That’s a solved problem, though? Just adjust the fine based on the company’s revenue

It's only "solved" if the solution is actually happening.

I think there is almost zero overlap between the premium laptop market (Surface laptop) and Chromebooks.

They did that. But when the AI craze hit turned that all the 8GB base model Macs didn’t have enough space for even basic models (in addition to the 1-2 electron apps you can run simultaneously).

Of course seems like local AI is more or less a flop in the consumer market at least?

But still IMHO even for general use macos with 8GB is almost unusable unless you use it like an Ipad.

8GB is unusable, but is MacOS and Safari optimizabe? The point is they control the stack so they could reduce memory usage. It would be a big selling point, it could make a Mac "experience for experience" price competitive with PCs.

My Macbook Pro 13" Early 2015 w/ 8 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD is still very usable for what most people commonly use a laptop for - browsing the web, e-mail and streaming.

I would hope so!

All countries in Europe are certainly capitalist, though (by any definition that define US as capitalist).

And situation in countries in France where the average retiree now somehow has higher disposable income than those still working is far from ideal.

Okay, sure, whatever.

The original commenter was saying something more like "we will work until we die, but that's okay, because capitalism is great! And it's not like you would get to retire under any other system anyway"

> Other systems

Such as?

The conditions for retirees relative to those still working in the USSR were fairly decent (by the end). But its not exactly fair since the demographic situation there was much better than it is now in most developed countries.

And then all capitalist countries in Europe these days (which coincidentally are all capitalist) generally have similar retirement systems to the US.

I can’t was Netflix on Amazon’s streaming app or the other way around? So yeah, its the same

Anthropic isn’t handing out free PCs or forcing people to use them.

So if Claude code didn’t communicate with Anthropic’s server using a well defined public api but some obscure undocumented binary format it would be fine?

Or should every app/service be required to expose documented APIs?

This is not a technical question.

The immediate pro-market position is that if third-party clients are allowed / possible, Anthropic should be allowed to favor its own clients with lower prices.

But the position can go further if the service in question can be considered infrastructure. For example, a company that owns a mobile network may be required to let virtual operators use their infrastructure for a reasonable price. And a company owning a power grid may be required to become a neutral infrastructure provider that is not allowed to generate/sell power.

Anthropic is neither a monopoly nor has a dominant market position. Generally standards applied to companies like that are very different due to good reason.

EDIT: Anthropic should not be allowed to favor its own clients with lower prices.

That really seems not like the target market for a product like this, though.

So its unlikely a launch like this could be successful and would just result in the new Steam pc/console being dead on arrival..

Hard disagree. The Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck are both loved for their expandable storage, the "target market" just wants to play games and doesn't protest when they get extra features they won't use.

Maybe there is. But isn’t Tesla way, way behind Hyundai at this? It’s not even close? Yet Hyundai’s stock is still very cheap..

It can happen. Its unlikely Tesla will catch up to Waymo any time soon though. Yet valuation for Tesla (relative to how much money they are making) is massively higher than Google’s. Which would make very little sense following this logic?