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Showdown: Apple Silicone Challenges Nvidia's Dominance & Monopoly
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Can the Apple chips actually deliver AI on device and thus potentially compete in the space efficiently, and perhaps even eventually lead it should demand for Nvidia chips drops, which is a possibility given the circular economics we have witnessed recently between major tech firms.
The growing rivalry between NVIDIA’s CUDA platform and Apple’s Metal framework within the artificial intelligence landscape. While NVIDIA currently dominates large-scale data centers and model training, Apple is positioning itself as a leader in on-device AI through its inte...
The AI Efficiency Paradox: Why Your and Everyone's Workloads Are Increasing
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Recent data reveals that artificial intelligence is increasing workloads rather than providing the professional relief many expected. Instead of freeing up time for creative pursuits, AI tools have intensified the pace of work by doubling time spent on communication and administrative software. While these technologies generate efficiency, the resulting capacity is immediately consumed by additional tasks and expanded project scopes, leading to a phenomenon known as "work creep." Experts warn that this shift toward higher work density and reduced focused time creates a risk of...
Is Apple Back Like 1998?
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How Apple is using 'institutional memory' to market this $599 device through nostalgic 'candy colors' like Citrus and Indigo. Focus on the technical disruption of using iPhone A-series chips to outperform desktop CPUs, and delve into the strategic significance of the Apple-Google Gemini partnership. The tone should be analytical yet exciting, specifically debating whether this is a simple nostalgia play or a calculated move to capture the 'next billion users' in emerging global markets.
Showdown: When Lack of Preparation Meet Opportunity: Samsung Trifold Lack of SPen vs Samsung's Obsession with Thinness
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It is said that luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Did Samsung realize they were impulsive by releasing the TriFold without having sorted out the SPen? For a phone to cosplay as a tablet, without having stylus input is effectively laughable, a major miscalculation that perhaps reveals the extent to which Samsung starts to feel the heat from Apple's own upcoming foldable device, which should it have Apple Pencil support could effectively deliver a knockout blow to Samsung. Samsung is probably realizing that it must make the SPen work on the Z Fold 8 to...
The Weathervane Company: How OpenAI Went from Setting the Wind to Chasing It
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OpenAI has an approach that resembles a rooster weathervane that changes direction endlessly based on the direction of the wind. One moment it is video generation, then changing a much beloved model in favor of a more impersonal one, then a change of focus based on a competitor's decision or product releases, such as with the famous code red following innovation by Google, or jumping on a government contract once Anthropic had exited. All these point to a former clear market leader setting the tone, to now a company that is increasingly in reactive...
Apple at $599: The Velvet Glove Over the Iron Fist
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How Apple is looking to continue to remain a key player even in the low-end of the market pricing tier, as demonstrated by its release of the iPhone SE at $599 USD and the MacBook Neo laptop at $599. These entries can show that Apple is conscious of consumers being hit by inflation and an increasingly changing job market and tech landscape as well as a means to get customers with less resources hooked on the Apple ecosystem sooner rather than later. I venture that the latter is probably most likely. It is also a...
Showdown: Claude Cowork vs All Other Bots: Achieving Massive Productivity
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Concrete and powerful examples of how Claude Cowork can significantly improve productivity for professionals from a wide range of industries and roles at various levels from individual contributors to managers to executives as well for entrepreneurs, coders, creatives and others.
how to use Claude Co-work, a desktop-based AI feature that acts as a hands-on assistant for executing tasks directly on a computer. Unlike standard chatbots, this tool can autonomously manage files, organize cluttered folders, and generate spreadsheets based on local data. Users must install the Claude...
AI Surveillance Pricing Exploits Your Dying Battery, owning an expensive phone, increased Uber pricing - How AI Individualizes the Cost of Living
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Modern corporations are increasingly using artificial intelligence to implement surveillance pricing, a strategy that sets individual costs based on a consumer's unique data profile. While dynamic pricing originated in the 1970s airline industry to manage supply and demand, current technology allows for price personalization based on factors like zip codes, browsing history, and even phone battery levels. Retailers and service providers, including Amazon, Uber, and major grocery chains, utilize these complex algorithms to maximize revenue by estimating exactly how much a specific user...
The Inevitable End of Cheap AI: Why Your AI subscriptions will Skyrocket
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The current era of affordable, ubiquitous artificial intelligence is a temporary marketing illusion soon to be shattered by physical and economic realities. While users are currently hypnotized by the "virtual" nature of software, the industry is hitting a massive infrastructure wall characterized by skyrocketing demands for electricity, specialized hardware, and high-voltage power grids. Tech giants are pivoting from software development to industrial-scale energy acquisition, investing hundreds of billions in nuclear power and data centers to secure a finite supply of computing power. This shift suggests a transition...
SHOWDOWN AI ROI vs Harsh Reality: The AI ROI Correction: From Hype to Hard Numbers
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The business world is currently undergoing a significant correction as the initial hype surrounding artificial intelligence transitions into a demand for measurable financial returns. Many organizations are moving away from broad "AI-first" mandates toward a pragmatic strategy that only utilizes the technology when it solves specific operational bottlenecks. Research indicates a high failure rate for experimental pilots, leading executives and CFOs to scrutinize high costs and prioritize tangible value over theoretical potential. This shift highlights a growing realization that AI is a specialized tool<...
Extra Episode!: AI Startups are Charities to Nvidia
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The precarious economic landscape facing artificial intelligence startups, noting that massive capital investment hides a lack of true profitability. Unlike traditional software, AI ventures struggle with staggering infrastructure costs that scale alongside revenue, making sustainable growth difficult. This environment has created a power imbalance where tech giants act as both primary investors and competitors, often absorbing smaller firms through "quasi-acquisitions" to bypass regulatory oversight. Consequently, the industry is bifurcating into niche survivors with specialized domain expertise and "zombie unicorns"...
Special Episode!: "Pro" Didn't Mean What You Think — And Now It Means Nothing at All
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The Devaluation of Pro Branding in Consumer Tech
The tech industry has systematically stripped the word "Pro" of its original meaning, transforming a once-precise technical descriptor into a hollow marketing gimmick. Historically, this label signified high-performance tools required for professional livelihoods, yet it is now routinely applied to consumer products like wireless earbuds, gaming peripherals, and home security cameras. These devices, while premium in price, often lack the technical specifications required by actual industry experts, such as...
The Thrill is Gone: The Zenith of Incrementalism: Samsung S26 Ultra and the Innovation Wall
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The stagnation of smartphone innovation through the lens of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra release. The author argues that high-end mobile devices have reached a maturation wall, where hardware updates like rounded corners and minor camera adjustments fail to excite consumers. While Samsung is leaning heavily on AI software and privacy features to fill this void, the article suggests these are merely incremental improvements rather than revolutionary leaps. This shift reflects a broader industry trend where premium phones have become <...
Showdown: Claude 4.6 vs Microsoft Copilot in Excel... the winner may not be who you think it is!
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The integration of Claude 4.6 into Excel and PowerPoint is revolutionizing white-collar productivity by automating complex financial modeling and slide creation. The author demonstrates that tasks requiring a full day for an analyst can now be completed in minutes using AI agents that understand existing data, formulas, and corporate design templates. This shift suggests that Microsoft is becoming a "dumb pipe," where the value lies in the intelligence layer rather than the software container. Consequently, the traditional "execution premium" of manual labor is evaporating...
The 100 Year Bond! The Data Center Crisis and the AI Financial Bubble?
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This discussion highlights a potential financial crisis rooted in the massive gap between artificial intelligence promises and market realities. The speaker warns that big tech companies are accumulating staggering amounts of debt to fund data center expansions that may never become profitable. A significant risk involves hyperscalers cutting capital expenditures, which could trigger a downward spiral for Taiwanese hardware manufacturers and specialized chip suppliers. The narrative suggests that current AI valuations are sustained by financial wizardry rather than genuine...
OpenAI in search of a bailout? The plummeting use of Sora, Suno and beyond
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Key industry figures are reportedly struggling to maintain a positive narrative while products like Sora and Suno face a sharp decline in "AI tourists" who quickly lose interest. The content suggests that the market is moving through a "hype cycle" toward a more sober reality where AI is viewed as a functional tool rather than a standalone miracle. Ultimately, the source argues that the most sustainable future for AI lies in specialized, professional applications and integrated features within existing ecosystems rather than speculative entertainment.
Showdown: OpenAI vs Math (Finance) OpenAI's Ad Gambit Won't Save It From the Math... OpenAI’s Desperate Race Against Math
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OpenAI introducing ads to ChatGPT and having more subscription tiers all in efforts to bolster revenues. OpenAI is in a situation of significant deficit, and these measures may only have limited effect as their expenses seem poised to continue to severely outpace even optimistic revenue plans.
The SaaSapocalypse: Agentic AI and the Software Market Crash - The SaaS Panic: When Claude Opus 4.6 Wiped a Trillion Dollars Off the Market
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The latest market panic when Claude introduced its powerful new tool that effectively puts SAAS companies at risk, causing the likes of Salesforce and even Microsoft to see a sharp drop. The new features of Claude Code, Cowork modes may well be a watershed moment, although at this point, the reports of the immediate death of SAAS may be exaggerated although, 3 to 5 years down the line, this may well be accurate.
If Microsoft Is The Undertaker, OpenAI Is That Rookie Who Forgot Wrestling Is Scripted... The Superbowl tech meltdown
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If Microsoft was a professional wrestler it would be The Undertaker. MS is seemingly ready to watch OpenAI crash and absorb it, so OpenAI looks more like another new wrestler thinking it could almost overnight compete, out think and take on a well established industry all at once. The gauche reaction and post by Sam Altman in response to Anthropic's latest CoWork and Code AI as well as its leaked internal "Code Red" in response to Google's suite of AI high performances tools, are serious signs of unraveling.
Showdown: Assistants Round 2 Samsung Bixby-Perplexity vs. Apple Siri-Gemini
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In today's showdown, comparing the moves being made by Apple and Samsung with their voice assistants based on: The Revival of Samsung Bixby with Perplexity AI Integration. Samsung is reinventing Bixby by integrating Perplexity’s AI capabilities, aiming to make it contextually smarter and more useful beyond the currently only viable aspect of it which are the Routines i.e. automation features. Assess whether this move can finally make Bixby relevant in 2026 or if it remains behind Google Assistant and Gemini. On the other side is Apple’s Gemini-Powered Siri: Why the February Upda...
Season 4 Premiere! Tesla’s Robotics Pivot: The Illusion of Innovation as Sales Sink
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How Tesla and Musk seek to sell a self defeating behavior and unprovoked mistakes into a strategic pivot, out of EVs into robotics. It's been a long time coming, from insults hurled at a diver who successfully rescued trapped people to a very public argument with the president, to being unable to get near to FSD, and even falling behind other companies while refusing to integrate liddar tech, Tesla’s significant drop in car sales is actually the driver behind this greater than ever impetus to make money off robotics. The cyber truck has...
The Human Dividend: Why AI Coding Fails the Enterprise
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Referencing sources on how many businesses seem to have acted too quickly in laying off employees and contractors in favor of AI. They are increasingly realizing that AI's current abilities to code particularly is not as advanced as initially anticipated. Significant human involvement to anticipate problems, differentiate coding by humans from that generated by AI. While less experienced coders benefit from the quick output by AI more seasoned coders spend a fair amount of time reviewing and correcting the codes from more junior coders or what is provided by AI. Businesses may well h...
Showdown: OpenAI Now vs OpenAI Then - A tale of self-destruction?
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Article in my tone about whether OpenAI code red in response to Google suite of AI tools is enough. As a 2+ years heavy user of ChatGPT, for the first time in thousands of prompts, ChatGPT wrote an answer with a word that actually doesn't exist. Even when using ChatGPT 3, never had I encountered such a situation. Is ChatGPT becoming worse in the rush to improve it? Many users have also noticed, as I have, much delayed answers and confusion as well as memory issues. This may be the fork in the road, and...
The Zero-Crease Future: Decoding Apple’s Foldable iPhone
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Industry analysts and tech reviewers are discussing a major leak regarding Apple's upcoming foldable device, which is rumored for a 2026 release. A primary focus is Samsung’s innovative display technology that utilizes a micro-perforated metal support layer to eliminate the permanent crease typically found in folding screens. Unlike traditional smartphones that open into tablets, this device may be positioned as a folding iPad Mini featuring a wider aspect ratio and a Touch ID sensor located in the power button. While the hardware may la...
Davos 2026: Echoes of the Internet bubble: The AI Consolidation Phase
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"World Economic Forum 2026: Tech, AI, and Global Innovation Strategy at Davos With the 56th World Economic Forum in Davos highlighting cooperation, innovation, and responsible scaling, discuss how AI, climate tech, and geopolitical tensions intersect at this year’s summit." stating that some people are comparing the atmosphere at Davos to be reminiscent to the Internet bubble era where tons of AI companies were in attendance trying to promote and seek investors at Davos. The reckoning may soon come where the ones without true value may soon disappear and even some of the early le...
Showdown: Apple Silicon Macs vs Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite PCs
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For years, Apple Silicon has dominated the laptop market by using vertical integration to achieve unmatched performance per watt. By designing its own hardware and software in tandem, Apple created a seamless ecosystem that prioritizes energy efficiency and thermal management. However, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite now represents a serious challenge to this supremacy by attempting to bring similar ARM-based efficiency to the broader Windows ecosystem. While Apple relies on total control, Qualcomm is betting on industrial scale...
CES 2026 Part 2: The Inevitable Robot: CES 2026 and the Shift to Utility
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The CES 2026 technology trade show signaled a pivotal transition for the robotics industry as machines shifted from spectacle-driven novelties toward practical, goal-oriented tools. Rather than focusing on flashy personality traits, new developments emphasized physical dexterity and the ability to perform reliable, repeatable tasks within healthcare, logistics, and domestic settings. These advancements suggest that robots are moving into a "boring but inevitable" phase where they function as force multipliers that support human workers rather than replacing them entirely. The emergence...
Future Forward: The Best of CES 2026
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Summarizing the top innovations and gadgets showcased at CES 2026, highlighting a diverse array of mobile tech, robotics, and interactive toys. One major focus is the revival of retro-inspired devices, such as the Clicks Communicator—a distraction-free phone designed like a BlackBerry—and the resurrection of the Pebble smartwatch line. Robotics also feature prominently, ranging from AI-powered boxing machines and chess-playing units to mobile solar stations from Jackery that track the sun. Samsung and Motorola lead the mobile hardware category with cutting-edge foldable devices, spec...
Is Samsung Quietly Admitting Defeat to Apple’s Passport-Shaped Foldable?
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 Is Samsung quietly admitting that Apple’s upcoming passport-shaped Fold iPhone is better than everything they've put out so far as well as the upcoming ZFold 8? It is arguably the potential release of a Fold Wide passport shape foldable that would be further dubbed Ultra according to some leaks, that tells us Samsung is panicking. Why release a device with the same dimensions and style as Apple, if Samsung was confident about its standard offering?Â
Unboxing experience part 2: Where Have All the Special Editions Gone? Tech Companies Forgot How to Build Loyalty
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As a continuation to the "The Death of the Unboxing Experience: Tech Companies Forgot How to Market Themselves", let's cover how special editions of devices are increasingly infrequent. While there are new devices released but only in key markets (TriFold by Samsung for instance) and obviously as test running large markets and not as a means to engage with customers and giving them what they want, especially when it comes to smartphones, tech companies are showing that it is almost entirely about making money and no longer about building dedicated fan bases. The...
The Eroding Magic of the Tech Unboxing Experience
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Technology corporations have sacrificed brand loyalty and organic marketing by stripping away the premium unboxing experience. While companies claim these reductions are for environmental protection, the author asserts the true motivation is maximizing profit margins through lower shipping and manufacturing costs. This shift has crippled a powerful content creator ecosystem, as unboxing videos no longer capture the same emotional excitement or visual appeal for audiences. By removing essential accessories and intentional packaging, brands have traded long-term identity for short-term...
Showdown: Samsung against itself Tab S Ultra vs Z Fold
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Is it time for a Samsung foldable tablet? Tremendously how the Samsung tab tablets used to be so small as to be practical to write short notes but literally came short when it came to productivity with screens to small and cramped keyboards. It was only with the tab s7+ and then the tab s8 ultra that the tablets sizes allowed for true productivity. Some even consider the tab s ultra tablets to hedge to large and this is where a foldable tablet could be both easy to carry for immediate use and...
The Foldable Future: New Designs Shaping 2026
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Our two tech analysts about the shifting landscape of foldable phones heading into 2026. The conversation should break down the four emerging categories: the pocketable flip phone, the productivity-focused book-style foldable, the versatile trifold (comparing Huawei’s Z-shape to Samsung’s C-shape), and the new widescreen foldables designed for media consumption. Ensure the dialogue covers market growth trends, such as the 30% jump expected in 2026, and mentions the impact of anticipated entries from Apple. The tone should be enthusiastic about design innovation, focusing on how improved battery tech and hinges are making these niche devices more...
Showdown: Battle Royale of Tech from 2025 to 2026
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Welcoming listeners to 2026! 2026 will be a tech showdown for the ages! The upcoming "fights" for space, covering the usual companies, products, etc such as Apple, Samsung, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Deep Seek, Meta, Perplexity, Claude Tesla Optimus, Unitree Robotics, Alibaba in particular Qwen, open source models and so on. The premise: "Battle Royale 2025 into 2026". 2025 was a year where many things shifted almost abruptly. Those that seemed in complete control or in disarray when 2025 started, found themselves by the end of 2026 often in significantly different positions. The once invulnerable Nvidia showed signs of risk from t...
Showdown (Preview): Battle Royale 2025 into 2026
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2025 was a year where many things shifted almost abruptly. Those that seemed in complete control or in disarray when 2025 started, found themselves by the end of 2026 often in significantly different positions. The once invulnerable Nvidia showed signs of risk from the perspective of investors for instance, while Apple's AI Intelligence missteps seemed to sideline the company early on, towards the end of 2026 looked like the wise thing to do. And so, many similar stories throughout 2025 show us that there is so much to see in 2026 and that shifting grounds are to be expected.<...
2026 AI Predictions: The Great Sorting Is Underway
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 AI predictions, feel free to web search what is being discussed and match them to my own views that OpenAI will either regain its stride with thoughtful innovation or that it will panic and spiral into further reactive decisions and continue its piece-meal approach with individual tools not providing a cohesive and all-encompassing customer and enterprise experience. Apple will dominate with its products and will continue to see where the chips will fall in the AI race and wait to acquire various AI tools and companies for fast tracking its development. Microsoft will c...
Tuesday Special Edition Showdown The Ecosystem Moat: Google, OpenAI, and the Battle for Workflow - Google's Apple Strategy
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 As a follow-up we compare how Google's AI ecosystem is reminiscent of Apple’s as it becomes sticky and users invested in it would find it costly to leave as tools are increasingly better integrated. As such OpenAI may soon find itself where Android ADMs Samsung were 5+ years ago where they understood that nifty features and tricks weren't enough to attract customers. Eventually, Android bridge into Chromebooks, returned to tablets, enhanced security and so on. Samsung developed Health related tools all working from a sophisticated app as well as ear buds integrated in the...
Showdown: The Ecosystem War: Google vs. OpenAI’s Battle for Workflow Integration part 1
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 The code red really means panic at OpenAI, in particular vis-a-vis Google Gemini ecosystem. The word ecosystem is key as Google provides a coherent suite of tools allowing users to complete entire projects within Google's various sophisticated AI apps and office suite for spreadsheets, documents, presentations, etc. to boot. From Nano Bahama Pro to NotebookLM and Gemini 3, to name a few. The separate components of OpenAI such as Sora vs ChatGPT demonstrate this, this is not coherent and access is more limited. Even in ChatGPT where AI Agent function exists, it can easily b...
Showdown / Deep Dive: Apple Pencil vs Samsung SPen (missing) Why I Low-Key Hope Apple Brings Apple Pencil Support to Its First Foldable
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Samsung did the mistake of confusing an engineering achievement with a strategic purpose by pursuing device thinness as the central KPI.
 Why I low-key hope Apple incorporates the Apple Pencil in its first iteration of its foldable device". First this would give Samsung a truly memorable lesson about business strategy, I.e. when you have an advantage, a moat in business, it is crucial to protect it. Number two, listen to your customers. Samsung’s headstrong approach to thinness has long disregarded customers top three requests, 1 and 2, arguably being larger battery and...
Special Episode - Apple 2026 Outlook: Apple Stepped Back on AI. That May Be the Smartest Move It Made.
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 Apple has quietly retreated and leaned into its strengths, taking criticism and rightly so for its lackluster AI rollout, but don't count Apple out... at all. With rumors of some 30 new devices for 2026, including entering the foldable category from the first time while potentially looking on as the AI economy could well contract given the limited ability at this stage to generate the type of revenue to substantiate the huge investments in model training and data centers, Apple along with its huge cash coffer, could well come out of this as one of t...
