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Meta lays off Reality Labs employees while continuing to hire hundreds more(businessinsider.com)
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by fidotron 2y ago
That doesn't mention the key detail of the Hydro Quebec smart thermostats: they keep remote control of the thermostat. The whole idea is they can turn down your thermostat and sell the electricity to the US instead, or it was. Somehow
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by fidotron 2y ago
Nest have done a really good job of poisoning the well of consumer IoT. If a well funded startup acquired by a tech giant isn't going to do this properly then what chance does anyone else have? Absolutely disgraceful. Fundamentally the
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by fidotron 2y ago
> If you want to sell software to schools, go and work in a bunch of them, find some obscure administrative problem, and solve that. I think this principle generalizes to: If you want to sell software to X, go and work in a bunch of X, f
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by fidotron 2y ago
What pushed YouTube over the edge was it had backers that were willing to overlook and fight for the rampant copyright violations that it had at the time. Then once big enough it then did the deals to go legit, which it now enthusiastically
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by fidotron 2y ago
The underlying problem is that humans consistently underestimate how difficult some of our "lowest" functions are, like sorting out socks and folding the laundry. Canonical rant on the subject from a previous AI wave: https:&#x2F
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by fidotron 2y ago
As long as it's not sold as "Android" to the mass public I don't think there is a meaningful problem. For example, if you go to the trouble of hacking the Play Store on to a Kindle Fire you do know it's your respons
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by fidotron 2y ago
I didn't think Huawei had released a certified Android device in many years now, as I don't believe Google would be allowed to act as a supplier to them even if they wanted to. Back around the Nexus 6P they probably got an excepti
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by fidotron 2y ago
And with that miss Ivan has forgotten that it was he himself that brought up his own disastrous Coca Cola metaphor, cause of so much angst and frustration. In a confused daze he goes to a store, buys a bottle of Coca Cola, and heads to a ne
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by fidotron 2y ago
Ivan the Terrible of metaphor goes for the deflection!
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by fidotron 2y ago
The requirement that amazes me they never gone absolutely done for was that to get certified (to carry the Play Store) you must not release any Android devices which are not certified. i.e. a given manufacturer would not be able to sell Goo
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by fidotron 2y ago
You're making a lot of noise to distract from the fact it is entirely possible to use other payment mechanisms for digital goods to consume in apps, and that from comparison to stores for physical goods we established that promoting ot
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by fidotron 2y ago
You're the Ivan the Terrible of bad metaphors and similies. They clearly anger you to an almost amusing degree. As I pointed out: > You can buy any number of in game items on iOS and then go and use those same items in the Play Stor
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by fidotron 2y ago
> So you mean to say that they made the same mistake that the supposed European users did with the app stores? Absolutely, and they learned from this, as did Apple, hence the rules they came up with to stop Google and Facebook from doing
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by fidotron 2y ago
The root of your confusion is you think when you've installed and run the app you are no longer in "Costco", but you never left. You can buy any number of in game items on iOS and then go and use those same items in the Play
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by fidotron 2y ago
> Users have no understanding of security. High status or not. Upper middle class americans absolutely do, or they don't stay that way for very long. The US has a culture of a lot more personal responsibility, and a lot less trust o
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by fidotron 2y ago
> That was my whole point. These services can all individually be provided by small businesses but there needs to be an overarching organization that links it all together and creates an abstraction people can use that centralizes billin
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by fidotron 2y ago
> Users in the US don't care about protecting their privacy either. They absolutely do, you just like to dismiss it as being about status. It was similar when RIM were on top in north america. The status came because of their associ
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by fidotron 2y ago
> From the Amazon website? No. Why not? A major detail you are ignoring here is Apple are the merchant of sale for everything via the App Store (Google at least were not for the Play Store at launch, I do not know if this has changed) so
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by fidotron 2y ago
> iPhones are a status symbol in America whereas Europeans couldn't care less. Europeans absolutely could, they're just too tight fisted to actually spend money on things like protecting privacy which is a major part of the who
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by fidotron 2y ago
> There will be a lot more space for homegrown solutions or companies ready to comply if the foreign companies currently profiting decide to leave. The core of what I'm trying to communicate is this is backwards. If you took the Eur
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by fidotron 2y ago
You cannot tell them _within the app_. You absolutely can tell the customer via your website or any other means you use to communicate with them. Do you expect Amazon marketplace sellers to be able to link to their items being on ebay or sh
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by fidotron 2y ago
It's admittedly popular with a certain demographic of would be app developers that either think the fees are what is stopping them being successful (they're not, although admittedly they are anachronistically high at this point) o
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by fidotron 2y ago
No, it's within the App that is distributed on the App Store. Plenty of companies will charge you different prices for things based on whether you get them via the App Store or their website.
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by fidotron 2y ago
Yeah, keep slinging the insults. You are perfectly free to have a website where you list your prices at one price point, and then have them different in the app because of the 30% cut, and that's very normal practice, even if everyone
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by fidotron 2y ago
The EU would have a lot more sympathy for this if there were any non trivial digital markets that originated in the EU, with the closest being Spotify, which they somehow claim is not a gatekeeper in the music industry. They aren't bei
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by fidotron 2y ago
They did the equivalent of saying to Coca Cola if you discover a customer via the App Store then we get a cut of it, which is a very normal and common arrangement, even if disagreeable.
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by fidotron 2y ago
> This seems to be a common issue for all countries, the US included. The US is much more resistant to it, which is a major factor in iOS share being higher and WhatsApp being an almost complete non event. Similarly those same users boug
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by fidotron 2y ago
Nokia was worthless by that point. Even had they run with a wild pivot to Android it would have required the strategic vision to also build an Android app store, which would have upset the various European telcos that made a few extra euros
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by fidotron 2y ago
> If you really insist on making an analogy that involves McDonalds: that's like arguing that McDonalds should not be allowed to prevent Coca-Cola from telling Coca-Cola customers that they can buy Coca-Cola in places other than McD

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