It’s a saturated market and email is starting to disappear (it’ll take years, but the signs are there).
They’d be better using it on the browser and ditching other products.

This in an interesting watch.
Can’t wait to have 3-4 constellations in LEO. /s

I.democratically hate all smart TVs.

So does my dumb TV. No subscriptions.

I prefer a dumb TV.

So you prefer Japanese spyware instead.

My concern is the likelyhood that companies using MS products will cut corners by using deprecated/unsupported OSs for years after the last security patch, which will lead to security breaches for many consumers.

That likelihood is high, real and current.

They’ve also been killing motorcyclists in Canada, for the same reason.

If they’re smart they won’t do that as they know people are buying their products specifically for that reason.
If they’re smart…

So long as they don’t conflate “Hamas” and “Palestinians”… which they will… so fuck’em.

Starlink is LEO, GPS is not.

Does it spy on you?

All new cars do and this one doesn’t even hide it, it’s called “id everyone”.

Ever been down the gemini rabbit hole? It’s not perfect, but quite interesting.

I.e. M$ doesn’t want people circumventing paywalls, let them use the (magnificent) wayback machine if they want to.

There’s an XKCD for that, although i do think ActivityPub could be improved.

having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask

Email is the usual analogy.

trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating.

Your average person will just land on mastodon.social without bothering to read the TOS… i mean rules, you know that.

And you missed a real key argument: network effect. If average person’s friends are on platform XYZ, that’s where average person will be (although this is stronger with messengers).

Gemini is an attempt at trying to bring the old web back, although with some technical limitations.

Calling “missing bolts” on a aircraft an “ordinary failure” is the understatement of the year.

So like the TSA?