darkpaw

I had a Facebook account for about a year. Their algorithms decided to surface a video of two teenagers putting a kitten in a plastic bowl, squirting lighter fluid onto it, and setting it on fire.

I reported it. Facebook's moderators said it didn't breach their guidelines because "it could have been a video from an animal charity that was pointing out what they have to fight against". It wasn't from an animal charity - what sort of animal charity would show that?! - it was on the teenagers' pages.

In that moment, I closed my account, and I have had nothing further to do with that hellsite.

I don't care what Zuckerberg calls his wet dream. He is a terrible person, and I won't be having anything to do with him or his 'metaverse' bollox.

Reportedly, nearly 130,000 items a week are organized into boxes marked "destroy." Eventually the items are dumped into bins and shipped to recycling centers or landfills.

An Amazon spokesperson told iTV News that the amount of stock that the retail giant destroys is "extremely small."

I'll tell you what "could be creating problems for consumers and the businesses that want to reach people through their phones": This stupid government!

As a developer, I don't want to have 20 different mobile phone operating systems to code for. I want one or two, because every extra platform costs me time and money, but there aren't *more* consumers to sell my apps to.

When a coffee shop opens on a street, you get, say 40% of people trying it. Another one opens, but 40% of the remaining 60% don't suddenly want a coffee. There is a market of consumers, and they have decided that Apple and Google are just fine. They decided against the Facebook phone, and they decided against the Windows Phone. The market has already decided.

If the CMA decide that the two companies, Apple and Google, have "too much power", maybe they should go after, oh I don't know, the Conservatives and Labour? Those two political parties have "power" all sewn up between them!

Oh Gods, no. This is vile. And why is that calculator so thick?

Diller ... compared Apple's 30% fee to a credit card company, which would take a fee of around 2% on transactions. "It's irrational, 30%. I mean, it makes no sense," he insisted.

The credit card company takes 2% because they're only doing the transaction. What about all the other stuff, like hosting the apps, marketing, employing people to review apps, paying for bandwidth, paying for R&D, paying for the tools the developers use? Add it all up, and it's not as though 2% would cover it.

This guys should've kept quiet, because now that I'm reading about Expedia's business model and how they make their money, I'm not gonna use them.