So, a person creates an app, that fits a niche enough to start making money and a knockoff appears that literally steals customers. That's the real competition. And it sucks.

Wow, I did NOT SEE that coming

They are back to censoring people now. Elon isn't in charge and those that are, are in fact increasingly censoring people like the good old days.

The end is nigh

Obviously didn't see the recent bruhaha about broken AI models due to over sensitive DEI type modeling.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/ar...

That wasn't AI's LLM problem, that was a human programmer (AI Training) problem. The result is effectively censorship. Luckily we live in a free and open society, so they were caught and exposed. The results were both terrifying and Humorous. I searched on Google a few different ways to get the link above, but Google has effectively (tried to anyways) censored it.

Censorship doesn't work in a free and open society.

Class Action Lawsuit should be available, right?

And I would suggest that any terms of service that changes functionality AFTER purchase is not a legal contract, as there is no option to negotiate. Terms of Service changes that take consumers' rights away should be null and void, IMHO

You don't think they tested it?

The DEI hires most certainly did test it. They programmed (aka "trained") it do be 100% woke like them. The problem isn't the AI, it is the people.

The problem with DEI type people, they think "diversity" and immediately assume everyone is the same given certain immutable characteristics. Those values were reflected in the results. Results that showed how utterly stupid that framework actually is.

"Put a chick in it, make her lame .. and gay"

Change Form Factors and see that issue mostly disappear.

Cellphone. one of the most used Computing devices, more powerful and capable than computers just a decade or so ago.

Linux on the desktop arrived, and people didn't notice (Android). The desktop screen size shrunk (physically), but has better than VGA graphics. People shift if you don't tell them you are changing their OS.

I'm a bot?

Oh no!!!!!

Anyways ....

Most people Do Not need MS OSes any longer. There is no "value add" to them at this point for Home/Small Office. The Lone exception is perhaps Excel needs. Everything else can be substituted with other platforms and software options.

There are use cases for specific software products, but with containers taking off, those will become less platform specific.

The Nursing Program at our local University requires BS degree just to get in. It's two years after that.

Residency is after 4 years of Med School, after completing Doctorate. It is technically supervised practice of Medicine, not education.

And if you wanted, you could tack on specialization studies for those that require even MORE.

Yeah, six years vs eight years .... "pales in comparison"

In my fantasy land, we'd have a variety of medical professionals with levels of expertise that all can be called "Doctor". My best example is the modern RN, whose knowledge and skill exceed that which were called Doctors 70 years ago. Literally better suited to be Doctoring than those of yesteryear.

In 90% of my health care needs, I'd rather have a RN than a Doctor. But the laws and regulations say I can't because they are not "doctors". (Nurse Practitioners are exception to SOME of those rules).

My point is we need regulation and yet that regulation gets in the way of advancement. We need to constantly revisit those rules to see where improvement can be made.

It's not socialism, because it wasn't compelled. The transaction was 100% free will gift and not demanded by anyone and no vote was ever taken, short of the Lady Dr herself.

THIS is free enterprise (not capitalism) and thus is okay. The benefits of Free Enterprise is that people can do what they want with their money, free from dictates from others. Socialism demands compliance and fails when people can opt out. It eventually fails anyway, because people can't opt out.

See also "Charity" (in the classical definition).