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I used to work for Apple, haven’t for a few years now. Genuinely, Apple are only interested in user data about their products to make improvements.

We had Tim Cook come into the atrium of our building to give an internal speech around the time the Apple Watch launched, and he basically said (not in verbatim) that ‘We could make a lot of money mining and selling our customers data because we have over 1 Billion active devices, but we aren’t in that business so we make a lot of money selling hardware instead”.

Apple really are hamstrung by their unwillingness to mine and transmit data off their devices for external processing like google does. It’s the reason Siri is a bag of shit and Google Assistant is really good. Although it has led to them thinking out of the box quite a lot trying to build neural networks into the phones to do processing on-device and designing their CPUs to be super efficient at handing JavaScript for machine learning activities.

So do you reckon Munster will get a home semi-final this year?

I'm glad a documentary like this being made, and in Ireland no less! Good work guys!

My father was an engineer/scientist heavily involved in the nuclear industry. He spoke of the potential of the Molten Salt Reactor but always said they would never become mainstream in his lifetime.

As a young Irish person it really disgusts me the way the older generation stubbornly clings onto their archaic notions of the world and force that onto us younger folk. They don't realise that they'll be dead, and with that they will leave behind a mess that they were too stupid/afraid to tackle. So I for one hope your documentary can change some older minds and help make up the minds of those that are on the fence, although I think you'll have a hard time getting the Joe Duffy brigade to open their ears.