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Comment Re:So, basically television (Score 1) 106

It is an unending stream of content, curated for maximum viewer engagement.

Actually it explicitly isn't, with the exception of channels dedicated to just showing one show TV has historically always contained content to specific hour or half our periods, broken up by advertisements, and often a full week between serialised episodes.

Comment Re:How would you protect children at scale? (Score 1) 106

It's a social network, children should have the same protections for freedom of expression that we give to every person.

Why? They are unable to use it responsibly. We actively censor children all the time, it's part of the recognition that they are still in fact children.

Comment Re:If anything will do it (Score 1) 55

Depends what you mean by "very few"

I think the label is legit. "Very few" may not be correct in absolute numbers, but in terms of player hours and popularity it really is. If you want to play some less popular games then sure you'll be fine, but looking at the list the red ones seem to also be the who's who of popular online titles.

Comment Re: too bad (Score 2) 288

prior to the Constitution

But we are talking about the Constitutional definition, so that is irrelevant. Speaking of the Constitution, have a look at Article 1 Section 8 Clause 16: "Congress governs the militia, while the states retain the authority to appoint officers and train the militia based on congressional regulations."

Comment Re:Well this is going to be a disaster (Score 1) 118

Depends. If the car software is feature complete then sure. But it is not uncommon for this kind of software to either have bugs or for features you paid for to be missing because the software wasn't finished.

And yet you're postulating something that effectively is not heard of in the auto industry. Not having the latest shiny != not being feature complete. You're making up scenarios which don't exist to help bolster an argument that isn't standing on its own.

Comment Re:Is this true? (Score 1) 118

It seems like this statement is not true. Instead of providing a thin client for the phone, the car makers are going to duplicate the phone software in the car.

No they aren't. There's zero cars on the market that operate as a thin client for the phone. No one would buy a car that can't do the basics without a phone, they are already duplicating everything as it is. All this does is offload things to Google that the manufacturer no longer needs to do.

It's objectively cheaper which is why quite a lot of manufacturers have moved to it already (this product has existed for 9 years already).

Also, this has no effect on branding. The car is already heavily branded with the car make.

No you misunderstood the comment. The comment was that rather having to create a complete custom infotainment system witten from the ground up running on something like QNX, their responsibility is ultimately reduced to drawing a pretty UI on top of an App / OS that Google provide. It's the difference between writing your own Browser, or writing a webpage in HTML (the latter, being your branding).

I don't think the car makers care about sharing branding with Google.

There is no sharing of branding other than you maybe recognising the maps interface. The only place I see a Google logo in my car (I have Android Automotive) is in the Settings > About > and seeing two different privacy statements. There's no Google branding anywhere, again the car manufacturer is entirely responsible for the interface display (including custom colouring in Google supplied apps like Google Maps which matchs the rest of the car's interface).

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