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I sometimes wonder if it’s time to make a company that makes high quality dumb devices and hammers on competitors in marketing, calling out their specific priva
by ericd 7y ago
I sometimes wonder if it’s time to make a company that makes high quality dumb devices and hammers on competitors in marketing, calling out their specific privacy abuses, and the long term potential implications. Really play up the 1984 angle, private conversations being subpoenaed from Amazon, that sort of thing.
Or a smart appliance company that works with local hardware and keeps all data on premises.
- JohnFen 7y ago> Or a smart appliance company that works with local hardware and keeps all data on premises. That assumes there is a use case for data-collecting appliances that brings enough value to people that such a thing would actually be preferable over an equivalent appliance that doesn't collect that data at all. I don't think that there is such a use case for common appliances, though.