The ground noise is expected to be around 60 dB(A), about 1/1000 as loud as current supersonic aircraft. This is achieved by using a long, narrow airframe and canards to keep the shock waves from coalescing.[4] It should create a 75 Perceived Level decibel (PLdB) thump on ground, as loud as closing a car door, compared with 105-110 PLdB for the Concorde.[5] Wikipedia

Cool. A car door closing is far more acceptable than thinking you’re being bombed. But yeah, the nose on it is really long. Considering that this experimental craft can only carry a pilot, any kind of passenger craft using the same technique would have to be absolutely enormous.

Apple products are great if you’re already in the ecosystem. As someone who’s only Apple product was an iPod nano, I never understood the hype. Yes, they make nice looking devices, but Apple products are all so… Locked. If you want to run Adobe Premier on your new M1 MacBook, great, it does it amazingly well. If you want to run a half dozen virtual machines on the same M1 (which has more than enough power to do it), then you’re totally out of luck.

It’s the “walled garden” approach that I don’t like. Computers, and by extension, smartphones and smart watches, are capable of so much more than what we ask of them, but if we’re not allowed to even try then why would I dig myself further into an ecosystem that says “here’s what you’re allowed to do” rather than “here’s what you can do”.

Apple has it’s place; if you like it, great, but it’s not for me.