...that Kathleen Kennedy has been replaced.

.. and wait for the inevitable request for money.

No thanks.. I will just buy products that are not cloud connected.

Unfortunately that seems to be the current trajectory of most services.. well, I guess we soon need an adblock for LLMs.

Well, he was successfull in that endeavor. He and others managed to maintain the privileges for their rich mates.

>Europe is a confusing place

It is weird how US has had both huge Defund the Police rallies and demands for more security on streets. US is a confusing place..

That is just a random example, Europe is a huge place with many people, about double the population of US, that is a lot of people with different opinions..

But if you find it weird that more than 700 million people might have different ideas or opinnions about things, well, I do suggest you read a bit more broadly to be exposed to other viewpoints.

That is not how modern platforms work, they will only block things in the countries that it is needed in, not in other places. Like in the example the blocked content is not visible from Turkey, but is from elsewhere.

If you want it to be different, you need to convince th people there to change their laws.

It does not matter what you think about cencorship, companies have to make a choice: Either they operate in a given country or not, if they do, they have to follow the laws of that country. If they do not, that the causes their revenues to be lower and companies exist to make money, so option two wins almost always.

There are really only two ways it can change: 1) people in the country in question change the laws. 2) The company is convinced that the cost to them for exiting such a market is less than the benefit they get in other markets.

Neither is very likely given that the blocking is often political and suppressing oppising views to the current regime and most people running companies know the harsh reality that people are much more likely to yell at a company to do X than actually do something about it if the company does not do anything.

Actually it is kind of a good idea to use chrome for using google services like youtube and a differemt browser for rest of the web, that way google tracking of you on third party sites is more spotty..

They seem to have problems with things like roadworks, so even if they can scan the roads more efficiently in new places, can they keep up with the "maintenance scans" to keep operating in many places?

Also, can they bring down the cost of the refitting of the vehicle to a price point where they can start undercutting the current ride hail pricing substantialy.

Both are still uncertain.

Indeed,

Transportation:

I need a car occasionally, but I still need to pay for the costs even when i do not need one and taking a ride hail is just too expensive for my use cases. So if the cost of ride hail comes down due to automation, I will most likely get rid of the car.

Software:

For software with one time cost my costs are things like a computer, the electricity and the actual software. In the traditional software market I would pay for the software when I wanted, say a functionality that only existed in the new one or something similar and if I do not need the software, it can just be on my computer taking a small amount of space. In Saas world I still need the computer, electricity and such, but I then also need to pay the continued cost and if I do not need it, there is often a period to pay even after and such. A saas model that charges by usage hours or similar might be reasonable in some situations, but the year locked, pay by month or year things are like having to buy a new copy every year or so. So it is a question of cost again ike with transportation.

...nice.

Given the trend towards worse and worse repairability in devices like phones it is nice seeing at least some progress of combatting that from the officials. It is intreseting to see how watered down it will be in actuality.

The critical sparepart availability is a nice idea, but given how companies have been practicing for evastions on this, I expect a lot of difficulty actually making companies make those parts available at reasonable prices, until there is a requirement to allow third party parts without any part DRM and the like.

>Well, the commercial enterprise has a defined monetary reason to continue to provide the product you are purchasing.

Do you really want a list of all commercial products that had huge userbases that were shut down?

>And nothing of value will be lost

No, unfortunately if Google search becomes less successfull, all the SEOs will target the other search engines more and thus make it more likely they will turn to trash too.

>Good luck getting smaller companies to agree to that.

If the smaller company wants EU customers, there are always the financial levers to pull.. Basically fines can always be collected if you get revenue from the jurisdiction in qustion.

If they do not want customers from there, then yes, a lot less levers.

>The ones who survive nuclear winter that is.

And the robot uprising.