Comment on I Hate My Friend: The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “data is the new oil”

  most people keep their phones in their pockets, which would ruin audio quality for 24/7 listening, and Apple and Android are able to restrict app permissions as well to prevent it.

  VC money doesn’t care about whether normal people actually want a device like this. what they’re really after is “we’re collecting a bunch of user-specific data that no one else has, that we can sell to people who think it’ll help them do better ad targeting (among other things)”

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah that adds up. Everything is about naked, cynical capitalism now. I guess my millennial brain is stuck in the era where I thought the point of consumer electronics was to make cool devices that people wanted to buy.

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    • Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is the end, my friend

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I blame Carl Icahn. Sure, he made a shitton of money, but only by restructuring the entire U.S. economy around quarterly returns – and seemingly quarterly layoffs.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  great explanation

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