And how does this situation benefit the US work force?

Among other things, Indentured servants who have no power to negotiate will do illegal tasks for their boss or be sent home.

ChomeOS can also run most Android Apps. So other than running more Android apps faster or more efficiently the only other goal would seem to be more platform "lock-in."

Exactly, what ever other country does: Find ways the barriers of aquisition or entry. And if that does not work, join with others with common goals.

The US did this to England during the 19th century industrial revolution. It works!

Read: The Number Go Up!

Basically, "stable coins" of the near past do not hold the dollars necessary to be "stable."

So just obtain and keep dollars.

Stable coins have repeatedly not really been stable, as the entities that say they have dollars in reserve equal to the stable coins never do. Crypto has value for money laundrying and most of it is held and manipulating by a small pool of holders.

Grifters do make money, sometimes tons of it, on the naivety of the rubes... eh "investors." Grifters gonna grift.

Matched by their browser histories for life in their 20s and now in their 50s. What could possibly go wrong.....

The real money is made on the fluctuation in value.

Long on the way up, short on the way down.

And just because the valuation level reaches $1 billion (or 1 unicorn) does not mean a company will survive long term. That is marketing using a decades old fairy tale.

At least stocks have value beyond crypto currencies.

And while the software was of lower quality, it was cheaper to create. It's not like any software or online service is guaranteed as mercantible or secure for *any* purpose. Read the click-thru service agreement.

While customers were stuck if they were already tied to the platforms.

Basically, monopoly 101 as played in big tech.

Just like all the profit-making big tech platforms that manipulate to control and keep your attention.

And the users of the AI will become little more than serfs manipulated by the intentions of the AI creator. At least, until AGI is created, if it every is. But all that does is give the AI the control rather than it's developer.

Why do you think there is a race to create working AI glasses with audio as augmented human sense overlays?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Particularlly since the United States stole tons of IP all through the 18th century. That's how we got robber barons and the Gilded age.

The Spies Who Launched America’s Industrial Revolution from water-powered textile mills, to mechanical looms, much of the machinery that powered America's early industrial success was "borrowed" from Europe."

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,”
-- Bill Gates about Elon Musk

Of course how an AI will teach and provide critical thinking skills depends on the AI is coded and trained. For example:

Good Morning Student. Have you praised our Dear Leader this hour?

According to our surveillance system, you have not. You can reduce the 100 demerits you will earn to only 50 if you praise now.

Thank you. Your lunch ration shall now only be reduced by 50%.

Today's lesson is about how tariffs work. Tariffs are paid by countries who send us their stuff not by consumers. REMEMBER this for the test. This is the real way it works. Not reciting this truth and answering it correctly on the test will earn you a failing grade today.

Tomorrow's lesson will be about "due process." A historically old fashioned concept that kept Dear Leader from protecting you from BAD PEOPLE by shipping them to never return land. This concept was a key part of something called the constitution of the land we are in now before an EO eliminated that and many other documents and renamed our country Trumplandia.
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The way an AI teaches critical thinking is entirely dependent on its programming and training. In a scenario like the above example, the AI promotes indoctrination rather than critical thought. It uses a rewards-and-punishments system tied to obedience, disseminates biased information presented as absolute fact, and disparages historical and legal concepts. This manipulative approach would discourage independent analysis and critical evaluation, instead forcing students to parrot specific, politically motivated viewpoints.

Apple can just allow it's customers to turn it back on. Perhaps, with a warning that it was turned off by any app that does so.

It's good to be the king or the sole provider of an operating system or AI.

Nothing has changed since the 1990's when there was Mircosoft exploit every week and if you called Microsoft and asked for fix... they would not provide it.

Try running an Internet Service Provider and keep the Windows users from getting exploited. It was not possible.

The only time Microsoft would provide a quick fix was if an exploit made the nightly news. Like the "ping of death."

Actually, better yet would be the shutdown Meta and X in the US. They are worse than TikTok. They are certainly as much of a national security risk as TikTok. And if Meta could have come up with a better system, they would have by now. Instead, Meta started a campaign about all sensitive data TikTok is collecting. Well, how does Meta know this? Because they are already doing exactly the same thing,

I expect TikTok won't be sold to any group of US investors unless it is completely stripped of it's "uniquely effective IP" in any US sale. As it is in ByteDance's interest to preserve *their* IP and grow their business everywhere except the US.

How many markets is ByteDance in? How many more can they develop?

Why should they give away their "secret sauce" to a known enemy competitor who would shiv their business in any other country that they could, when they still have access to all the rest of the world.

By the end of Trump's term the Chinese, will own the EV market in any country that does not manufacturer their own cars anymore. And TikTok may be everywhere except the US. Because if your country is only a "consumer of tech", your consumers care that it products work, are serviceable and are reasonably priced for the quality delivered. If the US and Europe are too expensive, simply do not buy their stuff.

So has Trump read the Constitution and actually understood it?

We sure didn't see any proof of that in his last term. Myth-making about the Constitution? Sure. Understanding of it, Nope.

Autocrat, autocrat which will we choose?