Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
Amazon's experimental wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
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This is the same kind of bullshit as all those trial offers and that auto donate shit that Trump pulled. They get you to buy something then put in type so fucking small you need an electron microscope to read it that if you don't do a certain thing by a certain time then you pretty much give away all your rights. It's fucking bullshit. This kind of sneaky predatory "you'll pay for us to create a network" bullshit should be completely illegal unless they sell the device on that alone.
In other words you don't buy an Alexa that says it works for you. They have to put in bold type THIS DEVICE WILL WORK FOR US ON YOUR DIME. Fucking assholes.
In other words you don't buy an Alexa that says it works for you. They have to put in bold type THIS DEVICE WILL WORK FOR US ON YOUR DIME. Fucking assholes.
Those Trump auto-contribute ads were awful. I don't think he's heard the end of that yet.
This is one of the reasons I disliked Apple computers as you were kinda stuck in their corral. Unfortunately MS seems to be heading in the same direction.
I remember the big lawsuit against Microsoft about its browser back in the '90's. Since Windows was really the only PC operating system, people were mad that it came with Explorer and not every other browser on earth. So the browser makers sued and won and Microsoft had to package crap like Netscape Navigator in its operating system.
Apple has never done that. They weren't sued, so they simply never did it.
Apple, historically, has gotten away with everything because they're in the minority. Since they only have a 15% market share in the PC market (that includes tablets and laptops) then nobody cares.
It's why Google and Facebook are getting looked at by everybody now but nobody cares about how there are literally hundreds of apps that do the very same corrupt things that Google and Facebook do.
Microsoft is simply conforming to what everybody else is doing now. They've played Mr. Nice Guy long enough.
Apple has never done that. They weren't sued, so they simply never did it.
Apple, historically, has gotten away with everything because they're in the minority. Since they only have a 15% market share in the PC market (that includes tablets and laptops) then nobody cares.
It's why Google and Facebook are getting looked at by everybody now but nobody cares about how there are literally hundreds of apps that do the very same corrupt things that Google and Facebook do.
Microsoft is simply conforming to what everybody else is doing now. They've played Mr. Nice Guy long enough.