Or that they’re just very insecure and shortsighted and think that any negative effects on their current numbers are because of something as banal and petty as name calling instead of anti-consumer practices that drive customers away.

Say goodbye to ‘smart’ products

Silver linings?

A real piece of work more like.

The ones I’ve seen be a problem we’re so flimsy that to put enough force onto them to open the door you ended up bending them down so far they scraped the ground.

Technically the first was the same billionaires pet project, he just divested himself of it to create a new honeytrap for tech investors.

Which is also nothing compared to the general entropy of the universe.

We haven’t even finished burning the sky and boiling the sea!

So this feature is disabled if you have a pin?

Not if youre on your phone!

Why their desktop version needs to look good on your phone, I’ll never figure out…

Don’t worry, even if they welcomed it international telecom companies would sue to block it anyway.

Because it’s based on reality and doesn’t pander quite as much.

Pirate the internet! Hack the planet! DDOS the universe!

That implies it’d even be available to consumers.

You dont really improve it, just added more units. Its about volume, not quality.

Many years of indoctrination. When Google glass was introduced, it was just ‘a neat idea’. Now it’s a product, and therefore it’s clearly more trustworthy because someone is profiting from it. (/s)

On the internet no one knows youre a dog.

Now if they’re deaf tests on the other hand…

I mean, at least you can.

I’d imagine they were effectively banned, but not explicitly banned.

I believe they reach adulthood in their mid to late thirties. Merry and Pippin are technically in the equivalent of their late teens when they head off with Frodo in FotR