The wealthy have more time to shop around and more money to choose another option so companies think they need to provide extra incentives to get them which means better treatment and prices and etcetera.
The poor? Ehh gouge for all they are worth and hope they die so you don’t have to hear them complain.
Which is insane cause that means the poor are the profit margins allowing for the deals of the wealthy.
I mean there were no instructions up front because literally Google is refusing to give them, basically.
No more choice just the company force feeding the user and saying it’s good for them.
Nowhere in the email or any of the Support pages did Google say how to remove all Gemini integrations from my phone.
I then emailed Google PR and… I asked if someone could provide actionable guidance for my readers who want to ensure Gemini integrations are completely disabled. Instead of answering the question, the person responding to my email wrote, in part: “This update is good for users: they can now use Gemini to complete daily tasks on their mobile devices like send messages, initiate phone calls, and set timers while Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. With Gemini Apps Activity turned off, their Gemini chats are not being reviewed or used to improve our AI models.”
Literally that reads like you can’t turn it off and they just scrape less of your data on a technicality.
3 months short for me but that’s because it took me that long to figure out how Lemmy worked.
They used to lower the price of Xboxes/?Xbeexes? lower than actual profit margins because they could get more in game sales.
I think the finances are no longer there though to do that but I think it would inspire people to get the game pass more if they did.
I’m so hoping Microsoft eats some of the cost of this and makes it a reasonable price. Think of the awesomeness of $600-700 handheld console that can be much more easily modded than the switch 2.
FM radio when you wanted it, big color screen that you could watch actual videos on at a solid playback that you could do video out to a TV with. WiFi song sharing. Great playback and no fingerprints in my semitransparent case that glows.
Zune was amazing.
None I think. I paid for all my streaming services that had these movies and shows and then have sourced everything else through originals or sources that were rentable.
This is that whole issue with defining ownership with digital media. Movies were called the greatest financial invention of America because they only had to make a product once and could sell it forever.
With digital media and technology increases we now have a much easier time owning our own copies.
This is likely literally what NFTs hoped to fix to make set revenue of of each digital file and also why they failed because they are so easy to copy anyways.
So, none, or an infinite amount, depending on if you ask me or a business major.
I do I just didn’t understand how separated the Canadian dollar had gotten until seeing that price.
Holy mother of…
LOL I was so excited but then realized maybe it’s bad that I’m most excited for yet another racing game when that’s also supposed to be the launch title.
They announced it at the Xbox showcase which was basically a direct.
I would be a little shocked if they didn’t actually believe they could make this timeline since it’s with the previous 4 years. Just being grumpy about how loose they have been with this title and even still the release date.
Agreed.
But kinda need exclusives worth dropping that amount of cash for.
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Yeah I am expecting the upgrades to be $30. I can’t imagine dropping $800 for 2 games and games I played fine in 720p
Remember when they said it would be out within 12 months back in 2022?
Only 39 months later we are getting that timeline again.
I’m so pissed.
$450 for the base console
This is $700-$800 just to play a couple of games.
Every other game showed basically was not exclusive. But they didn’t even show me a reason to get the hardware in all that. No updated eShop or drawing and productivity apps like the DS. No browser or Bluetooth confirmed. In fact they confirmed that the voice chat only works with the console mic.
Give me back a Nintendo that gives a crap and doesn’t just want money trying to make kinect 2.
Nah just get a steamdeck or clone from the other manufacturers at this price point. You will at least actually get a browser then and a better game shop.
Oh it’s $450 for the base console and $500 for the bundle so they weren’t far off and then everything is proprietary from storage to their new controllers and webcam for some reason.
Nope just a very similar looking bravely default.
That was a mess.
Mostly games that aren’t theirs, paid upgrades for all 5 games they are using as exclusives from the switch 1 library. A proprietary micro SD card that doesn’t even exist past 256GB right now.
But hey now we can have a zoom call from the switch using a microphone that is across the room and from the asterisk when they showed it doesn’t work with headphones at all.
I have loved Nintendo. I certainly don’t right now.
If only any of the crypto bros actually wanted it to be a functional payment and economic system instead of a just “line goes up to further enrich myself” mlm scheme.
It cant be both.