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>"We appreciate the opportunity to work with the European Commission on an approach that addresses consumers' expectations of their wearable devices" I mean, t
by chki 6y ago
>"We appreciate the opportunity to work with the European Commission on an approach that addresses consumers' expectations of their wearable devices"
I mean, there is "corporate talk" but this is on another level.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoThe skills of a poet and the soul of.a weasel. I could do this job.
- inetknght 6y ago> The skills of a poet and the soul of.a weasel. I could do this job. Not with that wild period ruining your grammar! Grammar is important to corporate doublespeak
- bryanrasmussen 6y agohmm, so it is time to clean all these specks off the monitor again - if it were done before I would have noticed the error. on edit: although, really, bad grammar is important to corporate doublespeak as it lends an element of plausible deniability when you get called in front of committee.
- jjoonathan 6y agoEh, it was probably just auto-correct being "helpful." System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Add period with double-space (disable)
- MrVitaliy 6y agoThought it was for an informal dramatization effect. ... the soul of <pause> a weasel.
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- elgenie 6y agoIt’s actually fairly straightforward for this kind of thing. What it’s saying is that Google would desperately love to use the US‘ anti-trust standard of concentrated market power being a-OK as long as consumers aren’t obviously being hurt right that second rather than the (better) European standard of considering the prospects of competitors and potential competitors as well.
- nradov 6y agoCompetitors such as Apple, Samsung, Garmin, Coros, and Suunto are doing fine with wearable fitness tracker devices. Fitbit was on a path to failure when Google bought them. The industry was due for a shakeout and consolidation as the technology matured.
- liaukovv 6y agoThe concern is not with google dominating wearable market, but rather google solidifying it's stranglehold on ad market with more data.
- three_seagrass 6y agoGoogle holds ~55% share of the online ad market, and it's dropping an Amazon ramps up. Far from a "stranglehold".
- liaukovv 6y agoBut is dynamic of google buying up products and making them free or cheaper by subsidizing from search ads(with the goal of making search ads more profitable with additional data from free product) healthy for the market?
- WorldMaker 6y agoEspecially when it is personal health data now at risk of being used to subsidize ads? Advertising is already creepy enough trying to determine when, for instance, someone is pregnant via related purchases (and sometimes guessing correctly ahead of the person's own knowledge, per famous anecdata), just imagine how much more creepy it can get when it is data being sold to advertisers from your own wrist?
- duxup 6y agoIs that ... bad? It's just acknowledging the situation, beyond that it's not deceptive or anything IMO.
- sandworm101 6y agoIt's like a person saying: "I'm happy that the IRS has selected me for audit. I am eager to assist them in their efforts to evaluate whether I have committed a wrongdoing. I love spending money on lawyers."
- duxup 6y agoI think it's more just of an acknowledgment. I don't know what folks want in a news bit about this 'OH WOE IS ME?!?!'
- sandworm101 6y agoIt is the "we appreciate" part that is disingenuous. The honest answer would be more along the lines of "We have done nothing wrong and are confident that any investigation with exonerate us of wrongdoing." That's the sort of thing a defendant's lawyer says on the courthouse steps.
- wutbrodo 6y agoThat's communicating something different from what they intend. Your statement implies a default position of combativeness, while theirs states that they're open to some degree of regulation: > on an approach that addresses consumers' expectations of their wearable devices
- duxup 6y agoSeems kinda absurd to worry about what is a copy and paste acknowledgement that isn't going to give up any details on their approach anyhow....
- wutbrodo 6y ago