matrix077

aieronimo said:

matrix077 said:

ivanh said:

Very good. You don’t need to surrender your Wi-Fi password to Kasa Smart whose servers are hosted in the Communist Party China.

So this company is Chinese?

Yes, TP-Link is Mainland Chinese.

KITA said:

AppleExposed said:

It's just as innovative as iPhone except your face is stored in some unknown data center.

If by unknown data center, you mean processed and stored locally on the phone and not shared with any other service (including Google's own services). Then yes, it's going to an "unknown data center".

https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/new-features-pixel4/

Keeping your data safe with Pixel 

Security and privacy are core principles for Pixel. Face unlock uses facial recognition technology that is processed on your device, so that image data never leaves your phone. The images used for face unlock are never saved or shared with other Google services. To protect your privacy and security, your face data is securely stored in Pixel's Titan M security chip. Similarly, Soli sensor data is also processed on your phone, and it’s never saved or shared with other Google services. 

vmarks said:

danox said:

Soli said:

What's the term for this kind of bigotry? Scapegoating? Don't you all make comments on this forum about Google, Amazon, and other non-Chinese people or owned companies breaking the law without making sweeping claims about nationalities? Should we claim that all Americans are thieves because of them? Should we say that America is inherently skullduggerous because VirnetX won yet another lawsuit against American company Apple? I don't recall anyone making any suggestion remotely of that nature on that thread.

A Chinese, Russian, or Israeli person with family (ties) can't say no, if you hire them you will pay.....

For China, Shenzhen manufacturers see hardware and product design as something that can be borrowed freely and altered. Success in business comes down to speed and execution, not originality.  Re-iterating or copying is part of the culture, and seen as an opportunity for improvement on the original, not theft. The best way to avoid copying is to make the costs or production too high, through expensive machines required to produce, expensive materials, or binary software running on boutique hardware. And even then, it's not perfect.

rain22 said:

Notsofast said:

This is why Spotify is in such trouble, and their only long term hope is to get acquired.  Despite people trying to defend their music streaming service as somehow superior, it is essentially a "commoditized" business where the primary differentiator for most people is price. Spotify would lose half its 200 Million subscribers who get it for free if they had to start paying, ditto with Amazon.  Apple Music has the most tracks and is in the most countries, but at the end of the day, 99% of what anyone wants is on every music service.

Problem for Spotify is that Amazon, Apple, and Google can leverage their music services to add value to their other revenue streams, e.g., Amazon uses it to make their incrreasing Prime Membership fees more palatable.   Spotify has lost hundreds of millions but it can't raise prices in a "commoditized" industry to offset those costs. That's why it is desperately trying to get exclusive podcasts, a likely fail in an effort to build another revenue stream. It's also why Spotify hurts artists by paying them about half of what Apple does, and why Spotify is desperately trying to use governments to go after Apple to slow down competition until it can be sold.  I wonder what their attack will be against Amazon??

Buy a clue dude. 
Spotify is just fine and making a profit now and growing fast. It’s also hands-down the best streaming service out there for sub-Hifi audio quality, best algorithms for curation of all of them, best interface, best 3rd party support, best in ease of use, most reliable, largest library... 
It’s the most integrated service on Hifi components, has the largest industry acceptance, the largest advertising base, largest subscriber base and is king of the hill for a reason. 

You are completely full of shit with a hate on for Spotify for some reason. 

All that said, the profit may not last. The company is forecasting a loss of €50 to €100 million (about $57 to $113 million) next quarter and €200 to €360 million (about $227 to $409 million) over the full year.