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I'm looking for a similar solution, but I'm more interested device that isn't tied to a particular platform. Integration with an app is not high on my priority list, I just want to wake up without waking up my wife.

So far, the more interesting devices I found are:

- Sonic Alert Sonic Bomb: A digital clock with a bed shaker. I would turn of the extra loud alarm and just use the bed shaker (a vibrating disc you can place under your pillow). Highly rated on Amazon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Sonic-Alert-SBB500SS-Alarm-Shaker/dp/...

- Shake-n-Wake: A vibrating wrist watch style alarm. It's fairly bulky compared to fitness trackers, but it's quit cheap. Only 3 stars on Amazon, has apparently some quality issues. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Vibrating-Personal-Alarm-Shake...

- iLuv Smartshaker 2: just a bed shaker, a vibrating disk with sound alarm. You need an app for it though, available for Android or iOS. 3,5 starts on Amazon, so not a clear winner. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Smartshaker-iLuv-Portable-Vibrating-M...

I've tried a Fitbit fitness tracker, but the vibration isn't always strong enough to wake me up. And you have to remember to charge it (enough!) before you go to bed. Just forget the Lifemax 331 Under Pillow Vibration Alarm Clock: it's really crap.

Any suggestions, experiences or recommendations are welcome!

I don't know if most people really consider the OS to be that important anymore, as the author strongly believes. The Windows Surface Laptop is no threat to Apple because it doesn't run macOS. Samsung's smartphones are no threat to Apple because the phones don't run iOS.

Then he continues with the WeChat factor to explain the shrinking market share of Apple in China. If you consider China the trendsetter in tech, that doesn't bode well for Apple in the rest of the world. It's a clear example that an OS isn't that important anymore.

If, or better when, a platform similar to WeChat emerges in Europe or the US, Apple can't rely anymore on it's OS to sell high margin hardware like the iPhone or Mac. It's not just a China problem.

There's plenty of supply of water. Charging that much money wouldn't make any business sense, too much competition.

Did you read the BuzzFeed article?

I found this the best anagram: short, comprehensible and philosophical all-in-one.

Longer isn't always better. Sure, a giant bat is cool, but that's about it. Clitoridean directional is funny for a few seconds, maybe longer if you're stuck in puberty.

> It's actually a sleeper hit [1][2].

That's not the impression I get from reading both articles. Some publishers like Mic seem to be still in a honeymoon phase with Apple News, but there's a lot of criticism similar to Instant Articles. "Being committed to" and "spending a lot of time" doesn't equal to a financial success for publishers.

One thing I learned is that you more and more have to act as an a-hole when dealing with customer service. Otherwise they just brush you off, even if you're have a completely valid complaint or problem. Probably because of the mindset that all complaining customers are part of that 5 percent.

I'm not happy with that evolution, but that's the reality that we're living in. Now when I'm dealing with customer service I start with being myself, nice and reasonable, but as soon that I notice that they're trying to brush me off, I switch to full assertive mode. I will not yell or berate the employee, I know most of the time they are just following standard scripts or procedures, but being really persistent and not letting go is more and more the only way to get a fair treatment.

That's really unfortunate, but I guess it's the logical conclusion of outsourcing to the cheapest call centers, viewing customer service as a cost only or paying customer support employees minimum wages. It forces genuine nice people to act a certain way they wouldn't normally do and don't feel comfortable with. For me personally, I know it's just an act, it's not personal, but it takes more energy than it should be. And it helps to have worked in customer service before to put things in perspective.

If you use it that way, great, but it's not really a social network, but rather a personalized news feed with comments. Which brings us back to the OP: Twitter doesn't feel very social,

It took some time to find out on Google , but I guess MR stands for Membership Rewards. Unless you're referring to the Mongolian airline, the Dutch travel agency or the Belgian political party using the same abbreviation.

You're not looking for details, you're asking for details. Did you try Google Italy or Google Translate to translate Italian articles into English?

It's like some law: everytime there's a discussion about newspapers, subscriptions or paying for content, someone will bring up Blendle. You can fairly say by now that Blendle is the Hitler of newspaper discussions.

I don't know. It can go both ways. You seem to assume that Microsoft cleaned up their act for the better, but for all we know it could be the opposite. You don't automatically become good (or less evil) by ageing.

Good articles and many clicks (readers) aren't each others opposites. Now the mindset at Medium seems to be that quality and popularity are mutually exclusive. It's like that annoying music connoisseur: 'I was a big fan of that band, until they became popular'.

With all the ad profiling and targeting going on, is it really a coincidence that certain ads appear next to somewhat extreme content? Maybe some brands and extremist groups do share the same audience?

That fact can be hard to swallow for the marketing department of a company: 'Apparently 80 percent of our customers are white supremacists or hate gays.' Or something like: 'It seems that 1 in 3 of our shampoo buyers like beheading videos.'

Consequently those companies pulling advertising on Google and YouTube should stop selling their products and services to extremist or similar inappropriate customers. Or put a disclaimer on their products or in their TOS: 'This product can not be sold to, or used by, viewers of beheading videos, Muslim extremists, Paul Ryan voters or Breitbart readers.'

I agree Google has a terrible track record with naming products or services - although not as bad as Microsoft - but you're exagerrating a bit.

The step from Nexus 6 tot Pixel isn't that difficult to understand (and you even forgot the Nexus 6P, the successor of the Nexus 6!). Car manufactures launch new models all the time, without much problems. If someone gets confused by such thing, maybe that person is better of with a feature phone.

> relying on people to be intrigued and then read on

People have an extremely short attention span these days . You have to grab their attention right away and strongly guide them through the buying process. Intriguing doesn't work. It's a sales pitch, not an artistic short film.

You can't expect that people figure it out for themselves why they should buy the product, how it works, why it's something that they need. You have to communicate that very clearly and right away.

And honestly, whoever produced the video should have told you that.

Cold email is unsolicited, but not necessarily spam. Here's the FTC CAN-SPAM Compliance Guide For Business:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...

Source and another informative read: https://www.leadfuze.com/what-is-cold-email-and-is-it-spam/

I'm an Android user and I pay for things (?) and apps. Are you saying that I'm the only Android user who pays for apps and "things"? Or is your statement just a gratuitous cliche?

I always thought that services like Startpage or DDG paid for access to search databases, it maybe some form of revenue sharing. It's not that they're stealing the search results from Bing or Google and repackage them.

Why is it relevant that it happened on a Pride Parade, as the headline suggest? "Pilot of drone that struck woman at parade gets 30 days in jail" is perfectly fine.

Now the current headline suggests it could have been a hate crime (it's not), or that a pride parade is something particular (it's not).

It's like "Black man robs woman" instead of "Man robs woman": a little bit too specific and suggestive.

It's Uber. It's in their DNA.

>Also unlike Windows or Linux, a single macOS installation can last pretty much forever and doesn't need to reinstalled every year because of the lost performance like Windows.

You need to update your arguments. It's 2017, not 1998. I haven't reinstalled Windows on my desktop system in years and it's running perfectly fine.

My first reaction was to disable automatic updates of Firefox. I'm not against change, but the whole controversy around this issue makes me a bit wary of blindly trusting Mozilla.

I want to make sure my browser experience doesn't get ruined because of this shift. I don't have the time or patience to clean up a messy first release with webextensions only, breaking my trusted browser add-ons. First seeing, then believing.

But digital services do actively censor posts, even if your post is perfectly legal. Postal services do not destroy letters with pictures of nipples in it, just try to post an image of a female breast on Facebook. If they can censor nipples, they can actively filter hate speech or abusive posts just fine. Claimining it's too difficult to monitor posts pro–actively was probably true in 2005, but not anymore. Right now, platforms like Facebook are eating cake and having it too.

Walmart doesn't have a cash cow like AWS. It's like a free money printing press that Amazon can use to fuel its logistics expansion.

Exactly. Can't an Uber driver pick it up for me and deliver it to my house?

Or buy a different tv set for the kids. No glasses needed!

Especially vaccines. It's such a counterintuitive concept : injecting yourself with a small doses of a disease to prevent that disease. Do you want some polio, it's good for you? Er, no, go away you freak! Contrast that with atomic theory: nearly everybody can grasp the concept that bigger parts are made of smaller parts.

A modern day example of Stockholm Syndrome?

Or you could wonder how the Chinese government would react to Foxconn's intentions to open a factory in the US, and not in China. Foxconn gets lots of concessions from the Chinese government. It's easy for Beijing to twist Foxconn's arm a little bit, just enough to reconsider a US investment. Or maybe they will allow it as some kind of sop to the Trump administration.