Advertisers. And they'll include sound.

These products should be forced to have a privacy setup which guarantees that even if Facebook does accidentally get some private data, it goes no further and gets used for nothing. If they aren't safe for use in medical situations, they aren't safe to be released onto the street.

A ha ha ha ha!!! AHH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

Oh wait, you're serious?

And the converse. The company gains productivity, because instead of staying home and not working when I've got [INSERT-MILD-ILLNESS-HERE], odds are I will be at home working at my job, because while I want to stay out of the office to protect my co-workers, I'm feeling good enough to work.

Max Headroom, anyone? It was illegal to turn off the ads.

I'm just waiting for the Blipverts.

Yeah, I think we hit ultimate Poe's Law there.

My fridge just makes a noise when the door is left open. It's kind of annoying when I'm putting a lot of stuff in.

This is different. It's not financial like Munich was. This is digital sovereignty. You can't buy your way into that.

Enhancement: Just like all politicians.

Just like most humans.

And since AOL gave us the Eternal September, the timing, at least, make sense.

TFS: "includes ... financial details".

They got more self-driving cabs than Tesla, and Tesla is getting hundreds of billions in valuation from their "Robotaxi".

In either case, if they can scale this there's loads of money waiting. I think they're currently Waymo's only real competitor.

Their hardware business contains the two products they make that don't suck.

Say what you will about their software, but IMHO, they make a damned fine keyboard and mouse.

You can't say he didn't boldly go.

True, but it's a hell of a lot easier to upload a torrent of scanned books than purchased and scan them yourselves.