MacsWithPenguins

Haha. I don’t know … all I can think of is Austin Powers:

roundaboutnow said:

I was thinking Meta could just create a European entity that keeps its data in the EU. Don't know how they would sort out how interactions to/from accounts outside EU get handled, but I imagine they could figure it out.

Migrate IG, Facebook and WhatsApp users to Instagram.eu, Facebook.eu, whatsapp.eu domains, maybe? The problem is untangling non-EU users’ interactions with EU citizens. Well, I’m just thinking out loud here, not exactly well-thought out, I know. It sounds complicated.

I for one welcome a withdrawal of Meta. As a European, it would be a dream come true.

seanj said:

Amazon buying them for their customer data would be rank stupidity on their part. It’s a lazy strategy that never really pays off but keeps being repeated by CEOs over and over.

Now Apple or Withings buying it as a way to expand their wellness range makes a lot more sense.

WiThings is an interesting company: they got bought by Nokia, it didn’t work out (fitness pun not intentional), so they broke out and are better off on their own.

When I see these screenshots of the knitting app, I envision a web app, which you put on your iPhone homescreen. In iOS 15.4, Apple is seemingly adding push notification support to mobile Safari, bringing it up to par with the push notifications already in place on Safari for MacOS. It would be a perfect homescreen app, with zero app approval, and 100 % profit to the knitting app creators (minus fees for credit card processing and loads and loads of ads and other marketing promotions via Google AdSense and social media.)

Microsoft has really shown their ugly and dark side during this trial. The company is doing a lot of interesting things lately, but it's like one head of the hydra doesn't understand that all heads need to work together, putting out goodwill and being the good guy: everything from Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 (WSL 2), attempts to improve accessibility features and the continuation of support for Mac and iPad software versions of their Windows counterparts, and stop being bitter about Apple's success in the one area they failed exceptionally: Windows Phone. Please note: I'm saying this as a former Windows Phone owner and really big Lumia high-end enthusiast.

The modern-day, post-Bill Gates era of Microsoft, fails in almost everything they do, except one thing: Azure. That business is a gold mine. Xbox Game Pass (games as a service and cloud gaming) is a big success, too, but the platform as a whole lost the battle against PS4 and Microsoft is trying to win back customers in the PS5 vs Xbox Series X era, but frankly I don't know how they are progressing, since both PS5 and XB are barely selling consoles in the era of scalpers and chip shortage. Disclaimer: I'm an Xbox One S owner and previous PS enthusiast, who dropped his interest in Playstation when the PS4 came out.