This is also GOOGLE chrome, it serves their ends, in the past that was to render internet unimpeded (they saw a need then), needs change. I'd rather models serve most requests locally anyway, so long as it's not destroying my battery life.

Remember the whole chrome-RAM-gate saga? This shouldn't be shocking to anyone. PC's shipping 8gb ram, Google removing ad blocker extensions, these should be the real rally points.

(I'm not using it as I'm not agreeing to their ad terms).

Do they have a record of lying to you? No.

Go read the system card. It's a lot more tame than you think, peoples are taking pieces out of this and hyping it. Doesn't mean it's not valid.

Beats brand basically disappeared after that or at the least has become "uncool".

Apple had iTunes already, they very well could've acqui-hired and improved their service themselves.

Apple music slowly died and is only becoming resurgent now, many years later.

It raises the hurdle for those looking to surveil.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

This is primarily for cloud compute I'd imagine, AI specifically. As it's generally not feasible/possible to run the state of the art models locally. Think GDPR and data sovereignty concerns, many demand privacy and can't use services without it.

All the flagships have huge screens, the big guys would have paid millions on market research, I can't understand why they arent just trying to achieve flagship parity (in terms of specs not price or software). No one is going to say it's unreasonable and they save themselves the market research

After all more valueadd, and increased production is more important than the actual human beings this valueadd was originally intended to benefit.

If you want to go searching for waifus, the algorithm will provide you with that going forward, much like if you wanted to go search flat earth stuff or whatever conspiracy you subscribe to (perhaps your above mentioned topic). The new algorithm is very sensitive to your viewing habits.

I was talking about harmless AI cat and dog videos being surprisingly enjoyable to watch.

Hardly a cultish defense of anyone, have you considered what flipping the tables and imaging what a cultish attack on anyone or anything with an entirely circumstantial link to Mr Musk may look like?

To each their own I guess, but please don't be so quick to judge.

Edit: I can't reply to your comment. My point on those above mention of conspiracy and waifus is that that is not the case. It may have been the case but the algorithm has changed and it is moot.

It is not being shoved in your face unless you search for it or engage with the random one someone in your feed shares.