circuitfarmer

When will people stop supporting this clown?

Remember when some people were like “well, I don’t support him, but I’ve had this Twitter account forever, so I’m not leaving.” This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.

Who saw this coming???

/s

This is the way

This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.

Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.

The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone’s throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.

Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.

The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.

Meh.

It’s not designed for or good for VR gaming. As an AR device, I find it a bit silly since I can just look at a real screen. It would be a novelty at $100, but at the price Apple wants I kind of think of it like a joke.

My thoughts exactly. By this reasoning, Candy Crush Saga could get taken down for copying Bejeweled.

$3000 is way too much for a tarp stapled to the back of an overpriced pile of shit

We paid for the development of the internet. We contributed the content. Now we watch the yacht owners take advantage of both because regulators are asleep at the wheel owned by corporations.

Many companies are using AI to generate AI training data. Most of them are data brokers where the margins are becoming razor thin. It’s totally a bad idea, but it is definitely happening.

Ahahaha what do you think it’s 1995?

I’ve tried to make this point several times to folks in the industry. I work in AI, and yet every time I approach some people with “you know it ultimately just repeats patterns”, I’m met with scoffs and those people telling me I’m just not “seeing the big picture”.

But I am, and the truth is that there are limits. This tech is not the digital singularity the marketers and business goons want everyone to think it is.

Lightning (in the US; USB-C in the EU)

it still exists

The windscreen is made from high-tech Apple SpaceGlass, and the integrated HUD (*Pro car only) presents all non-Apple cars as green bubbles in real time

I think all those dongles hanging off the car would have been a problem anyway

My sentiments exactly. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, as annoying as they can be. Now that I’m not using reddit I wish them the best of luck wreaking havoc.

Apple isn’t necessarily doing anything specifically innovative

I don’t think they have really innovated for quite some time. But that said, they do know their market. They’ve got tons of people in the ecosystem and simply have to maintain them. It’s a lot easier than courting new users.

As a renter, I have no way to charge an electric car nightly. The availability of charging infrastructure outside of private homes will be more and more of an issue, unless battery tech significantly improves to be at parity with gas (e.g. I spend 10 minutes at a public charger as if I were filling a gas car).

No shit?

I’ll do one better: don’t tell Google anything personal. Or any company that makes significant revenue off of ad targeting, for that matter.

Most every other social contract has been violated already. If they don’t ignore robots.txt, what is left to violate?? Hmm??