But bloggers, like you and me, are the product. Your posts sell. Your profile is important-- people must market to you! Buy something, idiot! We have the DATA ON YOU. WE KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, NOW BUY, DAMMIT!!!!!

Or not.

Like others, I'm tempted to feed such tools with foam, goo, and nonsense blather, just to throw sand into the AI engines. I might be happy that. Yeah, go ahead. Bring 'em on.

Gosh, Microsoft will optimize just like they did for the ARM Surface!

Oh, wait....

Windows: Now trailing edge technology.

Sorry. Forgot for a moment.

Hyping, pimping, influencers, shills, PACs, it's all designed for profit. Sadly, it works. Unless you're playing that game, you're an outsider. This is the value of social media, boosting ticket sales, mushrooming events--> FOMO.

The rest of us just glide along, watching the piles of money burn, the booze sold, the hotel rooms, the cities vying for sports and entertainment events, the gambling revenues, the Lambos, People buy into that shit. It's an alt.economy, all based on FOMO and greed.

But yeah, you can't buy a house in many cities because the real estate is owned by organized speculators, or hindered because of NIMBY property values. You breed a dichotomy of people living in the street, packed like sardines in their parent's homes, working wage-slave jobs. And so they gamble. They want a piece of the pie. But the distance to the pie ever-increases. So they buy myths and social media propaganda....and the twelve-hour pre-game is just part of that smoke and mirrors, and budget drain.

It's part of a pretty sorry set of values, quiet desperation, not unlike what Emerson implied.

It's a very serious insult to their clientele to write the ToS, and still worse to play them for fools when they have to claw it back. Someone needs better crisis management and better still, better legal counsel. Will they do THAT? Somehow, I doubt it.

Seems like an other CEO, baffled that his BS was found out. Lots of that going around....

You're right that they're not good business tools, but Jobs and his teams were ridiculously focused on consumers-- the end purchasers.

I'm not an Apple fanboi, and far from it, but a lot of dogged work produced a clear and early market leader that sustained its leadership-- if by monopolizing its ecosystem.

Much as I'd like to see Apple open up, I believe the DoJ (in this segment) has a very flawed argument. Google isn't a hardware company, for one. Microsoft doesn't know hardware (Balmer totally blew the Nokia acquisition), either, and is still worse at supply chain. Lenovo's purchase of Moto phones remains one of the better alternatives.

Is the barrier to entry really high? Yes. But just like there are new and bothersome competitors to Tesla coming from China, Apple will have to work hard to maintain their throne-- they've been greedy and control freaks to the max to their developer monetizing networks. If nothing else, Jobs taught the market how to do phones, did it, and left competition in the dust. This said, I use an Android phone. It's not inferior to Apple, but my phone vendor could give a flying fuck about me.

Ultimately, apps rule this space and Apple controls its ecosystem with draconian and maniacal care. You'll have to pry their fingers away, one by one, to get control. Citing the stupidity of Microsoft/Nokia, LG, and others is not going to convince a judge.

Wasn't this already in the COVID 19 vaccines, the neuro-link part? /ducking

I'm guessing it's another one, an RTOS: https://www.theregister.com/20...

Opaque and closed source is state of the art 1995.

A lot of *developers* won't trust a platform they can't see, only react to. And as licensing and monetizing is an important characteristic of business relationships today, they're quite interested in how they'll interact with a database blob.

Four things that seem to be missing:

1. A free open source license
2. Visible source so as to improve the code by others
3. SQL extensions to support OS needs including high availability/hardware tolerance, synchronization with the pub/sub model context, data bus rail integrity, and networking shims for flow flexibility and audit.
4. Comparison (in the cited article) with optimized Linux platforms, rather than poising it simply against Amazon.

It all smells like a VC hustle.

They broke the one-server-one-function and virtualization that was systematic. This broke Microsoft and their hardware friends who'd been stacking stupid racks of servers to become systems.

Optimizing workflows, having been achieved, also sparked the imagination of those that evolved Sun Jails, then Linux parallels (no pun intended) that were far more efficient at task isolation and containment. Rogue stuff could be walled.

Only highly rusted apps run on Windows servers these days. The era of needing to contain rogue Windows apps is over, and so will VMware unless they detect the lack of pulse in Win-only devs.

Unless you're constantly re-inventing, evolving and nourishing your supply chain. you're becoming trailing-edge and the marketplace will pound you flat.

For some, it's larger than a forklift upgrade; they're highly invested into the ecosystem and it rocks their world to change. These are captive, but This Is The Way of the likes of Microsoft, Oracle, and others.

The rest of those pesky customers can go eff off because they weren't worth it in support costs to VMWare.

This is where innovation ends, the Oil Well Stage. The skies will darken, and eventually the crude runs dry, but we laughed to the banks.

VMWare was once highly innovative.... until they weren't.

To go all Register on you, AI Sauce has lead and PCBs in it, and probably always will.

\Kleptocracy is a horrific robbery, and the sale of telemetry data is a prime example. No matter the jurisdiction, removal of private information, and not simple anonymizing is terribly important.

The creep of creeps peeping into personal lives must stop.

Except your insurance company knows your VIN and can cross reference your "anonymous" data with your insurer's db.

Don't kid yourself. You must not use any app, and must disconnect both antennas in your car, thus disabling both the radio and OnStar. Worse, using the entertainment system in some cars can render the telemetry data once the service dept logs into your car.

Even used cars from the 2000s have this data. You need to look at every model to determine what your data exposure risks are.

IMHO, no used car should have data sent without specific consent. Otherwise, many theories of invasion of privacy come to mind.

Except, in many states-- despite your coverage-- the time needed to repair an out of service vehicle can be charged to you, which your insurer is not liable for.

Read contracts carefully. Know what your policy does and does not cover if you rent, lease, or use an app for a Zip-like car.