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FYI to the website designer: on desktop, this website does not have a scrollbar. In addition to that being an accessibility issue, I closed the website after I got tired of paging and/or using the scroll wheel.
> Dot remembers Mei’s interest in singing and proactively sends her suggestions for music clubs at school. Imagine having so little agency and motivation within your own existence on this earth that you need an app to remind of what you once found life—affirming.
That's not what that says though, it's not reminding them of loving singing, it's finding clubs. It's a proactive search. It'd be like a friend saying "oh hey I know you like singing, I spotted these clubs you might like".
In a year, Dot app is discontinued and you lose everything.
If new technology and products don’t have a chance for optimism on HN, where do they?
“Cool! Now this will be with me wherever I go.”
So the next question is obviously:
"Will it? Forever? What are you doing to ensure that?"
Because most consumer startups fail. The ones that get bought out usually end up sunset or neglected. Even the ones that IPO often alienate users by chasing quarterly earnings (evernote/dropbox/pinterest).
This is the most likely-to-be-Sherlocked[1] thing I've seen in a while. And when Apple does it, the processing will be done on-device. [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked
This is the most likely-to-be-Sherlocked[1] thing I've seen in a while. And when Apple does it, the processing will be done on-device. [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked
This is the kind of thing where adoption and user mass matters a great deal. If thois is successful and apple are too slow to roll out something like this, don't expect a lot of users to "just switch" out of what they've invested a great deal of personal data and routine into. It'd have to be something even deeper, like OS level integration.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not what that says though, it's not reminding them of loving singing, it's finding clubs. It's a proactive search. It'd be like a friend saying "oh hey I know you like singing, I spotted these clubs you might like".
These clubs = those who paid the most for ads
“Eventually, Mei decides she’s had enough of Dot interfering in every aspect of her life, uninstalls Dot, and goes about her business as usual, determined to interact with reality in a more wholehearted way.”
"A year later, Mei is notified that new.computer was hacked and all of Mei's very personal data has been dumped on pastebin."
Their privacy policy lists OpenAI as one of their partners for data processing, which indicates that this is happening not on your device, and data is also shared with third parties. For me this is the main counterargument against apps like these. I want to feel free to post any information into this without thinking about who may read or use it. Local is the only way to go for software like this in my opinion.
Yeah reading this web page I just keep thinking “Mei has trusted a cloud based service to be her personal confidant for all aspects of her life including text and documents. This will end poorly for Mei.”
I immediately recognized this as either inspired from or actually from the same creators of the mercuryos concept https://www.mercuryos.com/ . Turns out it's the latter. I love the Mercury OS concept and think it's design both elegantly and sort of subversively packs a myriad of potentially breakthrough ideas. I have been stewing with ideas around the same vision for years. The idea of a new type of UI where the UI s…
for posterity, why did mercuryOS fail?