I love it when people say, "Microshit is junk/sucks/etc." I always respond that Microsoft must be doing something right, because 90%+ of desktop computers around the world run Windows. There's a obviously a *market* for Windows software and with 90%+ of market penetration, I'd say that Windows is excellent (there's not many products and industries with marketshare like that). This doesn't make Windows excellent; it merely means Microsoft was in the right place at the right time and had an excellent marketing and sales division to keep them there.
I worked in a medical device company, and we partnered with a company who had 95% market share in their field. So they must have had the best technology, right? No, they just got there first and saturated the market in the absence of competition. Any time we had a question about their system not being as accurate as we expected, their response was to quote their market share at us, rather than address the technical issues.
So forgive me if I don't think "95% market share" == "excellent"
It may enable privacy invasion, but think about being able to pass information without detection. Casual contact from person to person could pass molecules that have molecularly-encoded data on them, probably encrypted on top of that.
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I love it when people say, "Microshit is junk/sucks/etc." I always respond that Microsoft must be doing something right, because 90%+ of desktop computers around the world run Windows. There's a obviously a *market* for Windows software and with 90%+ of market penetration, I'd say that Windows is excellent (there's not many products and industries with marketshare like that).
This doesn't make Windows excellent; it merely means Microsoft was in the right place at the right time and had an excellent marketing and sales division to keep them there.
I worked in a medical device company, and we partnered with a company who had 95% market share in their field. So they must have had the best technology, right? No, they just got there first and saturated the market in the absence of competition. Any time we had a question about their system not being as accurate as we expected, their response was to quote their market share at us, rather than address the technical issues.
So forgive me if I don't think "95% market share" == "excellent"
Can I patent myself? Then I can charge my kids licensing fees as derivative works.
It may enable privacy invasion, but think about being able to pass information without detection. Casual contact from person to person could pass molecules that have molecularly-encoded data on them, probably encrypted on top of that.
What could you do to stop it? Outlaw handshaking?