Was thinking the same thing. The one place in the market where they could have taken serious share while nVidia and AMD are distracted by AI chip production (and the market doesn't want Intel's AI chips) - and intel's GPU's are not half bad. Bummer.

Agreed. Way back when it was released (and years thereafter) security experts always said its encryption was suspect. The fact that locked down don't criticize the leadership Russia just always let it be in the country was a blatant message - anything you do on this platform is being read and logged for future use.

Looking at my tired (should have been replaced) 1070. I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend...

Google with their browser engine (Blink) holding monopoly marketshare on everything but iOS / iPad will be very happy with what the EU is doing for them here.

Apple may integrate RCS for its iMessage client at some point, this was from 2019. Of course for its connections to non iMessage users old SMS works everwhere, RCS has been a pot of different standards that have been different between carriers etc.. Apple has been watching, but they'd be slow to do it as they make big changes in iMessage about once a year, this is from 2019: https://www.phonearena.com/new...

Your link just pointed back to this article, not the overview you mentioned.

Totally on target here OpenSourced - they should have had an initial startup splash screen explaining the new options and letting the user choose (with a leave it the same button) - and that includes about:config and custom sync besides the url bar down at the bottom. How much work would that have been? Minimal. It would have prevented much of the disruption. Instead they have this big PR fiasco and have reduced their ~1% browser marketshare of mobile even further.

Even before that they should have had this as a second browser (Firefox Future) until feature parity was reached then switched over (cause their still far from feature parity). This goes back to the Hey Mozilla Execs, you do not have a default browser on any mobile platform you weenies - people have to go out of their way to run this and you do not want to unnecessarily disrupt them.

Found this over on the Firefox reddit, to get it back (I kid you not):

>> If you go to Settings > About Firefox and tap the logo a bunch, it will enable a few hidden options back on the main Settings page. One of which should be custom Sync and Firefox Accound settimgs.

This is a bit surprising since Duo has been relatively successful in the Marketplace and was one of the only E2E encrypted communication apps Google put out there.

Seems like we're only in the opening inning of this. Those independent contractors that can, will stop driving and fewer and fewer new people will come into the pipeline to be "new drivers".

With Lyft and Uber's cash burn rate could see this being very troublesome for those companies.

Just enough of the intelligence services bidding to keep us suspicious.

Crazy they new about it for ~6 years and didn't do anything, alot of their users important stuff in the world is protected by this.

This. Definitely one for the history books. You can see the cell service collapsing in any place that had just adequate normal service because wherever their going to use the app, there will be a ton of people in close contact (unlike any test day) with their smartphones one, overwhelming local service. First out of the gates for the 2020 election and its a face-plant for the Democrats. The leadership that pushed for this smartphone thing should be gotten rid of, literally. Apparantly things went fine for the Republicans who didn't do this fools errand of linking smartphones (and apk side loading of a smartphone app on people's personal cell phones - so I guess Android only?) with the caucuses. Outside of what apparently happened, security experts have been begging them not to do this from the beginning - and these goofs have plans to go to voting on smartphones next year - hopefully that gets tabled.

If you're trapped over on Windows and are using these things anyways, this is a good little tap on the shoulder to consider migrating to something else that won't slam you with advertising - and Microsoft still gets paid for OS installs on now machines, I believe.

If you're depending on for profit companies to defend human / personal rights you've already lost - your government is where this can be done. Because in the end, even if they had a great CEO who took a moral stand, in the end when that CEO is replaced for profit companies will do what makes the most money - and that'll be whatever the gatekeeper of the marketplace wants them to do. Remember Google trying to get their secret "dragonfly" project up and running in China before anyone could say anything? Yep, whatever gets more $$$ is where companies will go, if that means supporting tyranny, they'll line up.

Sad to see Apple buckling under pressure for access to ~30% of their world market, but there it is. If they didn't, their CEO would be out after the stock collapse and replaced with one who'd do whatever the Chinese government wants.

Thanks for posting. Yeah the corruption of business lobbying contributions (which didn't start till the 70's) has been embraced by both parties, although only openly by the Republicans. Its the root of tilting all our non social issue legislation into whatever benefits whatever business is paying instead of what is good for the country or the average citizen.