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Afarstar said:

jfabula1 said:

So I’m thinking, if a US company get very successful in their business model & it get rich it becomes monopolistic.. 
Will Facebook be the next? 

Hopefully. 

Careful. There's a few American tech companies who have become behemoths. Apple and Amazon are two who immediately come to mind. This administration would not have been one I would expect to be insisting on business success being penalized. 

mpantone said:

There's also the privacy aspect for people who aren't wearing the AR glasses.

Doesn't anyone remember when Google Glass was being sold? There was no clear way for any random person to know whether or not the Google Glass user was recording video or not. 

I believe there was a small red light active on the lens frame when the camera was active. Otherwise, you made a great post. No matter who makes such a device, there's going to be some suspicion cast its way. No level of privacy assurances will overcome it entirely.

 +1

Regarding Apple’s Siri demo at WWDC last year, where the "new Siri" is asked about her mom’s flight landing and lunch plans:
"Among members of the Siri team at Apple, though, the demonstration was a surprise. They had never seen working versions of the capabilities, according to a former Apple employee. At the time, the only new feature from the demonstration that was activated for test devices was a pulsing, colorful ribbon that appeared on the edges of the iPhone’s screen when a user invoked Siri, the former employee said.

In other words the demo was faked and Siri had no such capabilities. It's good to see Federighi jump in and taking point, particularly with relaxing privacy focus just a tiny bit and allowing open-source third-party models. New leadership from the executive team, kudos. Perhaps something will actually be developed now. 

Japan, thank you for dumping Treasuries last night and tanking the bond market. It forces begrudging sanity in economic policy. 

9secondkox2 said:

The rest button has been pressed. The system is powered down, but will power up with a fresh set of memory banks. 

Of course things are rough the day after. But let’s give it time to do what it’s going to do. There’s no arguing the USA has been unfairly treated in the world trading stage. Giving them some of their own medicine is necessary to level tje playing field. It’s not okay for us to pay sn ram dnd a leg to sell iverseas while they have it easy here. Or to be barred from selling there while they take over here.

With the US being the world's wealthiest nation, and with the strongest economy on earth, "leveling the playing field" may not be the phrase you're looking for.