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flokie··on Google Reaches 1T in market value
MSFT has deprecated 346 products to Google's 194... https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...
flokie··on Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used
Does anyone commenting on this thread even use a chrome app that's not just a wrapper on the site or a pwa? Just curious.
flokie··on 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google
They also own all of the equipment everyone else uses to make your glasses.
flokie··on Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
to be fair, only about half of us are online (3.9ish B people). Still massive opportunity to shape the experience for the rest.
flokie··on Jumping out of a Google's bubble. It's more than just a matter of self-respect
You mean one company that figured out marketing that before the rest. Apple is no saint.
flokie··on Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
"Next, someone has the idea to suggest friends, so let's grab some email contacts for that purpose."

You're joking right?

flokie··on Facebook 'mistakenly deleted' years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts
Sounds like they are getting tripped up in a lie. In one of the linked articles on techcrunch FB legal says; " we made a number of changes to protect our executives’ communications. These included limiting the retention period for Mark’s messages"

Retention policies are quite common in lots of companies. If I had to guess his posts were treated in the same way, but given it's FB of course there's an unnecessary lie weaved in, because well it's FB

flokie··on AirPods
you can use them with an Android? I have a pixel 3 and it's pretty seamless when I borrow my wife's to go for a run.
flokie··on YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
Looks like YT wrote back to that post to say that's not true?

"...Channels will not get deleted if you re-enable comments--can you send us the post where you saw that?"

flokie··on Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
How would you script "script a bot" - i think you're underestimating the effort. You'd have better luck trying to attack by mass booking manually.
flokie··on Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
That news footage in the linked article looks exactly like this scenario: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8a0jfh/autopil...

Should a product that flawed really be deployed on an honor system basis?

flokie··on Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
It seems like some are forgetting the near 6000 word 'manifesto' where this was all outlined by Mark.

"In times like these, the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the social infrastructure... "

"For the past decade, Facebook has focused on connecting friends and families. With that foundation, our next focus will be developing the social infrastructure for community -- for supporting us, for keeping us safe, for informing us, for civic engagement,"

" I have long expected more organizations and startups to build health and safety tools using technology, and I have been surprised by how little of what must be built has even been attempted. There is a real opportunity to build global safety infrastructure, and I have directed Facebook to invest more and more resources into serving this need."

This is barely a year old. Did he not lay out a vision where FB powered our civic, social & community services?

link: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-glob...

flokie··on Alphabet's earnings miss profit estimates as spending grows
>Most retailers can't depend on just click through rates. If you see a ad for Vans, you might not purchase it online, but like traditional ads, it could make you think about it when you're near a shoe store.

GOOG has already largely solved this problem via in store / online-offline attribution of ad clicks. (https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6361305?hl=en)

flokie··on Google Is Eating Apple's Ecosystem for Lunch
It's already 20% and that stat is nearly a year old

https://searchengineland.com/google-reveals-20-percent-queri...

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