Fyi, google also uses it. Has been using it before Apple. Even opensourced it so that people could make sure its effectiveness. Also, right now its AI division is doing considerable research in federated learning ( its basically, diff. provacy).
But,apple promoted this as if it was their breakthrough.
Heard of Ian Goodfellow (the GANfather)? He is one of the geniuses at G researching in this area.
Buy an Android One phone. I think some pretty good ones will come within the next 10 months with Android P built in, just like thry had Android O built in. The fragmentation problem is now being solved. Its effects will be visible by 4th quarter of 2020.
Just some questions. Niw the purpose of all these questions are to get ur viewpoint on certain issues. Thanks.
Do u encounter obnoxiousads 100% of the time? I mean Taboola ads sure, bad.
Also, if you were running website or were any other content creator making money through ads, thrn would you want 100% of visitors to use adblockers?
Also, do u think whole world should block ads, because reality is most people cannot pay for content. I mean how many subscriptions are you gonna buy, so that's why ads became the de facto way for earning revenue.
Also, a slightly different question. Not sure how to frame this. The ad revenue has enabled Alphabet to do various stuff like Verily life sciences, project loon, self driving cars. Make products like Google Maps which power transportation and are indispensable ( i know about Openstreetmap). So, is that all justifiable?
Also, do you regard Youtube ads as bad also?
Also, many people say ads are annoying. Sure, i have also felt that way sometimes. But with Youtube most of the times, i get to know about a new product/movie etc. Personally, as a student I use youtube a lot, can't imagine life without it.
I think this product might be a paid feature. Good way to monetize and recover the huge amt of R&D $. But a google person on twitter did say they are looking into ways about letting people know that it's an automated call.
Yeah. Basically there are 2 issues : security,privacy. With any data vased company privacy eill always be a concern so they should try to assure users by giving them top notch security. Google does that. Their security is great. Facebook: a big NO. Just a question. Does google listen through the microphone? Some people show demos on youtube that they talk on phone about something or even say something out loud and then see ads about it.
I think it only applies to messaging. I don't like this new approach also. No e2e is there. Plus it will take 2 years to give a good xp to a large set of users. Already looks like a flop. By that time, peoplw will be more absorbed into Whatsapp,iMessage. Whatsapp is already launching payment feature in india. I like google products but this has been very disappointing.
They should make a PWA version. Although i akready add the site icon to my home screen. Opens in chrome. But an optimized PWA would be nice. I read a WIRED story about a redesign, hope it doesn't slow it more.
exactly. no other SV co is as scientific minded as Alphabet. People focus on the fact that they make money from ads, but nobody looks at what they have done with that money. No other company has done so much for education in my opinion indirectly.( Youtube, Google Earth , Google itself). Google Classroom is also there but I am talking about education in general. As a student, if I had to wish which company survived among the top 5 if 4 had to die tomorrow, then most people in their right mind would vote for Alphabet. even haters.
One thing which I have adored about Google is X labs ( now part of Alphabet.) very few people are like Larry,Sergey who have the audacity to diversify. They are highly scientific-minded, I see Google/Alphabet both as a tech co and a research , experimentation co. That's what differentiates them from others. Sure, when they fail their success% goes down, but the knowledge acquired by scientific community goes up as a lot of Googlers go on to start their own cos.