> No one using Linux uses .NET

Perhaps once generally true, not as true since .NET Core.

> Apple Watch requires an iPhone.

I’m no Apple salesperson, but, no.

Once you set the watch up, you can throw the phone in a lake, and retain most if not all major features.

Especially the cellular models.

"once you set the watch up"

This does require an iPhone though, right?

Access to someone’s, once.

An achievable bar for people buying Dick Tracy computers.

if i remember right, to activate the security (touch id like) feature you need the phone to be on your account. there are more restrictions than just pure activation.

Even for cellular models?

That seems…ripe for disruption.

Why is nobody selling a cellular standalone watch?

Not enough units to make manufacturing worth it?

Is this a chicken-and-egg problem?

ACME is actually better, because you can say or read it in under 5 business days.

I've heard people say "Eczema Script" in jest.

ECMAScript is a horrible name. It's worse than Google Bard.

Still figuring out if they’re adding value to 200 customers or not.

Slow down.

Famous people get pwned.

That’s a shit heuristic.

Not the guy you're replying to, but... I think that's the joke.

I'm not using it as a heuristic.

Your first question about their credentials was “where would I know them from?”.

For Android Desktop.

Noise, credits.

Maybe if we burn through the budget, the AI mandates will back off a bit?

But it was that ten years ago, too,

to bring us back to the original conversation.

because we all continue showing back up for it, yes.