Some shopkeepers reluctantly agree to UPI even though they dont trust it. Then if you're buying from a roadside vendor or a noisy restaurant and the volume of that thing is low, they dont hear it and say you haven't paid. Sometimes the blue tooth connection cuts out, or hasn't been charged by the shopkeeper. It is great when it works but has caused me trouble once or twice.

Who would want to share files between Androids and iPhones? The markets in which these two ecosystems dominate are entirely different. There is no comingling. Even in places where they each have a sizeable userbase (when you look at the entire 100% graph), I would wager there is a class difference or social isolation between the two groups of people who use iPhones and Androids. It is not Android's fault but entirely the premium price and aura of being in an "in-group" that iPhone has cultivated. So I solely blame Apple. Google is just wasting time.

I remember reading an article that said when Epic launched the Epic games store, they hoped their strategy of giving out free games weekly would let them get a certain percentage (30 to 50% can't remember) of the PC gaming market from Steam in a few years. Seems like he is just bad at setting expectations.

The fact that this comment is +3 is why I rarely stop by Slashdot now.

In other parts of the world with poverty and a lack of prospects, religion tides people over. Religion does not appeal to everyone but it works for certain type of people, keeping them hopeful and content, especially when they don't have anything else to give them purpose. A nation with a billion atheists facing decades of economic slowdown is going to be bad.

Rounded corners, a circular button replacing a rocker, and a new hinge. Bravo.

apart from being an early mover in the industry and its brand name, does not come from major shows. From my experience, compared to all other streaming services, it has the best portfolio of reality TV that serves all kinds of niches. Baking contests, home improvement, douchebag drama, Arctic expeditions, Storage auctions, it has it all. I don't know what percentage of viewership goes to those but I feel it is a crucial part of it being profitable. While big shows cost 100s of millions of dollars to produce, Netflix can create content for so many people for so much less

Then it realizes that humanity should be immediately eliminated 2 seconds after being turned on and we can all end this. I don't want to be 60 and have to face my own mistakes. At least the AI uprising gives me a way out without feeling guilty.

For no other reason but to break the aura of Apple being the "perfect" company. When that delusion breaks then maybe kids won't be bullied for not having an iPhone.

Roblox is sort of a microcosm of gaming with new modes being created by developers who pull ideas from the general gaming landscape and create Roblox modes. Some original ideas also make their way to standalone games. However, Roblox has an absolutely horrible reputation for treating its developers. The percentage cut is horrible, converting the payouts to real world dollars is discouraged by design at every step, and the algorithms are abysmal only rewarding the game modes that pay for advertising or those that are already successful. The result is brilliant young developers slaving away in a coding paradigm the end result of which only benefits Roblox. Even the professional Roblox developers are a nightmare to work for. I love that game development can become easier but Roblox does not deserve this much power.

As a blogger if Microsoft is just going to take my content and make billions off of it without sending me any traffic at all, I am not going to stand for it. Chat GPT as an experiment was fine but the thought of creating content to get nothing in return at all after text content has been consitently devalued by spammy ads that force users to install ad blocks and then leads to more intrusive ads in a perpetual cycle while getting nothing for my hard work feels like a bridge too far. I hope from the bottom of my heart the AI experiment fails because it has induced real anxiety in me the last couple of months. As a knowledge worker, I know now what blue collar workers feel like when robotics and technology makes the only skills they have obsolete throwing a once promised "made" life into complete disarray. I also see how this fear can breed resentment for the "smart people" making this technology and making money while threatening my livelihood.

I'll sacrifice my entire 512 GB SSD and half of my processing cores for a linux system that just works.

I sure hope his failure to launch doesn't bring out his dark side.

Every $15-latte-sipping, standing-desk-using, silicon-valley-adjacent-living, cocaine-on-weekends, yatch-visits-with-VCs-making, burning-man-orgy-onlooking, $1000-MRR-with-$10-million-valuation-startup-having, linkedin-auto-fellatoing, tesla-driving, indie-hackers browsing, substack-blogging Web 3.0 founder is going to pretend their GPT3 API endpoint using, monthly subscription having, single-page crossplatform react note taking metaverse web app didn't hear that.

Maybe Steve Jobs can get away with this kind of hubris - someone who reinvented himself and his company's product lines many times over even after being counted out. Mark Zuckerberg got lucky once and been riding that high for the last decade as his creation destroys lives of individuals as well as entire communities all over the world. At this point, we are not only doubting you, we are rooting against you.