The latest moves from google are the damning smoking gun evidence that anti monopoly court ever needs. "Do this or else". Recaptcha, gmail, google suite, android, chrome, colab and even google play must be viable businesses on their own, separate from google ads machine. Gmail must start competing for users with other email providers. And, yes, recaptcha must pay its infrastructure cost in full only from recaptcha revenue. This is the good way to level playing field, silence all the critics and let air into the room.
>Dolphin held a pleasant surprise: it could detect my iPhone when it was plugged in. This made it a snap to transfer files to and from my phone as the file manager granted full file access to the iPhone
If file search indexes and such will be replaced by neural networks, this will be small but measurable improvement in battery life, speed and memory usage.
1) 24/7 available super-competent personal assistant has tremendous value for any person who does something interesting or difficult and values personal time
2) llm-provided tax/legal advice alone was worth hundreds of euros for me
3) there is no easy way to capture all this value. I still think edge intelligence/autonomy has a way to pay for the rest of the party, because those will be physical things. People eagerly part with money for things. Governments and enterprises will maybe pay for cloud services, if the price will be right
I am surprised nobody mentioned tank (https://github.com/yandex/yandex-tank) yet. I found it highly configurable, relatively easy to use. For those who is interested in good perfomance and features, it might be a good choice.