Many people have told me that there are already 2.4 million new jobs filled by people working in all the new coal mines. Many people. These are the best jobs.
Apple's privacy rules ensure my data is kept secure from prying eyes. The benefits of a well-designed, well-built, and secure smart speaker based on Apple's A8 chip will be apparent. It looks wonderful and by all accounts sounds fantastic. I am sure Apple's HomePod will help improve my Digital Life with its sealed up, highly compresses magic inside.
HomePod is only the latest brave act in Apple's 40+ years of making the bravest brave decisions of bravery.
We used Roam Like Home when in the US, fairly cheap at $5/day. Used it a couple of times in Costa Rica but we were on wifi most of the time at the house we rented so ended up using cheap VoIP as needed, way cheaper than $10/day.
So when Apple's business model is sustainable (profitable), it's bad? What wall are they headed towards? It sounds like this story is more good news for Apple.
Apple takes home the lion's share of all mobile profits by a huge margin. Cheap Android phones don't make much money for anyone and they're the bulk of what is sold.
Anyone who defends this convenience-over-privacy should download and print Jihadi-type information, nuke plans, bio-weapons info, etc. through this service and see how long it is before there is a knock on their door.
Who on their right mind is going to spend hundreds of dollars for some minor functionality?
Back in the 1980s, I remember thinking "If only there was a way to have my girlfriend (at the time) send me her pulse so I could feel her love on my own wrist in real-time. Of course the technology wasn't there, and wouldn't be for some time, so I had to settle for her bloody heart in a jar and 25 years in a psychiatric hospital.
Yep. I have a friend who worked for a now-defunct ad placement firm. They hired people specifically for the purpose of figuring out ways around ad blockers. Of course that was dumb, because for people who are determined not to be tracked and force-fed ads, that simply makes them more determined to find ways to block things.
I recently went to renew my/. subscription because it has been some time since I last had. They are no longer offering subscriptions, not sure if it's temporary or not. One of the nice things with it was the option to turn off ads. I still run uMatrix and uBlock Origin on the site but still wanted to support them.
So it seems like they may be going straight for an ad & tracker supported model.
Linking who you share your location with their habits. Alice went to McDonalds. Bob went to Burger King. Both like fast food, show Bob ads for McDonalds.
Very elementary example, but they are basically asking the users to confirm that when Alice and Bob are in the same (or a similar) place, it is not a coincidence.
Thank you, you nailed it far more succinctly than I.
What gets me are the "So? Every other company does it." as if that makes it right. These are the same people that check in on Facebook, leave location metadata on in photos, and run Google Maps in the background because it gives them the warm fuzzies thinking they're helping.
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Many people have told me that there are already 2.4 million new jobs filled by people working in all the new coal mines. Many people. These are the best jobs.
Was David #6 "Da6d"?
"Trolling is a art,"
I truly do want an Apple HomePod.
Apple's privacy rules ensure my data is kept secure from prying eyes. The benefits of a well-designed, well-built, and secure smart speaker based on Apple's A8 chip will be apparent. It looks wonderful and by all accounts sounds fantastic. I am sure Apple's HomePod will help improve my Digital Life with its sealed up, highly compresses magic inside.
HomePod is only the latest brave act in Apple's 40+ years of making the bravest brave decisions of bravery.
Here is the product
I am not a paid Apple shill.
Curious, how much have you received in return?
You were trying to withdraw far too much cash at once.
I have never seen such a vivid graphical representation of /dev/null before. Thank you!
It's probably not the sex noises, it's the cheesy porn music he finds annoying.
You can get cable internet without subscribing to cable TV in many/most areas.
We used Roam Like Home when in the US, fairly cheap at $5/day. Used it a couple of times in Costa Rica but we were on wifi most of the time at the house we rented so ended up using cheap VoIP as needed, way cheaper than $10/day.
These robots solved the maze. Arnold and Dr. Ford will be proud.
I believe it started with SGI's IRIX desktop back in the 90s.
I used it on an Octane 2(?) for a few years. It was certainly ahead of its time.
Hey Darl, how's life in the soup line?
So when Apple's business model is sustainable (profitable), it's bad? What wall are they headed towards? It sounds like this story is more good news for Apple.
Businesses only stay in business when they make profit. So, yes, that is a good thing for their business.
I don't go to Walmart, but I'm also not in the US, so its impact on American factories means little to me.
Apple takes home the lion's share of all mobile profits by a huge margin. Cheap Android phones don't make much money for anyone and they're the bulk of what is sold.
It doesn't look like anything to me.
Anyone who defends this convenience-over-privacy should download and print Jihadi-type information, nuke plans, bio-weapons info, etc. through this service and see how long it is before there is a knock on their door.
I can't believe people willingly send their documents to Google where they will be processed by their systems and stored for however long.
I found this oddly hilarious. Well done!
Who on their right mind is going to spend hundreds of dollars for some minor functionality?
Back in the 1980s, I remember thinking "If only there was a way to have my girlfriend (at the time) send me her pulse so I could feel her love on my own wrist in real-time. Of course the technology wasn't there, and wouldn't be for some time, so I had to settle for her bloody heart in a jar and 25 years in a psychiatric hospital.
Yep. I have a friend who worked for a now-defunct ad placement firm. They hired people specifically for the purpose of figuring out ways around ad blockers. Of course that was dumb, because for people who are determined not to be tracked and force-fed ads, that simply makes them more determined to find ways to block things.
I recently went to renew my /. subscription because it has been some time since I last had. They are no longer offering subscriptions, not sure if it's temporary or not. One of the nice things with it was the option to turn off ads. I still run uMatrix and uBlock Origin on the site but still wanted to support them.
So it seems like they may be going straight for an ad & tracker supported model.
Linking who you share your location with their habits. Alice went to McDonalds. Bob went to Burger King. Both like fast food, show Bob ads for McDonalds.
Very elementary example, but they are basically asking the users to confirm that when Alice and Bob are in the same (or a similar) place, it is not a coincidence.
Thank you, you nailed it far more succinctly than I.
What gets me are the "So? Every other company does it." as if that makes it right. These are the same people that check in on Facebook, leave location metadata on in photos, and run Google Maps in the background because it gives them the warm fuzzies thinking they're helping.