I can only speculate of course, but I'd suspect a far simpler reason, driving subscriptions. Even limited use for video editing can fill up the free 5GB tier very quickly and if iClouds rather aggressive nudges to upgrade and their success amongst the people around me are anything to go by, there is a lot of potential in getting people to subscribe for a few bucks.
The scenario I envision is basically, a user just edits a few 4k files together and starts approaching the 5GB limit. Because OneDrive is also by default used for other things such as documents and even the desktop nowadays, they soon thereafter hit the 5GB limit and start being inundated with offers to upgrade to the 100GB tier. "Just 1,99 per month, nothing major, barely felt", at least that's the pitch. Maybe they acquiesce, maybe they ignore it. That's the play I'd wager. And if enough people resist, maybe in an upcoming update a full OneDrive could lead to (artificially) degraded functionality. Not in the sense of local storage being impossible, just slightly less convenient over direct OneDrive. Say what you want about the iCloud nagging (I have and will continue complaining about that as well), at least it isn't required to have free iCloud storage to locally edit ones videos with iMovie.
In any case, forcing OneDrive for a video editor (arguably one of the highest storage requirement programs most people will ever use at the moment) is anti-consumer and showcases how little any commitment [0] by them actually means. Took less than a week, which is honestly longer than I'd have suspected...
I've got to say that it does seem like the approach to the gaming sessions appears poor. Any given activity like board gaming can be done purely transactionally or not. It's up to the people around the table to chat and discover things about each other.
I'm married to someone I went to board game meetups with before we dated. I'm very good friends with several people from that group now. We play board games periodically still despite the group no longer being active, and our reasons to meet up are now more about socialising than board games. Board games was a brilliant icebreaker, but it took effort from everyone involved.
Perhaps board games are not the best socialisation method, but I'd argue against that too. It's a very good way to get like-minded people in a room, sitting down, and collaborating.
However, "I know many people who say they’ve tried a couple of board games like Catan and really enjoyed it, and are surprised to hear that I think it is a bad game." is spot on and the author cannot be faulted for that opinion. I'd rather play Russian Roulette than Catan.
I gave up on Spotify as I started to listen to more podcasts which had their own ads inside them let alone Spotify's. Now I'm paying for Youtube (never thought I'd be doing that) and using the new(ish) jump ahead feature to skip in-video ad segments including in video podcasts. Problem largely solved?
This is a long long log fuelled by your very obtuse way of talking to Gemini. It's matching your tone, and feeding your loaded questions with loaded answers to fit your narrative.
I don't see any threats, I likely missed them in my scan down the sections, but it does just seem like it tried to meet you in the middle and its output flew over your head as it miscalculated the bro-speak conspiracy theory level you were at.
"honestly i know where the next "revolution" should be happening. those who get it, get it.
let those who dont waste their money
bye"
Hilarious way to speak to Gemini. It's going to spew that right back at you.
I cannot wait for Oatly's next marketing campaign that lampoons this decision.
This does nothing to stop the rise of dairy alternatives, nor should it. Nobody is going to stop asking for oat/soy/nut milk when putting in their drink order, just because corporations can't use the term. It's common parlance now, and using 'milk' to refer to a non-dairy liquid has been done for hundreds of years at this point.
Now that multi bilion dollar international corporations rely on retaining their brand image in a market sector, those sectors now have to be policed to protect said brands and corporations. Its nothing to do with what has been called what for hundreds of years, its nothing to do with what people call it when they order a latte at Starbucks. Its everything to do with protecting profits in a defined food category.
I don’t have an EV and will not purchase one anytime soon. I would be interested in purchasing an extended range hybrid. I’ve had this discussion with many of my friends and most are not ready to purchase an EV but like myself are interested in a plug-in hybrid. A 100 range allow for all my local driving to be electric and I could still do my long range driving without adding the additional time for charging. I do drives of 9 - 13 hours at least 8-10 times a year and some years more often. Those drives are already long enough. I don’t want to add the additional time charging takes. Over that long of a drive the time adds up.
I think the real problem is that the car industry is refusing to make affordable vehicles and a big part of that is size. Americans might want huge vehicles but they can't all afford them. Chinese manufacturers, alone, are pursuing the affordable EV market, the same way that Chinese manufacturers, alone, are pursing the affordable drone market.
It's not the size of the car per se, but the vast amount of technology and features crammed into the car that drives up the cost. An old VW bus could fit a lot of people, but was still produced cheaply compared to production costs today. That old bus had no self-driving, no power windows, no lane assist, no anti-lock brakes, no automatic transmission, no infotainement center, no air suspension, no automatic seat adjustments or backup camera, no soundproofing, no heads up display, no A/C, it didn't beep when something was in your blind spots, it had no crumple zones or other safety features. I'm not even sure if it had a catalytic converter. Just think of the huge number of electrical computer modules and the hundreds of miles of wiring, the millions of lines of software code. And those computers need to work in the Arizona heat when you park your car in the sun, even though you might fry a consumer grade laptop if you left it in the same car.
That's why smaller cars aren't that much cheaper. They are still crammed with all these features.
The BLS measures inflation which requires making the much maligned hedonic adjustments, which is basically saying things like "the new widget holds twice as much memory" or "this car also has an airbag". For automobiles, they look at production costs, and when you take production costs into account, cars aren't that much more expensive in real terms today. We just cram so many features into them now.
What do you mean? America has 2 offerings from Chevy, and now the Slate truck as well. Japan has the Nissan Leaf. Korea and Germany produce a few cheap EVs too. None of these vehicles are large and all of them are focused on being cheap for the mass market. The PRC's offerings rely on favorable currency positioning and extremely apathetic labor conditions (leading to better cost-efficiency). It's not an industrialist's miracle.
Not all the advantages though, hybrids need oil changes, transmission fluid changes, water pump, spark plugs, timing belts, etc. all the maintenance burden of an ICE that EVs do not carry.
I’d rather have an ev with a diesel generator in the pickup bed as my “range extender” than a vehicle with constant maintenance needs.
I can dream of hooking up a generator on a trailer…
I also dream of getting a used Nissan Leaf because most of my trips are to and from town 20 minutes away and we already had gas cars that can take longer trips. If my son wasn’t bringing home old cars I might be able to make the space for it but right now I can’t.
Article gave me a chuckle, been in this exact situation multiple times.
However, it's not GTM's fault, at all. GTM gives marketers a very powerful suite of tools that they normally have to rely on devs for. In fact it gives them site-breaking power.
But it's not GTM's fault a marketer can't track a button click in the scenarios. The marketer just needs to push the responsibility back to the dev who made the crummy site. GTM can't help if a site is built in an opaque manner. GTM can't help if a marketer can't learn to use it competently either.
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