> Apple is planning to expand its advertising business significantly by placing more ads directly on users' devices directly, Bloomberg reports. The expansion would include bringing ads to more of Apple's own apps on iPhones and iPads, including Apple Maps.
I smile remembering "if you don't pay you're the product" which apple lovers lobbied looking at G users, hinting they payment for extra margins will save them from being ad targeted.
But now:
- Paying won't save you from ads.
- You're paying but you're still the product
- And ultimately Apple also gets huge sums from Google, for selling their users.
I never got the “if you don’t pay..” arguments, it seems like you pay and still become a product. What connected devices honestly don’t collect everything possible if you pay for it? I bought a kindle and listen to audible on my phone, now I get recommendations based on my listening on the kindle. Same for a Roku, same for a cable box, same for not trying to buy a smart tv or appliance, same for nearly everything…
Reminds me of a throwaway line on West World season 3, “… before the privacy laws...” like what is it going to take to stop this? Ad industry has been an absolute disaster for the human experience IMO.
I chose the MS ecosystem over Google with similarish reasons. And now everything is dark patterns into Bing, the browser won't end to end encrypt things like synced browsing history, etc.
TVs are the same. Pay a pretty penny for a high end TV, hello, we'll still stuff this thing full of ads and tracking cookies.
I really, really wish companies would stop asking themselves "Why not both?"
I agree with telling kids the truth about factual information and being honest, absolutely, but no, fairytales for me are crucial cultural heritage. They also have numerous practical social bonding functions. It's the same with little tricks and practical jokes.
Kids need to understand the difference between fantasy and reality. They also need to learn how to evaluate information, interrogate a problem and how to come to their own conclusions. Figuring out that there isn't a Santa Clause is a seminal experience for kids that IMHO they need to come to themselves, or at least that they benefit from doing so independently.
I was discussing this with my daughters just a few days ago. One day when she was about 5 my eldest said she would like some fairy dust from the tooth fairy instead of money in return for her latest tooth. I told her to write a letter to the fairy and leave it with the tooth under her pillow. I then took a sherbet sweet, ground it up into fine powder, peeled some toilet paper into a single layer, cut it into a small square and bound up the sherbet into a tiny bundle using a thread. It was about 5 millimetres across. The look on her face when she found it was priceless.
She's now 18 and we talked about it. Things like that are important bonding experiences, it's part of the fun of growing up, developing a sense of humour, and absolutely not at all the same sort of thing as lying or real deception.
In the examples int eh article the parents were untruthful in order to coerce compliance, or to make their lives easier. The were being deceitful in a selfish way and the kids were rightly outraged. That's completely different from a shared story or fantasy, and I think that kids that don't learn that difference and appreciate it are missing out on something really important and valuable.
Is it not highly important to tell stories and fairy tales to children? Of course, you should not act like they are true, but there are often lessons that can be learned from tales. Being able to observe different levels of trueness in any story is an important skill to have I think. People like to tell in fairy tale form about their own lives often, so you should not be misled by believing everything, but observe the levels of trueness - (small) lies, omissions, facts - and evaluate what the story means to you. Telling fairy tales and stories to your children and then reflecting with them on the story could improve that skill a lot.
I agree and I try.
We did not introduced Santa Claus to our daughter.
Yet at the kindergarten they did all the christmassy things and she came back home speaking of Santa Claus.
Sometimes it's harder when the lies are considered white lies across the people surrounding you.
I understand some people feel that anything short of an OSI open-source license is somehow bad, but I don't agree with that thinking. It's another way that this product is probably a bad idea though - because there are lots of people who think like you on the license issue.
It definitely needs documentation, getting started, tutorials etc. But I never really published this or even made a website for it. Thanks for the tips!
Hey Eloff, after 4 failed startups from 2012-2018 - I've joined another late-stage high growth startup. Thanks to stock options I ended up having 7 digit wealth in 2 years
If I exited with 7 digits and still wanted to work i would think thats a major life failure.
Working at startups is not the way to wealth (i worked at too many). Goodluck and networking will get you there much quicker then hard graft. Thats how the majority of the winners come about. Getting lucky out of the blue, thats a totally different game. You idea could be the best, but because you couldnt market it, its a nothing burger. Do you want your kid to grow up around a stressed out shell? or a WFH dad who can spend their timing growing with their child?
I this guy sounds like me; my honest opinion is u can get a job, and still work on your side project. The guys i know who made it at our age, well they are telling me they wish they wernt that successful because its so much more stress. Being responsible for employees is a totally different game to SWE. It changes you.
> 7 digits and still wanted to work i would think thats a major life failure
Hey I love coding, tech, AI and I'm passionate about it. So Creating a software others use, make me so happy. Having a small team of people, who can grow with me is the other aspect which excites me.
That's a great success story and I'm happy for you. But it's not really an actionable advice. How would one go about identifying a late stage startup that will have a 7 figure exit?
Went through all worldwide & Ycombinator startups which are high growth. Registered at Workatastartup. Used https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ to see what they are searching for.
Chose 10 companies with positions where I have very strong hard skills. Interacted with the particular company's product. Wrote a nice paragraph on ideas how I can contribute.
Eloff I'm not as special and indeed you are. What I mean is, you can pause your being the founder idea for 3 years and jump on someone who found high growth. One way for you could be to join some database, postgres startups. Join their open source projects and get ideas from the team.
Well I don't know about special. It's good advice though, and your strategy for how you did that is quite actionable. It's still a lottery, but you did things to skew the odds heavily in your favor, which was smart.
1. Russia wants to eliminate Ukraine, and Armenia is the sole explicit supporter
2. Russia did the same in 1915, arming Armenian Dashnaks to kill 500K to 1million of their neighbors; Turkish or Kurdish civilians unprotected due to Ottoman war against Russia.
3. Russia in 1990 punished Azerbaidjan protests in Baku and used Armenia as a puppet which occupied not only Karabagh but an additional 20% of Azerbaijan land and killed and displayed 100K to 1million people.
4. Ataturk's presence and war against occupants from Italy, England, Greece, France starts in 1919 long after the world war 1. So your interpretation is wrong.
Finally yes I'm sad for the deaths, like everyone in Turkey. But we're sick of people who omit 5 million Turkish deaths in Balkans and Caucasus.
5. My several best mates in Turkey are Armenians. I love their everyhing. But I think Armenian nationalist heritage of Russia supported aggresiveness hurts all neighbors including Georgia too.
Armenia's sole friends are Russia and Iran - and that is not a coincidence.
Counter-historical as in not corresponding to history?
1. What?
2. Genocide denial talking point straight from the hurriyet. Massacres had been going on for 20 years in 1915.
3. Armenia didn't occupy anything until 1992. In 1990 people in NKAO were speaking of independence as were people in the rest of AZSSR, in 1991 Soviet Union with the support of AZSSR was ethnically cleansing parts of AZSSR of Armenian militias. It wasn't until 1992 that after being besieged for a year NKAO defenders broke out and started occupying anything.
4. The civilians that were death marched into the Middle East were causing those millions of deaths?
