Depends on your use case

If running models then Apple is fine, if training or tuning or large number of users then Nvidia is king

Speaking of AMD CPU’s, how is Strix Halo coming along?

As that’s unified memory à la Apple and I think up to 128gb

Kinda ironic that Planetscale built their company on open source Vitess that google built

And now planetscale have made a Vitess like equivalent for Postgres which they have made proprietary

They have made it proprietary so that providers like AWS can't build their own service with it, thus eating into PS's income.

Google is big enough to survive open-sourcing Vitess, k8s, angular, etc. Planetscale isn't.

correct. AWS do anti-competitive stuff to us all the time we can't make it any easier for them.

Uk law gives significantly more protection on credit card purchases than debit card. As it’s treated as a finance product so the lender is has responsibilities.

USA is currently trying to bully Brazil who introduced their own PIX system.

I think USA has been behind the visa and Mastercard dominance as it gives them nearly every financial transaction globally and their intelligence has that data in realtime.

Not to mention the tax take and ensuring max use of US dollar as reserve currency

Yes longer battery life if the main benefit nearly every user experiences and appreciates

But why?

What’s the commercial argument for shopify buying a css library. What’s the synergy and business benefits.

Is it just the hire of the tailwind devs with some fanfare?

It’s a status symbol

Think how much some people spend for the watch on their wrist or on jewellery.

It’s not their first attempt though? It’s their first public release.

Imagine they have 100 previous versions as it’s been mooted to have been in development for years