GigglyBobble

BwMessenger was launched in 2020 and Android Playstore shows 50k downloads. That doesn’t seem like mass-adoption. I don’t see anything replacing WhatsApp in Germany, unfortunately.

TIL IT is volunteer work.

Interesting. I see it the other way around and believe it’s only AR that’ll be a real benefit (once it lasts indefinitely and is tiny or even implanted some time in the future). Pulling out your phone to navigate somewhere is cumbersome, for example.

I happily shelled out $600 for the first iPhone. But $3,500? For a V1 product that will get way better (and cheaper) in the next few years?

Cheaper? When has the next gen Apple product ever become cheaper?

According to the article, WhatsApp requires the Signal Protocol for message encryption.

Signal is the single third party that shouldn’t have a problem with that since it’s been using that protocol before WhatsApp adopted it, too (they hired Moxi himself to help them do it, remember?)

Since Signal also uses phone numbers as account ID, you’ll give that to WhatsApp at least. Then they continue to track metadata of the messages sent between you and your WhatsApp contacts and will be profiling you.

I don’t see how communicating with any Meta service isn’t compromising privacy. I’m a Signal user and won’t connect to WhatsApp.

It’s not immoral to sell a business but anybody who actually has or even founded one and has an intact moral compass would not sell in a way you described.

You have a responsibility for your customers and employees and you don’t just throw it into the dumpster like that because money isn’t everything.

they get lazy about using/doing non device things.

That’s the key. Over the generations media (from books to smartphones) got more sophisticated in grabbing our attention to the point that addiction really has become a problem. While everything fun can be somewhat addictive we now have corporations optimizing their products in that way.

I’m sure kids can develop healthy habits with phone and internet consumption but I also believe they need help by restricting exposure in order to play “conventionally”. It’s similar to sweets - if you leave kids to just eat whatever whenever they want, they’ll stuff themselves with candy until they vomit repeatedly.

I don’t remember that. Where is it from?

Microsoft never liked competing browsers (not even in the pre-IE6 era when all they had was crap), so it’s hard to believe it came from them.

Playing poker on a wooden bench with a single light bulb next to the beach

Yep, done that. And I agree it’s great. I need a plane to visit the beach though.

what jobs does MIT’s president imagine will be created for 60 year old truckers if they’re replaced with autos? Do we get the funny joke where people suggest truckers should learn programming?

The way it’s developing, programmers will be replaced before drivers.

The only things I probably want in terms of future tech is

And how would you know? Before cars nobody anticipated them. Same with planes, computers, smartphones… You won’t anticipate close to all new tech by extrapolating what we have.

Lots of added tech makes these more likely to fail. And I don’t think they’ll be cheap to replace.

Do I win or lose when I cannot even start the survey with Javascript disabled?

or whatever they want to do to us.

Anal probing, most likely.

To the replies in the other threads, they never see fanboys defending Apple, especially not on Lemmy: see? Whataboutism and “sideloading is automatic security and privacy (?!) nightmare” kool-aid.

More direct reply: no, alternative app stores don’t imply less security. They could be more secure even. And sure it’s all about money for Apple (and other companies = irrelevant here) but that doesn’t void criticism.

I still can believe the world to rally together when it means to kill something.

The enemy must be simple though. Too complicated or invisible or something and the conspiracy nuts will take over.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand

Would be great if somehow this patent was bought out and made public domain so people outside the upper middle class could have an affordable way to track their vitals.

Apple is a strange choice as a champion for that. Their devices always have been notoriously overpriced.

nothing about android’s licensing could make it impossible to make it impossible to not lock it down

Sorry, I cannot decipher that. If you mean, this doesn’t prevent phone makers to lock down their bootloaders: sure. But I just need to find one that doesn’t and by an open source Android there will always be an image to flash. At least it’s infinitely better than Apple’s walled garden.