Departmental level bodge jobs done by someone in management who at a *stretch* might try to migrate to Access instead of a real DB when pressured to create a better solution because the current one is choked and falling down.
"I want to pick up that thing and take a bite out of it"
Out of touch and taking the good drugs while at work, yup, true denizen of the C-suites.
TSIA, really.
Still, this won't move any kind of needle for the cultists.
Now convince the beancounters who only ever learned Excel and Access that their legacy analytics plugins can be replaced.
... and risks!
Not sure they've thought their cunning plan all the way through.
*NOBODY* asked for this.
Exactly the response I've seen to at least 90% of whatever new features were being hyped by the marketing rags since Win8 hit.
Glad I have no particular use for Microsoft anymore.
tl;dr
Smart TVs are cheaper because of the expectation that the manufacturer can monetize harvested data. Many consumers look at the price tags and don't know or care about the rest.
The entire online advertising industry is rotten from the ground up.
Yes, we get it that you need to make some coin somewhere, but this is not the way.
If this means you are no longer viable as a business, well, you done been shooting yourselves in the foot, at intervals, in one way or another, since acquired by Dice. You're only a shell of what you used to be anyway. Maybe you're past your Best By date and need to go die quietly somewhere.
AI-powered subtitles? Meh, you can run just about run Whisper on a pop-up toaster these days and there are lighter solutions that work well enough.
You're not Dave. Who are you?
