.


Probably, but if you think about the final 20% of the workload in optimizing, I think it's safe to say one will be immensely more grueling than the other just by the nature of it.

Not to say that your original comment didn't have merit; the beauty of hobby projects is that you can completely skip the last 20%.


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