This is my approach.

I have hubris. But also some self-awareness.

20-50% into broad market indexes. 50-70% into messing around and generic picks.

Of my own picks, only a few have outperformed the s&p50p. Some are… not good. If I happen to find another nvidia I’ll be very happy. If I don’t, I’ll be able to retire at a not unreasonable age.

Feel like? Maybe not. Accepted? Maybe.

More often than not now, I find myself having to be the adult in the room. My father recently died, and while my parents both have wills sorted, they didn’t have other things like power of attorney sorted, or a real discussion of what his funeral arrangements he would like. It was not a sudden death. That was a turning point for me.

I guess that’s where I’m at, I’ve accepted I’m an adult. I’m losing backstops, but also becoming other people’s backstop.

Give it another 10 or so years and we’ll be going even deeper

It’s also because the blocks form “Loss.” The infamous Ctrl Alt Del comic.

Honestly, I doubted this, and looked it up.

Why do you think in only a few years AirTags have become so ubiquitous, while tile has had nearly a decade on them, and are so barely known?

Really? Because the only ones I’ve seen have been based on the “Tile” system.

At last check: Requires everyone to have the system on the phone and turned on (Opt in vs opt out), and don’t have user replaceable batteries (manufactured ewaste).

And your implied claim that Android is an open system and lets any developers in while Apple do not is also false, for example: https://www.momax.net/en-us/products/br5

I believe it was originally to do with focus, and applying “Shallow depth of field” effects, aka blurry backgrounds.

But now you can get cool features like, being able to scan things with your phone (for say 3d printing), but it’s far more accurate than anything else on the market.

You should rethink how the “hostile” thing works, because that’s not how interpersonal relations work.

I’d think of defending its accessories as things like; lightning/USB-C to 3.5mm jacks… which android phones also have.

At this point, airtags are all but a product unto themselves, except that you need an iphone to use them. But they are an incredibly cool product, which I can’t use because I am not in the apple ecosystem (and haven’t been since shortly after Steve Jobs kicked the can).

I could also point out that including LIDAR in their phones is cool, and has opened up new features and functions within various apps. You could also say that Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via satellite are “Killer Features” too.

But with all that said, attacking people over their opinions is very much a fanboy thing to do.

Iphone does have some cool, closed garden things, eg, airtags.

Yes. Android has alternatives, none of which are nearly as good as airtags.

Being able to use your phone with multiple screen sizes and formats depending on what you’re doing.

Also: being able to put the phone at 90degs and use it as either a camera or flash light stand.

New Zealand: https://comcom.govt.nz/consumers/dealing-with-typical-situations/anti-competitive-behaviour-by-businesses