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Don't give couch manufacturers any ideas! Couches need telemetry too.
During the peak of frothy VC investments, our hypothetical couch startup will have the money to hire ML and AI experts. 1) Sell the couch at a loss. 2) Acquire customer voice data. 3) Run it through ML/AI 4) ???? 5) Pivot the company.
Buying a windows laptop these days seems like putting your hand in an Alligator Gar filled bog (also see the other post about the Synaptics driver) And restoring from the OEM copy is no guarantee it will be clear of all the preinstalled crap
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During the peak of frothy VC investments, our hypothetical couch startup will have the money to hire ML and AI experts. 1) Sell the couch at a loss. 2) Acquire customer voice data. 3) Run it through ML/AI 4) ???? 5) Pivot the company.
You could have some inflatable cushions that can only be controlled by the cloud.
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Coming soon: Amazon Echo Sit
"We are revolutionizing home-based, ergonomic solutions. Relaxtion-as-a-service" Translation "We're selling an overpriced couch. The couch is manufactured by someone else. The microphone gives us your data. We're working on selling that to as many other people as we can."
Agree with the other commenters here that requiring consent and asking for new hardware to be audited isn't really anywhere near enough of a punishment. I've read through the full settlement here: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/1523134_len... As far as I can tell they've just been ordered to do things they should've been doing already (security testing, asking for consent). Is anyone familiar enough…
Personally, they've lost my business. I used and loved Thinkpads for many years, but I no longer use them and now recommend against their purchase. Lenovo has a huge trust gap to repair.
What OS do you run and what machine would you suggest for it instead?
Buying a windows laptop these days seems like putting your hand in an Alligator Gar filled bog (also see the other post about the Synaptics driver) And restoring from the OEM copy is no guarantee it will be clear of all the preinstalled crap
I love, love love my Windows desktop (home built BEAST for gaming) but anytime I'm doing work, I have my Macbook at my palms. Unless Apple continues to tank the Macbook (I currently have the Pro 2014 model) I'll never buy a Windows laptop again.
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You could have some inflatable cushions that can only be controlled by the cloud.
It'll recognize your voice and automatically port your cushion preferences to other people's SmartCouches.
Personally, they've lost my business. I used and loved Thinkpads for many years, but I no longer use them and now recommend against their purchase. Lenovo has a huge trust gap to repair.
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It's really crazy, isn't it??? The company that makes/sells me a couch doesn't currently install a microphone in the couch, so that they can analyze my conversations and sell my data to advertisers. Should they start trying? All of these tech companies are getting away with it!
There's no need. The device in front of your couch already does that.
Apple + Samsung have the phone market, but that didn't stop MSFT and AMZN from trying XD