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- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 6 days ago:
The have a paid sdk for businesses, not for endusers, Magic Earth is just a byproduct.
Magic Earth is free for all our end-users but we also have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners. For instance Selectric.de (a supplier for navigation solutions for ambulances and fire trucks), Smarter AI (developing ADAS systems) or Absolute Cycling (using the platform on bicycles). For more info on the SDK, you can check magiclane.com.
They also collect anonimized traffic data from users:
We send position data to our traffic provider to generate real-time traffic information. The data is anonymized on the phone, using a changing key (so it’s not linked to you), and it is deleted after 5 minutes.
Both info is from their faq: www.magicearth.com/faq-en/
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 6 days ago:
Reasoning from their FAQ:
Will Magic Earth be Open Source?
No; since it is also used commercially (we have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners), we cannot make the code public.
- Comment on Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965 3 weeks ago:
It’s in the article, they show examples
- Comment on It is time to ban email. 3 weeks ago:
This is stupid. Author wants to ban a platform, because a lot of tools for it are not good, and people doesn’t want to learn. First can be solved by using and writing better email clients. For the second, you can never solve HR problems with IT solutions.
I think everyone reading this post has accidentally messed up when sending an email, right?
I don’t remember any of that, but I remember I called and messaged the wrong “John Smith” in my phonebook and in an instant messenger, because I have similarly named contacts. The platform doesn’t matter, if you are stupid enough you can mess it up anywhere.
The reasoning, that for internal communication there are far better tools is right, but the power of email is that I can send it to anyone.
- Comment on Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech 2 months ago:
But why? I loved this logo, it’s very clever:
Or most people didn’t get the meaning of
://?Now, as I typed this I understand… Most people rarely type
https://any more. Actually I use this symbol most frequently connecting to file shares assmb://orsftp://. - Comment on Huawei’s Mate 70 smartphones will run its new Android-free OS 2 months ago:
It’s for chinese internal market only. Afaik play store is already blocked in china, so they won’t notice the lack of apps, as app selection is already limited for them. I read somewhere, that chinese have some “everything app” where they can do every online payment and services, etc, and they just had to port that few apps to this new os to become a viable alternative there.
I guess on the few international markets where you can still buy huawei phones, they will have an android based version.
- Comment on Google Chrome will let you send money to your favourite website 6 months ago:
In other words: Google selected a non standard tag again. It’s a W3C draft, but not a standard yet: webmonetization.org/specification/
Google is not following standards, and than W3C has no other way just accept the standard, as it’s already implemented by the majority of browsers… Whose decision is which standard to accept? Google or W3C? Will Google remove the tag if the W3C selects a different tag as standard? Or the internet is just another Alphabet Inc product line?
