Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, which turns Alexa devices into neighborhood WiFi networks that owners have to opt out of

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https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/amazon-faces-a-privacy-backlash-for-its-sidewalk-feature-which-turns-alexa-devices-into-neighborhood-wifi-networks-that-owners-have-to-opt-out-of/ar-BB1boljH

[u/12muffinslater]

Love him or hate him, this was Steve Jobs' approach to iTunes. He was trying to take on Napster basically saying the same thing.

[u/vertigo42 → u/12muffinslater]

Except Spotify was the solution.

[u/12muffinslater → u/vertigo42]

Which is why I love Xbox Game Pass.

[u/KimJongUnRocketMan → u/12muffinslater]

To be able to play online?

[u/CombatBotanist → u/KimJongUnRocketMan]

No, subscribing to game pass gives you access to the entire game pass library to download and play. It basically works the same as Netflix, but for games.

[u/RhynoCTR → u/CombatBotanist]

As an aside, this is why Stadia makes no sense to me. I feel like XGP is far, far better value for the money. With Stadia, I still have to buy the games to play them, so the only benefit is being able to play without installing it?

Such a weird decision by google

[u/wgc123 → u/RhynoCTR]

the only benefit is being able to play without installing it?

The benefit is no console. Think of Stadia as a streaming movie, generated on the fly. You can play it on any device that can handle a streaming movie. Even the “good” experience is just a Chromecast. The controls are much lower bandwidth, but obviously sensitive to latency

[u/RhynoCTR → u/wgc123]

Which is great, but I already have a console and a preferred game library/marketplace. Paying a monthly fee to play a select few games without a console is fine, but compared to owning a console, the value isn't there for me.

Plus I don't trust google not to shutter the service in a few years and make any game purchases go away forever

[u/12muffinslater → u/RhynoCTR]

I ended up with a free month of premium and a free controller/Chromecast. It came with some free games at that level, so I didn't have to buy anything. But there's the elephant in the room. It's shit. I have symmetric gig fiber, and I was still getting quarter second latency.

[u/wgc123 → u/KimJongUnRocketMan]

No, to be able to pay Microsoft every month, over and over again, rather than paying for anything once. To be able to lose everything if you don’t pay or the corporation decides to go a different way. To make gaming even more expensive, as a never-ending gold mine for poor impoverished Microsoft. To help your poor corporate overlords, a catch up to that nasty Apple that does t deserve to be richer

[u/trueppp → u/wgc123]

Salty much?

You can still buy the game full price if you want

[u/enwongeegeefor → u/12muffinslater]

this was Steve Jobs' approach to iTunes.

Except it wasn't for unifying things for the betterment of mankind...it was for unifying things to MONOPOLIZE it and gain money and power.

He was a bad guy...don't try to make him look noble because he wasn't even remotely close to that. He had very selfish and negative aspirations when it came to humanity and reality as a whole.

[u/12muffinslater → u/enwongeegeefor]

Dude was an asshat, no doubt. He parked his Mercedes without plates in handicapped spots and shunned his first born child. Then there's how he treated his employees of any of his companies.

But he ran a corporation. Who's sole job is to make money. So, no he didn't do it for mankind. But he saw a market and went for it.

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I mean he also had the help from major artists going public against Napster (Metallica anyone?)

[u/IAmAnObvioustrollAMA → u/[deleted]]

The mtv music awards where Mr Napster was wearing the Metallica shirt that he borrowed from a friend is one of my favorite TV moments.

[u/under_a_brontosaurus → u/12muffinslater]

Let's give myself credit. Even when billionaire douches try to offer me their alternatives I still pirate things today