Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone

Perhaps the decline of Apple finally starts. And a startup will take their place eventually.

Sadly it's not the 80s anymore. A startup building their own hardware without VCs getting involved is basically impossible. Of course, I'm not talking about taking something like a Raspberry Pi off the shelf and making something with that. Wozniak was building something from scratch that could be sold as an actual product - no chance of that now.

if only Microsoft was not trying to sneak ads everywhere, this could be a moment for MS Phone

There's Framework and Librem laptops, I'd rather buy those than a Mac (I didn't downvote)

It could possibly happen in robotics or home automation. SparkFun could get there, or Adafruit.

VCs aren’t that interested in hardware. Nobody bets on a crippled horse. The same with hardware startup. Why invest in something with tons of embedded software, connectivity software and all the problems with moving physical objects when one could invest just in software venture that has at least 10x higher chance to succeed?

Robotics - super expensive just to start. Think about 3 developers for mechanical, electrical and software parts plus expensive hardware. Timeframe at least 2 years. So $1M just for shy start.

Home automation topic goes for decades. However I don’t see wide adoption anywhere. Most tech savvy buddy is playing often with new products and stated, that the best thing is Philips Hue lights in home automation area. Other things barely work.

I am so confused when people say this. Microsoft Windows Professional allows you to configure any such things. I have almost all telemetry off, all permissions off, all notifications off, all ads off. I don't see this ad riddled Windows that people speak about.

I am not surprised when I hear 'normies' complain about this, because they mostly run OEM Windows Home which the vendors of their devices decided is OK, but on a forum such as this one, I am surprised to hear these kind of complaints.

* Everything is configurable from the Privacy Settings with an on / off toggle

* Whenever a new invasive option gets pushed with an update, there's an update screen which allows you to disable it and is disabled by default, so by skipping, you don't enable it

At least this is how I perceive my machine.

I wanted to buy a framework, but they don't accept crypto payments. So I bought apple gift cards with Bitcoin and bought a MacBook pro instead.

Hey Cortana, define confirmation bias. You say you have to disable ads manually and then go on saying "I don't see this ad riddled Windows". Are you being serious?

Good for you for buying Windows Pro, what about everybody and their grandma else stuck on Home? I guess they don't count. Fucking normies.

Interesting. Did you not have to disclose a similar amount of personal information to buy the Mac?

Have you considered buying used? This can be better for the environment and privacy.

> Hey Cortana, define confirmation bias. You say you have to disable ads manually and then go on saying "I don't see this ad riddled Windows". Are you being serious?

Please re-read my argument. I expect more from this community.

> Good for you for buying Windows Pro, what about everybody and their grandma else stuck on Home? I guess they don't count. Fucking normies.

Please re-read my argument. I expect more from this community.