Anand was involved in a scandal recently there [0]. Is he still in that job?
The driving force behind the reviews for mobiles and related topics at AT was Andrei Frumusanu. His reviews had a level of depth very few even on AT could touch. But he left to work for Qualcomm so that ended his reviewer stint.
The “scandal” was unsubstantiated assertions in a Nuvia legal filing. Basically Apple accused Nuvia of poaching employees. In responding trying to show they were good guys, Nuvia said Anand sent them powerpoint slides marked confidential, but they responded that the communication was inappropriate. The case ultimately went to nowhere: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/01/apple_nuvia_lawsuit/.
This doesn’t mean anything other than some lawyer thought it would be a good optics. I bet Apple’s default powerpoint slide template has confidential headers. And Nuvia would be right to cover its ass by responding the way it did—they don’t want anything marked Apple confidential in their possession even if the actual content of the slide is public information. Inclusion of the correspondence in the Nuvia legal filing could even have been a prophylactic measure, intended to get out in front of the evidence before Apple seized on it to show Nuvia did anything wrong.
Just don’t believe stuff in legal filings. It’s not that they’re untrue, it’s that they’re definitionally self-serving and selected to paint the other side in the worst light possible. That’s a byproduct of our adversarial system.
In my environment, it's not the insane WiFi speeds that have been impactful, it's managing density more easily. MU-MIMO and OFDMA have been game changers in that respect.
"Today the average price of an original (but modernized) E. P. Janes home is around $1 million, even with only one bathroom due to the small footprint."
$1M 1-bathroom home? Just another day that ends in Y in CA.
Multiple bathrooms in houses is a relatively modern thing. And it's the sort of thing that's often hard to retrofit. So houses that are otherwise desirable may otherwise be short of bathrooms by modern standards.
At the peak of construction, Levitt was building one house every 16 minutes. Each house cost around $8,000, a price that was reduced to about $400 with GI bill benefits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown
Soldiers coming back after WW2 could get a house for 400$. And it had 2 bathrooms
African American GIs, who served with honor in World War II, could work on Levittown construction crews but could not join the hordes of people pressing into Levittown rental and sales offices.
This was very much the root of one of the great economic divisons in modern US times .. the post WWII boom and generational multiplying effects were segregated.
My grandfather was a WWII, Korea, and Vietnam vet with the GI Bill. In 1968, there was no housing discount, only low interest loans. Their house cost $10k then and sold for $2.1m in 2018. I have the original copies of the deeds and of their loan.
Speaking of status pages, are there any that exist that can aggregate the status pages of various SaaS apps?
Meaning - Let's say I'm a company that subscribes to many SaaS apps (ie: Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, etc.), but want to create an internal dashboard to monitor those SaaS apps and alert my internal users. What options are available?
