Marissa Mayer is back and she wants to fix your address book

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3 points·rmason··5 comments

Ok, so good on them stating they won't sell peoples data in aggregate or in specific, but nothing is free, so how do they plan to make money.

To me consumer companies that deploy apps for free which collects our personal information, contacts, calendar etc need to start being transparent on the details first. The "trust us just use the app" days have shown that the trust was generally misplaced and so they need to get smarter on addressing this up front. Now, maybe the have discussed their basic monetization plan in other places, but it isn't in this article and if it is only told to investors and hidden from consumers then the consumer is the product and no thanks keep you app.

Maybe she could instead unfuck Google Maps that became a UX trainwreck ever since she had left? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20238332

I’m mystified here.

I don’t see anything intuitively different about the project.

Apple already auto-updates my contacts with suggested info and profile images.

If it’s truly for personal use - what’s the value add?

Please keep AI away from my contacts. They’re fine, thanks.

It's laughable that they even call it AI. They're obviously going to use consensus among other people's data to enrich your data.

For example, you have johndoe@gmail.test, but no phone number. Five other people have the same email address with a name and number. Sunshine copies that number over to you.

At least three or four other companies have done this before. The difference seems to be that Sunshine wants to use it was an entry point into the chat and events spaces.

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