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Nah companies buying competitors to eliminate them is extremely common. See Disney after they bought Fox. https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/080720-1600 Mill Village fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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Decisions around large and complex issues often have many integrated considerations and ascribing the decision to any particular one is a overly reductive.
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adoration for none posted:The end of Vine, regardless of the intent by Twitter, makes a case for publicly owned or open source apps. Move these apps (or the communities built on top of them) out of the market to more solid ground so they can't get swallowed up overnight.
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The current SA drama is an excellent example of this.
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NaanViolence posted:The current SA drama is an excellent example of this. Wait Disney's buying SA??? Or twitter???
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HelloSailorSign posted:Wait Disney's buying SA??? Yes. Jack Dorsey announced that because Twitter owes so much to LF and this forum is mostly Twitter embeds, that he's buying the forums. He was Jeffrey the whole time - obviously, have you ever seen Jeffrey and Jack Dorsey in the same room??
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I thought tech companies primarily bought other tech companies to eliminate competition or for patents. In the case of twitter, I can see how Vine/Tiktok is a direct competitor considering most videos I see on twitter have the tiktok watermark in the corner anyway. Kinda like how when the gf is scrolling through facebook, all the photos are just screenshots of twitter. Also, twitter let vine live for like 4 years after the buyout. It even released vine as a stand alone app after year 1 of owning it. I doubt they bought it just to shutter it. poemdexter fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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poemdexter posted:I thought tech companies primarily bought other tech companies to eliminate competition or for patents. In the case of twitter, I can see how Vine/Tiktok is a direct competitor considering most videos I see on twitter have the tiktok watermark in the corner anyway. Kinda like how when the gf is scrolling through facebook, all the photos are just screenshots of twitter. they wouldn't buy it JUST to shutter it - you might as well see if you can get a return out of it, and buying it and immediately shuttering it is just a little too obvious to even the stupidest/republicanist antitrust enforcers at DOJ - but the point is basically that buying it and it dying isn't really a bad situation for them because they've still eliminated a potential competitor
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Buying to just shutter is an incredibly risky and costly move as what's stopping another competitor from just springing up? Your also just opening yourself up to anti trust lawsuits from every direction. So no twitter didn't buy it to shutter it and they didn't buy it because they hate minorities. Twitter is evil but in a far more banal way than that. They bought it because it was cool and trendy but they are too stupid to know why, so they ended up with a platform they had no idea what to do with or how to make money from. The 'corporate' ideal is to do what Facebook did with Instagram, purchase it before it starts to damage your business and then merge the user bases as much as possible while maintaining or even increasing the market stranglehold it has. Facebook has been far smarter with its acquisitions often keeping the product completely separate with the original creator in control until it reaches a certain threshhold of market dominance, then forcing them out (like they did with WhatsApp) Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Twitter fears antitrust lawsuits about as much as they fear the California grizzly.
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Platystemon posted:Twitter fears antitrust lawsuits about as much as they fear the California grizzly. In the US maybe. But EU antitrust is a little more serious.
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Platystemon posted:Twitter fears antitrust lawsuits about as much as they fear the California grizzly. Where and when does Jack go on mindful meditation out in the wild events?
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Mega Comrade posted:In the US maybe. But EU antitrust is a little more serious. [citation needed]
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Ladies and gentlemen, we got em
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SoftBank Uber firesale when?
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There's already been billions thrown at Uber's money fire, what's another ten million to appeal all the way?
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jaete posted:[citation needed] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google As for current stuff going on https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2020/08/04/eu-launches-antitrust-probe-into-googles-planned-acquisition-of-fitbit/#76b6cbb8622f https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/apple-eu-antitrust.html https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-e...e-idUKKBN21P229 There's literally dozens of currently ongoing probes into big tech. The EU has a lot more willingness to go after them. There is a reason slack (a US company) filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the EU and not the US, cos in the EU they might get listened to https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/22/slack-has-filed-an-antitrust-complaint-against-microsoft-teams-in-the-eu/
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this seems like a pretty obvious ploy to get drivers/riders to mobilize for the ballot measure Uber is pushing to be exempted from AB5
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take boat posted:this seems like a pretty obvious ploy to get drivers/riders to mobilize for the ballot measure Uber is pushing to be exempted from AB5 Nice to know Ubers trading their employees welfare for voting decisions
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Nice to know Ubers trading their employees welfare for voting decisions What is good for uber is good for its employees Actual employees, mind you, not that contractor trash
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Jan posted:What is good for uber is good for its employees high up employees, not those actual product makers who can and should be replaced with cheaper ones wherever possible
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eat poo poo  https://twitter.com/uhshanti/status/1293986258641854464?s=20
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All this digital storefront exclusivity business is coming to a head: https://twitter.com/verge/status/1293989979039899648
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I just had a brainwave - if Uber can't get self-driving AI to work, replace it with prison labor and/or workers with disabilities to drive remotely for $1/hr
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Absurd Alhazred posted:All this digital storefront exclusivity business is coming to a head: This will certainly resonate with the people in their 40s playing Fortnite.
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FBS posted:I just had a brainwave - if Uber can't get self-driving AI to work, replace it with prison labor and/or workers with disabilities to drive remotely for $1/hr So will AI driving be a soylent green type deal where people think its super smart robots but in reality society's technology is built on slave labor?
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poemdexter posted:This will certainly resonate with the people in their 40s playing Fortnite. I’ll have you know my 9 year old nephew and his friends love classic advertisements.
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FBS posted:I just had a brainwave - if Uber can't get self-driving AI to work, replace it with prison labor and/or workers with disabilities to drive remotely for $1/hr Nothing bad can possibly happen by enabling hundreds of human piloted, two ton drones, using an array of 720p MacBook cameras.
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so this is how the matrix was made. *machines in Zero-One* Hey the humans have patents and a bunch of tech already to attach their brains into a cyber space for reasons????
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A plot point in Metal Gear Rising was companies kidnapping South American orphans, extracting their brains and directly hooking them up to VR to train them for to be cyber soldiers. I give it a few more decades until MGR is no longer fictional.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:So will AI driving be a soylent green type deal where people think its super smart robots but in reality society's technology is built on slave labor? Buddy it already is https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/11/amazon_staff_listen_to_alexa/
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Detective No. 27 posted:A plot point in Metal Gear Rising was companies kidnapping South American orphans, extracting their brains and directly hooking them up to VR to train them for to be cyber soldiers. The rise of PMCs is inevitable at this point prepare for privatized militaries to be stronger than their governmental counterparts.
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The Oldest Man posted:Buddy it already is https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/11/amazon_staff_listen_to_alexa/
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I can't wait for the day when captchas are literally just "drive this car for us for a bit".
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Will it know if you're a human because you try to crash it on purpose to end the test as quickly as possible?
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Mister Facetious posted:Will it know if you're a human because you try to crash it on purpose to end the test as quickly as possible? Look ma, it's like Dukes of Hazzard!!
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Jordan7hm posted:I’ll have you know my 9 year old nephew and his friends love classic advertisements. this is my tech nightmare
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