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In other years they used similar excuses like China and then Trump in 2016 and then Covid, then J6, then Covid again… Again, doomer mentality.

Why would or should an American care how much it costs for a German though?

What does that have to do with the currency difference?

Go look, you see these types of articles every year, not just 2016.

again, what's the relevance to an American who makes USD spending in USA?

if you're in USA buying things in USD does this even matter?

America has never been affordable. The real mirage is thinking it was - and no, that time it was affordable for white people because the blacks were in chains and the women couldn’t work and the rest of the world was in shambles doesn’t count.

Please don’t make Mr. Trump excited.

Why won’t the people on this site let me hide the karma it shows under my username?!?!

RIP, we will always remember him.

we're talking about e-commerce here...

why would a great UX be tied to the source being open or not?

the writing was already on the road w.r.t to user mindshare among normies. I see no evidence of the same happening with fast mail. why would anyone switch from gmail to fast mail other than privacy, which regular people couldn't care less about?

I mean something that has a clear Google analog/equivalent that way can compare on. I personally think Wolfram Alpha (assuming that's what you're talking about) isn't any better than Google.

> If I were Google I would be worried because companies like Fastmail, Notion & Proton are quickly catching up.

lol do you honestly think Google is worried about Fastmail, Notion or Proton?

existing is better than not existing and those who move fast and ship crappy software first will win. learn the lesson :)

ridiculous.

> Figuring out what is useful for people is not some difficult problem that requires shipping half baked slop

what have you shipped? paying sees literally hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to ship out fledged out software that no one wants is exactly why Stadia lasted both way too long and got cancelled anyway.

figuring out what is useful is the hardest problem. if anything that's Google's biggest problem, not shipping fast enough, not iterating fast enough.

free shipping even for returns were indeed rare, thus a refund was not free, nor complete

most of the time you would get partial refunds.

which company's product has great UX? I'm always seeing people hating on things without showcasing examples of what they think is exemplary

hardly - go read up on eBay scams. it's never been easier to scam people online. all shipping the item do is force the scam buyer to make the defects so, which is why many if not most seller just pay the buyer partially to keep as-is

scamming to get refunds has always been a thing.

laws can change - eventually this scam described in the article will be ubiquitous and unavoidable.

Eventually the concept of refunds will become very rare. In fact, it, along with free shipping were pretty rare before Amazon and Walmart.

If you travel and go to some random beach town and buy random item from random street merchant, they won’t give you a refund. Main issue to bridge is ensuring the item is expected as you can’t physically inspect prior to purchase.

It’ll be interesting to see how that’s solved. I participate in kickstarter which defacto doesn’t really offer refunds, so maybe it’ll be the same.

I'm not talking about bulk - I'm talking about the fact that regular glasses don't have cameras on them, thus don't look like regular glasses.

I've yet to see someone wear meta ray bans at work, so at least for me DoA. you're right tho. as for use case, more so a better type of Siri. presumably mics would make it much cheaper as well, on the order of a regular watch (~$100)

> Not sure why you think we have off the shelf miniaturized sonar hardware at scale and shape detection tech that could beat out mobile cameras and computer vision software.

uhm I didn't say that - what I am asking is exactly the opposite, in fact and the power glove thing was hardly capitalized. I wouldn't consider that a serious attempt.

I'm surprised no one has tried to skip cameras all together and use ultrasound. mics use two or maybe even three orders of magnitude for an audio -> object inference stack vs visual. of course you can't detect colors or do A LOT of things, but hey, you could make glasses really look like regular glasses, especially if you got rid of the screens too.

I heard of the flutter layoffs, but my understand is that it was unrelated to KMP. fwiw google still uses flutter

I know react native for windows is a thing, but is it on par with electron these days? my understand is that it was way beyond, but I could def be wrong