All this nonsense about fragmentation, etc... Google could have done this at anytime. They have finally taken responsibility for the wares they create. Quite happy to hear this. Two years is better than nothing. Would have been happier with three years. By the time people purchase these phones, a good 9 months could have passed. Means that end-users might only be receiving actual OTA updates for about a year.
These pronouncements always come around the time of new iPhone sales. The Washington Post story (re: embedded Chinese chips) came out around the same time the new iPhones came out and Cook suggested a retraction - not demanded, did not sue. Everyone called it an unprecedented move by a CEO but all he did was passively suggest the story was wrong... Bottom line: he just wants to make sure the iDevices, filled to the brim with data-slurping apps and FaceID, get sold to make investors and stocks prices tingle.
What happens when you empower a company with a history of sleazy business practices: Portless, borderless, possibly a soldered battery, dongles, doubling down on anti - 'right to repair', more room for Face ID pics in order to keep their DBs current, notches, price hikes, data-mining apps, social scores based on the emails they read and who you communicate with... truly courageous.
I remember the same articles being written about Apple computers in schools a few decades ago. Just a few years ago, even (way too serious) analysts were projecting the demise of conventional desktop laptops in favor of mobileOS-based tablets. Bottom line: make computers useful again. CPU, storage, access to peripherals, plenty of ports, drivers for external devices, These experiments keep failing.
When I can connect and use an external 4TB USB device to a Chrome computer (or Android device), I'll take then seriously. If the long-term strategy is too continue to push people to the cesspool of privacy-invading, security-lax cloud services in a closed kiosk-like device (no repairability, no ports) - Chromes (and their ilk) will stay in kiddie schools like the toy OSes they are.
Google is undervaluing the services they provide. They should think about charging Apple for Maps, Youtube, Docs, Translate, Search... or knock all their users off these services unless they install Google Frameworks on their devices:) Apple is a wall-garden afterall. Let them be a walled-garden, isolated from the rest the world. Provide 3rd-rate solutions to go along with their increasingly brick-like devices.
> only handle light tasks, such as browsing
Did I blink? Has browsing now become a light task? Videos, hundreds of simultaneous connections to 3rd-parties, JS overload, multiple tabs, browser extensions, browser bloat and built-in spyware...
If you told me a few years ago that putting a cutout on the screen itself would be a thing... if you later told me that a company like Google would limit the amount of cutouts directly on the screen to "just" two... The Tech industry is not what I expected and even harder to predict. Assume *inane* as the driving force behind "innovation", I guess, and work from there.
Apple has as much information, if not more (iTunes, Credit Cards, FaceID, etc), as other surveillance companies. iSheep want to believe that they haven't been lied to by the hermit-company caught in more lies than nearly anyone else. It was only a matter of time that Apple decided to cash in on the data just sitting on their servers.
Both the US and Russians need to continue to funnel 100s of millions into their military, black ops, surveillance programs. Kaspersky is the unwitting poster child to help scare their respective citizens and help fill the stomach of the beast that - ironically - threatens our very freedoms.
The same ethical principles they apply to their business model, their political manipulation, their surveillance OSes.
"Hey guys, our technology just helped profile and kill 1,000s of American Citizens last quarter! And we did it ethically!"
> "We don't bias our search results toward any political party," a Google spokesperson told Gizmodo.
It's like Orwell's newspeak. As if anyone is going to forget their vulgar behavior during the recent election.
Microsoft employees, I hear via FNews, have started a similar program. They are importing Great Horned Owls and other large aerial predators to reduce the number of feral cats - or just cats in general.
Maybe Elon Musk should be focusing on cars right about now. Seems strange that he would divert his energies on yet another project - especially one that's not commercially driven. The problem with "fake" news and/or bias, propaganda, mouthpieces to elitism, etc... is that even a good journalist can have a series of manipulative articles if s/he gets bothered enough about an issue.
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All this nonsense about fragmentation, etc... Google could have done this at anytime. They have finally taken responsibility for the wares they create. Quite happy to hear this. Two years is better than nothing. Would have been happier with three years. By the time people purchase these phones, a good 9 months could have passed. Means that end-users might only be receiving actual OTA updates for about a year.
These pronouncements always come around the time of new iPhone sales. The Washington Post story (re: embedded Chinese chips) came out around the same time the new iPhones came out and Cook suggested a retraction - not demanded, did not sue. Everyone called it an unprecedented move by a CEO but all he did was passively suggest the story was wrong... Bottom line: he just wants to make sure the iDevices, filled to the brim with data-slurping apps and FaceID, get sold to make investors and stocks prices tingle.
What happens when you empower a company with a history of sleazy business practices: Portless, borderless, possibly a soldered battery, dongles, doubling down on anti - 'right to repair', more room for Face ID pics in order to keep their DBs current, notches, price hikes, data-mining apps, social scores based on the emails they read and who you communicate with... truly courageous.
I remember the same articles being written about Apple computers in schools a few decades ago. Just a few years ago, even (way too serious) analysts were projecting the demise of conventional desktop laptops in favor of mobileOS-based tablets. Bottom line: make computers useful again. CPU, storage, access to peripherals, plenty of ports, drivers for external devices, These experiments keep failing. When I can connect and use an external 4TB USB device to a Chrome computer (or Android device), I'll take then seriously. If the long-term strategy is too continue to push people to the cesspool of privacy-invading, security-lax cloud services in a closed kiosk-like device (no repairability, no ports) - Chromes (and their ilk) will stay in kiddie schools like the toy OSes they are.
Google is undervaluing the services they provide. They should think about charging Apple for Maps, Youtube, Docs, Translate, Search... or knock all their users off these services unless they install Google Frameworks on their devices:) Apple is a wall-garden afterall. Let them be a walled-garden, isolated from the rest the world. Provide 3rd-rate solutions to go along with their increasingly brick-like devices.
Not a dropbox user but is Cryptomator an option here?
> only handle light tasks, such as browsing Did I blink? Has browsing now become a light task? Videos, hundreds of simultaneous connections to 3rd-parties, JS overload, multiple tabs, browser extensions, browser bloat and built-in spyware...
If you told me a few years ago that putting a cutout on the screen itself would be a thing... if you later told me that a company like Google would limit the amount of cutouts directly on the screen to "just" two... The Tech industry is not what I expected and even harder to predict. Assume *inane* as the driving force behind "innovation", I guess, and work from there.
Apple has as much information, if not more (iTunes, Credit Cards, FaceID, etc), as other surveillance companies. iSheep want to believe that they haven't been lied to by the hermit-company caught in more lies than nearly anyone else. It was only a matter of time that Apple decided to cash in on the data just sitting on their servers.
Both the US and Russians need to continue to funnel 100s of millions into their military, black ops, surveillance programs. Kaspersky is the unwitting poster child to help scare their respective citizens and help fill the stomach of the beast that - ironically - threatens our very freedoms.
The same ethical principles they apply to their business model, their political manipulation, their surveillance OSes. "Hey guys, our technology just helped profile and kill 1,000s of American Citizens last quarter! And we did it ethically!"
> "We don't bias our search results toward any political party," a Google spokesperson told Gizmodo. It's like Orwell's newspeak. As if anyone is going to forget their vulgar behavior during the recent election.
And plastered all over Samsung's PR BS: we take our customer's security and privacy seriously.
Microsoft employees, I hear via FNews, have started a similar program. They are importing Great Horned Owls and other large aerial predators to reduce the number of feral cats - or just cats in general.
Lots of these "deals" are payoffs for the continued (backroom) cooperation Microsoft and others provide.
Maybe Elon Musk should be focusing on cars right about now. Seems strange that he would divert his energies on yet another project - especially one that's not commercially driven. The problem with "fake" news and/or bias, propaganda, mouthpieces to elitism, etc... is that even a good journalist can have a series of manipulative articles if s/he gets bothered enough about an issue.