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Your social sphere is tiny, to be quite frank. The market we're talking about is tens of millions to billions of devices. You and your four friends, or your ten

Your social sphere is tiny, to be quite frank. The market we're talking about is tens of millions to billions of devices. You and your four friends, or your ten friends, or your thousand or even hundred thousand friends are largely not relevant. The vast majority of people using computers that have these processors in them would probably give you a very puzzled look if you even asked them what CSME or ST are.

anonym29 4y ago
This is not my entire social sphere, nor is my argument that my social sphere alone has influence, it's just an example (admittedly a small one that isn't representative of the general population, see other comments) of a larger trend. Please also read my other comments where I discuss Google wanting ME-free CPUs for their servers as part of an effort to remove all proprietary blobs that was started in 2017. There is enormous institutional demand that singlehandedly justifies this offering, even if you entirely disregard the very real consumer demand. The vast majority of people cannot cover a $500 emergency expense and fall for extremely basic phishing attempts - what the "average" person wants is an objectively bad metric to strive for or to base reasonable expectations upon. The "average" person is a fool that struggles to cover the lowest levels of their hierarchy of needs, to say nothing of abstract concepts like digital privacy. Would you accept what the average person has for your financial situation? Your education? Your level of personal responsibility? I sure as hell wouldn't. Why should we factor the ignorant opinions of the tech-illiterate regarding digital privacy as a baseline for what ought to be? I know this comes across as harsh, but that's reality. Consumers these days by and large don't even understand what data is being collected about them, let alone how the data collected from them can be used against them: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/technology/online-privacy-tracking-report.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/technology/online-privacy... Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/A6kJ2 https://archive.is/A6kJ2

anonym29 4y ago

This is not my entire social sphere, nor is my argument that my social sphere alone has influence, it's just an example (admittedly a small one that isn't representative of the general population, see other comments) of a larger trend. Please also read my other comments where I discuss Google wanting ME-free CPUs for their servers as part of an effort to remove all proprietary blobs that was started in 2017. There is enormous institutional demand that singlehandedly justifies this offering, even if you entirely disregard the very real consumer demand. The vast majority of people cannot cover a $500 emergency expense and fall for extremely basic phishing attempts - what the "average" person wants is an objectively bad metric to strive for or to base reasonable expectations upon. The "average" person is a fool that struggles to cover the lowest levels of their hierarchy of needs, to say nothing of abstract concepts like digital privacy. Would you accept what the average person has for your financial situation? Your education? Your level of personal responsibility? I sure as hell wouldn't. Why should we factor the ignorant opinions of the tech-illiterate regarding digital privacy as a baseline for what ought to be? I know this comes across as harsh, but that's reality. Consumers these days by and large don't even understand what data is being collected about them, let alone how the data collected from them can be used against them: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/technology/online-privacy-tracking-report.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/technology/online-privacy... Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/A6kJ2 https://archive.is/A6kJ2