joelfromaus

That’s more likely to be the answer. If Apple were content having Google’s sloppy seconds while having full opportunity to make Alphabet level profits^1^ then the world would turn upside down. It’s more likely that Apple doesn’t see an easy avenue to those mountains of ad-revenue money without compromising their privacy image. Might as well take Google’s cheque to the bank the same time as iCloud subscription profits cheque.

*1: I should probably clarify that I mean on top of what they already earn.

Still unsupported in Australia, unfortunately (｡╯︵╰｡)

“Somehow, the murder hornets have returned.”

If Apple were to have to grant all of these requests, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp could enable Meta to read on a user's device all of their messages and emails, see every phone call they make or receive, track every app that they use, scan all of their photos, look at their files and calendar events, log all of their passwords, and more.

For those old enough to remember; once upon a time Facebook could essentially see everything on an iPhone. Over the years Apple introduced things such as app sandboxing that reduced FB’s ability to spy on users. Each time one of these changes were made FB cried foul that it was going to harm their business. And, technically, yes it would by increasing user privacy.

God knows they’d love to have the level of access they had a decade ago especially with the scale of the user base they have between all of Meta’s apps.

“Just don’t look up!”

Guilty as charged.

Will be interesting to see which way this goes. Australian banks wanted direct access to NFC to essentially lock customers into their app ecosystem and remove Apple’s cut to increase profits. Judging by how they approached it I have no faith in this leading to an improvement in customer service.

Imagine a game similar to Alien Isolation where the creature is a Thing which a small LLM AI generates, would be pretty cool. The usual hallucinations that AI suffer would just suit The Thing creature aesthetic and give a huge amount of variety to in-game monsters.

Mixed with a proper horror theme and some fleshed out “are they a Thing” game mechanics and it’d at least make a super interesting game.

Something worth mentioning, at least according to the site you linked, $/Mwh SA $99.44 & QLD $214.46 at the time I’m writing this. So SA’s power is also generated at half the cost (if I’m understanding it correctly).

I believe it was “!su evas ,su pleh ,namdam a si poolF“

Steam singlehandedly stopped piracy overnight for me.

This is similar to what Netflix did to their part of the industry for a time. Everyone I knew who pirated just got a Netflix subscription. Fast forward to now and the movie industry is manning the cannons to try and take on the pirates instead of realising it was content fracturing and profiteering that brought the pirates back.

Grrmany