Companies that trade on your data have no interest in enhancing privacy. While MSFT isn't exactly FB in terms of profiting off compiling data about you and selling it to advertisers, the fact that there is a market for this means MSFT will be trying to get into it.
"...it has again become inconvenient for people to get everything they want with one subscription. The Verge's Ashley Carman writes that this is pushing many people to resort to piracy."
It's inconvenient for me to get everything I want with one job. I believe I'll just start shoplifting.
It's not that it's useless, it's that for something that costs between $300 and $700, it's not delivering all that much value. (Plus, you need to have first spent about that much on an iPhone to even use it)
If the watch had some value over your phone, such as being able to be a phone itself, or... something, people would adopt it. People love nothing better than shiny luxury trinkets that they think will set them apart from the common rabble as looking more affluent. The problem with this trinket is that it's just that. It doesn't really deliver real-world value that a fitbit doesn't also deliver.
I'm was never a fanboy or anything, but Apple really seems to have lost its way without Jobs. Products coming out that aren't ready for prime time, quality issues... never would have happened before.
The thing is, people are posting less and less even of pictures. My feed is all idiotic "shares". This is why I use FB less and less with every passing month.
I wish there was a way to block ALL shares, and ONLY see original content created by someone I know. Of course, that doesn't help Zuckerberg's marketing analytics or Facebook's "you are the product" business model.
I remember Torvalds complaining about Gnome once, saying that "if you design for idiots, only idiots will use it".
I think that's fundamentally incorrect. If you don't make things idiot-friendly, then only power users will use it, and then you will never have the market share he covets. Plus, it's a false dichotomy to posit that nothing which is idiot-friendly can actually be useful.
Many lessons have yet to be learned in Linux's third decade
This is sort of the "neckbeard bubble" on display. It meets *my* needs, therefore it must meet everyone's needs. (Forgetting if that's actually true, or if it meets any of their "wants" besides)
How exactly are you going to "wear down" people who want an Apple-like simple, out of the box solution for consumer devices? Does he picture soccer moms compiling their own drivers?
Hooray, more useless "SoandSo was Live" notifications. (even though they aren't live now, and I wouldn't care if they were, and I never asked for notifications on anybody who is Live"
I wonder if the car will automatically order a new version of itself for you when MSFT decides the one you've got is too old, and you need the latest and greatest.
We consume a lot, there's no question about that. But we also produce more than any other country does, and the dollars we export in exchange for the food we import does more to feed the world than any sort of foreign aid we could organize would.
Sure, Apple's motivation is to shift liability on to the end user by taking away their own ability to help the government. But it's still important to know that they didn't have goodness in their hearts about this, and they were complying with Big Brother's requests until they decided the liability involved was a little too much for them.
If they cracked down on people selling their cables as "OEM" when they most definitely are not, or the downright counterfeit Apple cables that are sold on the site, things would be much better.
The revelation that Apple and Google are both receiving many of these requests and have complied on some of them, reversing course only recently, is an important artifact in the narrative.
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Companies that trade on your data have no interest in enhancing privacy. While MSFT isn't exactly FB in terms of profiting off compiling data about you and selling it to advertisers, the fact that there is a market for this means MSFT will be trying to get into it.
"...it has again become inconvenient for people to get everything they want with one subscription. The Verge's Ashley Carman writes that this is pushing many people to resort to piracy."
It's inconvenient for me to get everything I want with one job. I believe I'll just start shoplifting.
It's not that it's useless, it's that for something that costs between $300 and $700, it's not delivering all that much value. (Plus, you need to have first spent about that much on an iPhone to even use it)
If the watch had some value over your phone, such as being able to be a phone itself, or... something, people would adopt it. People love nothing better than shiny luxury trinkets that they think will set them apart from the common rabble as looking more affluent. The problem with this trinket is that it's just that. It doesn't really deliver real-world value that a fitbit doesn't also deliver.
I'm was never a fanboy or anything, but Apple really seems to have lost its way without Jobs. Products coming out that aren't ready for prime time, quality issues... never would have happened before.
The thing is, people are posting less and less even of pictures. My feed is all idiotic "shares". This is why I use FB less and less with every passing month.
I wish there was a way to block ALL shares, and ONLY see original content created by someone I know. Of course, that doesn't help Zuckerberg's marketing analytics or Facebook's "you are the product" business model.
Most users' primary need is for simplicity in function.
I remember Torvalds complaining about Gnome once, saying that "if you design for idiots, only idiots will use it".
I think that's fundamentally incorrect. If you don't make things idiot-friendly, then only power users will use it, and then you will never have the market share he covets. Plus, it's a false dichotomy to posit that nothing which is idiot-friendly can actually be useful.
Many lessons have yet to be learned in Linux's third decade
It's as if millions of programmers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
This is sort of the "neckbeard bubble" on display. It meets *my* needs, therefore it must meet everyone's needs. (Forgetting if that's actually true, or if it meets any of their "wants" besides)
How exactly are you going to "wear down" people who want an Apple-like simple, out of the box solution for consumer devices? Does he picture soccer moms compiling their own drivers?
Already happened on bodybuilding.com (i think it was) forums a few years ago
Hooray, more useless "SoandSo was Live" notifications. (even though they aren't live now, and I wouldn't care if they were, and I never asked for notifications on anybody who is Live"
The country exists because some people thought preserving freedom was more valuable than preserving their own lives.
I'm guessing they are still burning through all the money they raised with their IPO, while they try to build a doghouse without any nails.
I wonder if the car will automatically order a new version of itself for you when MSFT decides the one you've got is too old, and you need the latest and greatest.
My work only lets me drive the IE car. It takes me 3 hours to get home.
Thank you Manjeet. Here is my banking info.
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We consume a lot, there's no question about that. But we also produce more than any other country does, and the dollars we export in exchange for the food we import does more to feed the world than any sort of foreign aid we could organize would.
"In some cases losing jobs" :::throws the BS flag:::
Perhaps SCO found their code line-by-line in the skype kernel!
What kind of talk is that?
I have bought Amazon Basics cables for a while now, because the value proposition is decent on them.
One wonders if Amazon has one eye on their Basics business in all of this.
Sure, Apple's motivation is to shift liability on to the end user by taking away their own ability to help the government. But it's still important to know that they didn't have goodness in their hearts about this, and they were complying with Big Brother's requests until they decided the liability involved was a little too much for them.
If they cracked down on people selling their cables as "OEM" when they most definitely are not, or the downright counterfeit Apple cables that are sold on the site, things would be much better.
There has to be some middle ground between exorbitantly priced mediocre cables and garbage that will burn your house down.
The revelation that Apple and Google are both receiving many of these requests and have complied on some of them, reversing course only recently, is an important artifact in the narrative.