I understand that even Estonia requires a manual process, with two witnesses at site to a property transaction. Then the question becomes how you digitize this on the blockchain?
Don't be ridiculous, Google is a platform company. Any service they create contributes to the same platform. Hence, if search is a monopoly so is the rest of the services.
Exactly, this is platform economics 101. If you missed this then read:
Parker, G. G., Van Alstyne, M. W., & Choudary, S. P. (2016). Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You.
So many people think they are experts on blockchain tech nowadays after reading a few ICO whitepapers. The point of public chains is to automate tasks, whatever that task may be. Stop thinking of blockchains as this limited thing we see in the ICOs today and learn to see it as decentralized autonomous organisations. These organisations are focused on transactions and can be implemented as any market.
The store is their way to control their ecosystem, has nothing to do with the OS. This effort is a power-play against decentralized apps that threaten the centralized platform model.
I wish they stopped worrying about Google's and Facebook's possibility to profit of my data. Although I like f-fox, we do need a new alternative that support our privacy rights.
The next thing you should look at is who they send your personal data to and what data they send. There was rumors a year ago that they sent personal data to known advertiser IPs.
I'd like to see a sentiment for each article as well. If you add that, then add a green/red indicator on the price chart as well for when the news came out.
He makes a loaded assumption that I don't agree with,
"One of the key points of IoT is that it produces extremely large quantities of data which have very little value outside of the real-time element."
Still Streamer integrates the analytics processing part and that makes the system more complete as a platform. You most certainly need the real time part for IoT, but streamer can also be used for processing data-at-rest, e.g. forensic data.
They use a term "privatized records" that is not directly recognized by the GDPR. If this is equivalent to data anonymization or pseudonymization is a mathematical proof, that I'm not familiar with. Still kudos to Apple for doing "something", then it remains to be seen how well it stands the test of time.