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Car makers reject CarPlay Ultra as an Apple overreach
gatorguy said:IreneW said:Both Renault and Volvo are mentioned in the article, and both of them are flagship partners implementing Android Automotive.
So it is not a question of total control, I guess, but in what way the product is offered.
I don't know whether Car Play Ultra offers the same freedom, but perhaps someone here knows the facts. My sense is it does not, thus more reticence on the part of automakers to rely on Car Play Ultra integration.
And to be clear, The UX benefits are not what make CarPlay so useful. It's the fact that I have my information, usage records, everything on one device - my phone and don't have to transfer it between the car and my phone. I'm not an Android user and probably never will be so I don't know if "Automotive" makes this simpler with those phones. But, I'm pretty sure it would do it through Google's cloud services with all privacy concerns and connection issues that implies as you must be logging into Google all the time to us any of there services in the car. -
Eddy Cue believes Apple can reinvent sports broadcasting with Apple TV+
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Comcast extends 1.2TB monthly Xfinity data cap to nearly all customers
tedz98 said:Limited provider choices in any geographic area are primarily due to the high cost of installing infrastructure, especially problematic in low population density areas. Comcast and it’s ilk are successful because of the investment made installing coax cable into homes to support cable tv services over the past forty years. Their ability to leverage that infrastructure to provide internet service gave them an amazing financial advantage. New regulations won’t change the financial challenges faced installing new infrastructure. If there’s money to be made, providers will make the investment to build new services such as seen with fios and many new local fiber providers. Comcast deliberately sets their data caps at the 95th percentile because they know if they impact too many customers it will invite regulation. If you are a consumer in the 95th+ percentile you really have no basis to complain about being charged more. 1.2 trillion bytes is a huge amount of data. It doesn’t really matter that your games are 300 gigs. -
Comcast extends 1.2TB monthly Xfinity data cap to nearly all customers
JWSC said:Everyone here is bitching about market economics that are ultimately self correcting. One bitches about Comcast being a monopoly but, in SF Sonic is beating them on cost. Another bitches about Comcast and then moves to AT&T. What do you guys want - the Government to regulate everything and stifle infrastructure development? Come on!
You must acknowledge that a small percentage of households are extreme bandwidth users compared to the rest. It’s not necessarily fair to the rest that this small percentage take advantage of everyone else’s bandwidth.
We don’t necessarily have to like any of these companies. But they do spend billions on infrastructure. Do you want that to continue? All I’m saying is, be careful what you wish for. You may get it. -
Ring camera support teams may have access to all video recorded by users [u]
I have Ring cameras outside. I'd never allow one inside my house. I just always assume whatever is visible by them is public. I'd like to think the comments from Ring spokesperson Yassi Shahmir, were true and non-evasive, but in this day and age there is no way I'd believe the any spokesperson from any company let alone Amazon (or Google).
I've played around trying to set up my own cameras with RaspberryPI and it's a huge pain. I suppose I've accepted the intrusion for convenience sake.