This biased post pollutes HN.
if the author truly buy-in the idea of new cold war, then holywood, youtube, and facebook are weapons too. the author even try to use blog platform and public forum like HN as weapon as well.
both macOS and ChromeOS are bind to the device in most case. So this conclusion means that Chromebook device had already sold more than the whole macOS device volume?
The key for goolge's monopoly is not only its index algorithm capability, but also the brand, the chrome browser, the android and all other google product integration.
airdrop is actually like a security hole when Apple set "open to everyone" by default.
There are already quite some cases using it to send * photos as sex harassment.
Apple should set default to "only contacts".
criticism on SQL does not make it meaningful for a new database. I mean, an ORM with its own query language, a new SQL dialect, some language that compile to standard and optimized SQL are all good ideas.
An quick stop for the possbile privacy disaster for Apple is to stop group facetime call at once but not wait for later this week for bug fix.
Could image that quite some one might already try to peek for privacy using this.
I think for most cases, "on the edge" means some devices on the sites of those IOT sensors/small collection machine installed. In compare to "on the cloud" which means on the server hosted by Amazon/Azure etc.
The genereal idea is to let the children themselves want something with passion and they will pay attention. (not only to child in fact).
However, one of the simple way to do that is NOT autonomy as the article suggest, but to make that thing sparse, precious and difficult to get. The children does not have the right to be well educated, will pay more attention comparing to those who have plenty already.
in summary:
1. start a company (that might be the easiest one in his expereince!)
2. Find a VC
3. Find good mentor to enter the group of "rich people".
If privacy is really a concern, one should live like Jack Reacher, even not use credit card.
Current situation is that, we want to happy share and attract attention on facebook. If it did something wrong, let the court sues it.