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Post by joseda-hg »

nine_k wrote: post #138
PebblesRox wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already bad enough that my toddler can order photo canvases of a picture of himself getting ketchup out of the fridge via the Google Photos app. (He even chose expedited shipping . . . to our old address!) Fortunately we got a refund from customer service the first time. The second time, I saw the email soon enough to cancel within the 2 hour deadline. (This was after removing all our payment info from the phone…

Stop. Do you mean that the fridge has Google Photos app running? Or do you mean that your phone is not locked when given to the enterprising toddler in question?

I recently came across a review of a Samsung Smart fridge made by a non tech influencer, some of the things that grabbed my attention were:

- The fridge had both front and back cameras

- It had a microphone

- It could play music, which maybe was important if you considered it for a glorified kitchen tablet

- It could install regular android apps

- It could sync photos and notes

- It was compatible with the Uber app, so I have to assume you could actually have payment info in there

I have never bought a nice fridge and I will go out of my way to avoid pointless smart, so it really came as a surprise to me, but the situation seems posible and probably will happen to someone at some point

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Post by _yb2s »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #193
_yb2s wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The next version: When you touch an item in a photo you automatically buy it. There is supposedly a way to see that this is happening and cancel it, but that part of the interface isn't intuitive and attempts to cancel more often result in additional purchases. This cannot be turned off, and the new phone can't be used in the first place until you set up credit card billing. It also seems to trigger "automatically" a…

Amazon was trying to get here with Dash buttons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Dash

Just what I need in my house as a toddler dad... a button that costs $ each time it is pressed.

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Post by microtherion »

kristopolous wrote: post #151
PebblesRox wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already bad enough that my toddler can order photo canvases of a picture of himself getting ketchup out of the fridge via the Google Photos app. (He even chose expedited shipping . . . to our old address!) Fortunately we got a refund from customer service the first time. The second time, I saw the email soon enough to cancel within the 2 hour deadline. (This was after removing all our payment info from the phone…

I'm a big believer that toddlers are a large contribution to behavior analytics and dictate modern design by analytics. They're the ones that will click on ads and "browse" a site. They interact in a much richer way than I do. I've often heard that a sites most "active" users seem to be women in their mid 30s. That's because those stats include the woman and the toddlers she hands the phones to. I've been frequently…

There may be a lot of truth to that, but I've absolutely seen women in that age group play games on their phones, e.g. Bejeweled, or, famously, Tetris at world record breaking skill levels: https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007...

I would not know about unboxing videos, but there are several cable channels that seem to show nothing but hours and hours of close ups of hands fondling more or less tasteful necklaces, and I'm pretty sure those do not cater to toddlers.

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Post by kristopolous »

microtherion wrote: post #213
kristopolous wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a big believer that toddlers are a large contribution to behavior analytics and dictate modern design by analytics. They're the ones that will click on ads and "browse" a site. They interact in a much richer way than I do. I've often heard that a sites most "active" users seem to be women in their mid 30s. That's because those stats include the woman and the toddlers she hands the phones to. I've been frequently…

There may be a lot of truth to that, but I've absolutely seen women in that age group play games on their phones, e.g. Bejeweled, or, famously, Tetris at world record breaking skill levels: https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007... I would not know about unboxing videos, but there are several cable channels that seem to show nothing but hours and hours of close ups of hands fondling more or less…

There's certainly women who play video games of all ages! Absolutely! That demographic bucket gets overrepresented and thus misrepresented as an artefact of how the data is collected because small children can't be easily extricated from the dataset

I'm sure there's many top female gamers. No question. (I don't play video games so excuse me ignorance on the details)

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Post by syngrog66 »

somewhat on topic nd off: gesture interfaces on mobile need to die by fire

* 80% of the time they get triggered by accident, causing some loss of modal state or user data

* other 80% of time they DONT trigger when you DO want, because your gesture wasnt EXACTLY perfect or timed right

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Post by mcint »

I wish cookies or unique URLs for level saving was implemented. I restarted multiple times because Firefox and Safari had phantom sticky activations I couldn't override. That final 3 finger twitter was a nice challenge. (I suppose a "reset detected inputs" button would do too).

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Post by xnx »

Phelinofist wrote: post #73

This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI finds out what is shown in the picture and where to buy it. Goes without saying that I immediately disabled this. /shrug

I like Android, but I would never ever recommend anyone buy anything but Google Pixel phones because of nonsense like this.

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Post by chiggsy »

kristopolous wrote: post #151
PebblesRox wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already bad enough that my toddler can order photo canvases of a picture of himself getting ketchup out of the fridge via the Google Photos app. (He even chose expedited shipping . . . to our old address!) Fortunately we got a refund from customer service the first time. The second time, I saw the email soon enough to cancel within the 2 hour deadline. (This was after removing all our payment info from the phone…

I'm a big believer that toddlers are a large contribution to behavior analytics and dictate modern design by analytics. They're the ones that will click on ads and "browse" a site. They interact in a much richer way than I do. I've often heard that a sites most "active" users seem to be women in their mid 30s. That's because those stats include the woman and the toddlers she hands the phones to. I've been frequently…

>I've often heard that a sites most "active" users seem to be women in their mid 30s. That's because those stats include the woman and the toddlers she hands the phones to.

Christ, man, I can literally see it, seen it tons of times, and yet ... just wow.

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Post by utucuro »

joseda-hg wrote: post #211
nine_k wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop. Do you mean that the fridge has Google Photos app running? Or do you mean that your phone is not locked when given to the enterprising toddler in question?

I recently came across a review of a Samsung Smart fridge made by a non tech influencer, some of the things that grabbed my attention were: - The fridge had both front and back cameras - It had a microphone - It could play music, which maybe was important if you considered it for a glorified kitchen tablet - It could install regular android apps - It could sync photos and notes - It was compatible with the Uber app,…

The listed features are interesting, probably useful for a fridge IF by back camera, a camera that can show me the inside of the fridge is meant - I'd love being able to access that during shopping trips.

The rest are all potentially useful as well, but more important than any of these are security and longevity - a flagship phone from Samsung gets something like 5 years of updates if I recall right, and those updates are prioritized according to how premium the phone is - how far down the list are fridges? I would definitely want my fridge to last longer than 5 years and NOT be a security risk in my network.

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