That depends on management, however it definitely could benefit the company.

I think the biggest issue is that a bunch of people are, probably unexpectedly, out of a job.

That’s a bingo…

But depending on cost, in my hopeful optimistic universe, that could mean bringing back replaceable batteries.

If/when this happens it will just lead to a rise in aftermarket products to disable the feature.

Hell, since they will probably use AI to parse the audio you can probably use it to fuck with your friends. Like when people would put out hyper-specific FB ads but via cars.

If they don’t call it Chick-fa-licks I’ll be disappointed. I mean as a whole I find the company upsetting already, but I will add disappointment to that.

What’s going on with that guy?

It’s called working in IT. Gotta make sure those servers are up.

I don’t know what that is, but it sounds like something to check out. Thanks for the heads up.

Yeah, I guess my comment did come off like that. Oh well, live and learn.

Oh I get that, I’d do the same in his position. I just literally meant I found it amusing.

It’s always a little amusing when grandiose anti-Google claims are made on a platform owned by Google.

Never wanted them, pretty sure I’d have a mental breakdown if I tried to raise one

I will say this as often as I can, getting the ol snip snip was the best decision I’ve ever made.

Great. now the search engine will tell me “I am not designed to provide that information” when I don’t use the specific, constantly changing magic words it wants.

This also reminds me that I’m still annoyed my phone options are more or less limited Android and iPhone.

I’m not aware of anything. Why are you looking, maybe there is something similar out there.

Matrix is great, if only I could convince my friends to use it.