simonkafan

Ah I see it now: "prefix=true" is the property that apparently includes "networking" when searched for "network"

It would already help if the rules of the app stores were decided by a parliament. And kicking a provider out of the store requires a court ruling.

It would be the downfall of the Google empire (and probably half of the Internet) if the majority of companies realized that most of their online/mobile ad budget is absolutely wasted. I don't know of any other industry where people put so much money into it only to have so little tangible evidence at the end of the day of what they really paid for ("look, X real people clicked on your ad.... at least that's what we tell you and whatever that means for you.").

My basic assumption is that most people at the big IT corps either just want to a) make money or b) work on interesting things. I don't think the majority there enjoy torturing colleagues or subordinates (although it certainly can happen). That being said, the story to me sounds entirely or at least partially made up. In this story, everyone at Apple seems to have only the goal of psychologically abusing OP. Especially the passage "the note section of a hidden slide on a deck that she had uploaded and it was an indirect suicide/murder threat" sounds absolutely implausible, why would someone put a death threat in a slide deck which clearly documents said threat?

My serious (and absolutely not mean-spirited) advice to OP: see a psychologist and talk to him about it, especially about all the "hidden signs" you supposedly received from colleagues.

I still don't see or have read about a useful use case for GPT-3. Maybe for procedurally generated chitchat between NPC in video games or an advanced Lorem ipsum generator but that's about it.

Not the same story but related: Microsoft had to rebrand his online storage SkyDrive to OneDrive once because the television broadcaster "Sky" won a trademark lawsuit in UK.

Can anyone tell me how this is possible? Why am I not allowed to use the word "sky" in any product name completely unrelated to TV?

Average employee tenure at Google is a little over 3 years so it doesn't seem to be the ultimate goal in life.

Using chatbots to solve support/sales problems is like solving the problem of autonomous driving by putting a humanoid robot behind the wheel: It's unnecessary complex overhead, just stop that!

If I communicate with a human, sure natural language is the way to go. If I communicate with a computer, I want clear, straight facts just one mouse click away. I don't want to text my way through the bot database, I don't want to add language overhead when there is no real human on the other side.

Am I the only one?

It's like if you would have to ask Google or Apple for permission when you want to open a coffee shop or any other business and have to give them 30% of your profit.

App marketplaces must be a public good and under the surveillance of the public and not controlled by a few old chief executives of Google or Apple.

Imagine you had to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard just to create something like this...

Does someone want to set up a stadiacountdown.com for Google TV?