When 6-year-olds use Samsung as a synonym for Android, you know that Samsung's marketing is crushing it. Which is a shame considering how poor their overall software quality is.
Lifetime plans is one of those dark patterns that for some reason is still considered legit. I can't think of a single lifetime plan that I've bought that have actually been lifetime, most have been sneakily killed by not updating the software anymore.
Far more useless apps have reached far higher heights. In the end, growthies cater primarily to future investors and that means growth, spectacle, FOMO and dark patterns are prioritized over usefulness and innovation.
The problem is that small businesses that are ready to invest in any custom IT are very few and far between. People will literally spend hours every day doing menaial data processing instead of paying 50 dollars for an app that does the same work in minutes. You really need to focus on the sales aspect of the business and establish a very efficient lead pipeline, preferably one where you get recurring income from subscribers.
OpenAI desperately needs to highlight legit use cases for GPT-3 least they will perceived as one of the most dangerous enablers of spam, crap content and disinformation on the planet.
Obviously it isn't but Amazon is the third largest private employer in the world and it make sense making sure they offer reasonable working conditions for their employees.
Kinda underwhelming considering it only checks four services and gives priority to random TLDs. But the idea itself has always been useful when doing naming/branding work.
If you want to understand what the fall of the USSR really resulted in, watch Bald and Bankrupt's youtube channel. He's a British guy who travels former Soviet countries and documents his everyday interactions: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCxDZs_ltFFvn0FDHT6kmoXA
I think everyone is special enough that their life data warrants preserving. If archeology and history has taught us anything, is that we are curious about the daily lives of ordinary people, to be able to understand and delete to our ancestors.
Why not? Processing power and storage will be so vast and cheap that you could simulate the entire tech stack regardless of the platform, data formats, etc.
Just like writing fiction, no one cares if you keep repeating yourself as much as you do. Keep using the de facto standards so that your fellow devs can easily read your code and get on with their work.
Any site that does not support Firefox Android is bound to have serious quality issues. Or maybe the implementation of the site is an act of malicious compliance designed to deter engagement and dissent.