Comment Re: I actually agree... (Score 1) 122
Example?
I know the system isn't perfect, as stated in the article, but it's a half-reasonable step in the right direction...
A step in the right direction would be to outright ban AirBnb or demand that they assume the same risks as hotels.
All of the luxuries you just described is a rounding error for google's $257 billion (with a B) in revenue.
Definitely not. All those things add up. It's definitely more than say, 2% of the employees' salaries.
Or perhaps a rejection by a large part of the population to Facebook/Meta's crap.
It's an ads company. Their business is about personalized advertising.
I don't get my get worked up over what Meta has about you while Google has everything through Gmail, maps, and search, Amazon has it through your purchase history, and well, if you use an iPhone then Apple also has it and they're going into ads.
Why? Thereâ(TM)s already a choice if you donâ(TM)t like it. The iPhone only has 15% market share globally. Why do we need to join the race to the bottom?
I'm pretty sure you know the global market is not so important.
You can opt out, purchase an android or google device, or other smart phone OS.
And you can opt in by purchasing an iPhone. Like the poster above, for a phone, I want a walled garden, I am sure we are not the only ones
Your "if you don't like it buy something else" answer will surely bite you in the ass at some point.
Isn't that what Android is for? There it is the opt-out of the walled garden.
Sure, if you want Android
The main grippe that Zuckerberg has with Apple is only because Meta cannot track users without obtaining their consent; i.e., how everything should have been in the first place.
You might make it all about Zuckerberg, but just because it's him it doesn't mean he's right (even if his motives are not pure, obviously).
What should have been in the first place (and WAS, but we accepted the change) is the right to use what you buy as you want. This "you can't install this or that on YOUR phone" BS shouldn't be accepted.
Not that Android is much better though. You can install apps from outside the official store, sure, but those are themselves are limited intentionally by the APIs. For example, recording a call is not possible at all in Android.
More to the point, when can I offer my own adverts on Facebook without Facebook taking a cut or having a say on my ad or choosing who my ad is displayed to?
Hmmm, wait a minute, that would require Zuck to loosen up the control he has on his own walled garden. Whens that going to happen?
Any time you want. It's called posting and it's free.
Just as developers writing games for Oculus headsets have to abide by Meta's rules.
You can install anything you want on an Oculus device. You can unlock it, or you can even sideload stuff with no need to unlock. Or install an alternate store such as sidequest.
I'm an Apple iPhone user, and I want it this way. I like it this way, and I want to pay the premium to have it stay this way. I'm an informed consumer, and I like this walled garden thank you.
Maybe you can make it opt-in or opt-out so those of you in the walled garden can enjoy it while those who'd prefer being able to install anything they want, can?
At this time, nobody knows whether AGI is even possible in this universe. This is either obviously fraudulent to the proponents are deep in delusion.
Yes, that's why he went with the most naive "investors" he could find.
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission
