largepeepee

Exactly, the 737 was the highest-selling commercial aircraft before the incident, and the MAX was promised to be a simple but efficient upgrade to that popular series that many already had.

What's new?

We have been using that same excuse to block out Japanese and Chinese goods in various eras.

Just feels weird the Canadians are copying our playbook

You can summarize it as

"they want more control over the people"

And AI seems to be another tool being twisted to do that

Well they are also discovering that many people would rather pay the 20-30% extra than deal with the hassle of a subpar platform.

The cost to build/maintain a competent platform is also not cheap even for the big boys like EA.

Which speaks to his point, once upon a time Sega would hog their IPs for their console and arcade games.

They changed their strat abt a decade ago.

You do realize once this is normalized, it wouldn't even come as a surprise to have them eventually mandating company devices to be on when at home and so on.

You know what's funny? Even if the numbers are hot garbage, they proved the point about how easy it is to publish fake science papers, since it got published.

Kinda similar to those researchers years back who proved how easy it was to go into certain social science journals as long as you copied their ideology.

It's also useful to point out that historical verbal tradition trained a very specific type of memory recall but that doesn't automatically make anyone wise.

Just because you memorized 10000 random articles on Wikipedia, doesn't mean you now have the wisdom to apply that in a particular circumstance.

Very much like early AI models.

I feel like it's not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored.

Many of Google's software eventually get worse too. YouTube for example has killed most of their social features by removing dislikes, limited searchability of videos by channel, allowed bots to fill the comments. And Google search has so much malware in their ads that pop up first, that even govts are recommending ad blockers by default.

Such a pity, Google used to be the most respected of the SV big tech.

Obviously it didn't work out for meta. That isn't even up for debate.

Meta has admitted to pivoting to AI and cutting down their metaverse teams significantly.

Besides, even if Apple succeed. Meta will still be stuck in the exact same situation - under Apple's boots again, which it so desperately tried to escape from by going hardware heavy in VR in the first place.

Politics in Germany is heavily sentiment driven and shorter term populous focused. So you are effectively blaming the public.

Besides these decisions were mostly driven by the company seeking profits not politics.

So you are wrong.

That is how capitalism works in reality.

Same reason why we have ex-US generals working for foreigners like the Saudi govt and no one seems to care.

It makes sense in a cynical capitalistic way.

Energy company builds green energy farms to milk govt credits/funding and getting good PR to cover their "dirtier" energy sources.

Govt credit period eventually expired, and price of coal exploded so company decides to exploit some of the many coal mines they were sitting on.

Not sure why other commentators run off-topic about something like this when it comes to Germany.

That is modern capitalism at its finest.

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.