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  • Lennar now integrating Amazon Alexa surveillance into new home construction

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    dewme said:
    This article is a glass half-empty perspective that misses some brutal limitations of Apple's current offerings. I believe Amazon is more than a few steps ahead of Apple along the path to providing real-world implementations of usable Ambient Intelligence environments ———-



    Ok, Amazon is certainly working on many initiatives and partnerships rapidly, not just selling a HomePod. 

    But how is that different from Google spending the last ten years trying to invent a valuable set of use cases for Android and really only ending up with one: smartphones. All while Apple was cricisized for its focus on iPhone. And then later iPad. And then Apple TV and Apple Watch, and Home Pod.

    And then all of a sudden Apple is the not just the only one making any money across any  hardware while google keeps failing to break in, while but also Apple is learning how to monetize mobile Services better than Google (that was Google’s core competency on PC).

    Google handles twice the app downloads but makes half the revenue. It doesn’t lead in music or media. Isn’t creating anything. Hasn’t even monetized search on mobile better than it had on PC. 

    So when people are impressed at how far the hot air blows out of Amazon today, I think about the last ten years of Google and then ten years of Microsoft before that, and IBM before that. And the winning survivor through all that has been perpetually going out of business because it’s “too proprietary and moving too slow with too little unit market share.”

    And that makes me think I’m probably right about Amazon Alexa. 
    magman1979watto_cobrajony0

  • Lennar now integrating Amazon Alexa surveillance into new home construction

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    hmurchison said:
    None of these big companies are going to win anything in Home Auto. 

    The Echo is Home Auto Lite 
    Google is Diet Home Auto 
    Homekit is Home Auto bridge 

    I speak to people almost everyday that are in the midst of new construction and I ask them about what they are doing to prewire.  Most have builders 
    adding in a scant few cable and speaker runs. 

    Proper Home Auto is about infrastructure first.  It's about the local network.  Voice assistants are simply devices on the periphery and that's where Apple, Google and Amazon are playing.  They do no compromise the heart of the system. 


    One thing I’ve noticed is that it’s hard to plan for the future. Nice hotels from the 90s all thought they were future proof with cat5/6 and RJ-45 for a future of fast internet, only to find out that today almost nobody even has an Ethernet port on the computer they’re holding. 

    And shortly before that hotel rooms (and fancy homes) were wired up for extra RJ-11 for dialup internet!

    Some luxury homes from the 70s are wired up for PBX landlines, twisted pair speaker wires (maybe in stereo!) and of course central vacuum. 
    magman1979watto_cobrajony0

  • Apple Business Chat has the enterprise talking about iMessage Apps

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    ph382 said:
    Can a school district set up Business Chat to tutor students on Calculus, for example?  Or is this interwoven with the CSP software?  Trading pictures would make this possible, above and beyond a text conversation.

    On what scale are you thinking? Certainly, a teacher could directly chat with students over IM. They could even use off the shelf or even custom iM Apps for feedback/testing. The same could be done by any small business with their client base.

    The point of Apple Business Chat is to scale across thousands or millions of customers. That's what requires the CSP. 
    GeorgeBMacracerhomie3watto_cobra

  • First look: Apple's new 9.7-inch iPad with Apple Pencil support

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    GeorgeBMac said:
    I thought I heard during the presentation something about multiple students being able to sign onto a single iPad.   Was that for school only (where they're accessing a school app) -- or does it mean a multi-user iPad where each member of the family could use it?
    The education Shared iPad feature introduced in iOS 9.3 doesn't work like multiple users on a Mac. It loads server side profiles from a school's local network infrastructure. If you're wondering why an iPad doesn't support swapping between various family members' accounts on the device itself, look how much content each user would have (GB of email, photos, apps, games) and divide the internal storage by the number of users you think it should support.
    GeorgeBMacmacxpresswatto_cobra

  • After Cambridge Analytica scandal, publishers see Apple News as a solid alternative to bei...

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    sfolax said:
    Stopped reading at the first sentence, factually wrong as can always expect from a DED piece.
    The data was not obtained without permission
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/18/facebook_confirms_cambridge_analytica_stole_its_data_its_a_plot_claims_former_director/

    “Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app. In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,” the statement reads.

    The kicker’s in the last bit of that. Unless users had their Facebook privacy settings locked down the app slurped not only the 270,000 consenting users but all their friends as well - over 50 million people according to Christopher Wylie, a former researcher director at CA, who had a copy of the data set.

    Facebook is peeved that the data was collected under an academic license and then sold commercially.

    If they had a commercial license, nothing would have been said about this.

    Lastly, why don't you care about this as well - https://www.rt.com/usa/421808-obama-facebook-mine-data/


    270k people unwitting gave access to their data, which allowed the data of 50 million other people to be stolen. 

    How do you not get the words you are typing?


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