Thanks, Google · 12:07am Aug 1st, 2017
The latest updates that you have made to your phone software make it really less user-friendly. Sort of like the constant YouTube updates which make it harder and harder to use. My own new phone has no headphone jack. I guess 2017 means that you’re a caveman if you like the older, corded headphones still. Bluetooth doesn’t sound as good and is a pain in the ass to hook up? Hah, Google says.
Oh, but they beat Go, you say. Well, yes and no. Part of Go or Chess is a battle between two human minds. You can read the opponent’s facial expression and see perhaps what he will do next. I guess when your opponent has a perfect computer poker face, you’re at a disadvantage. Google needs to rethink Go. Go does not put the Go in Google. Google does put the “artificial” in Artificial Intelligence. Not a very smart company if you ask me.
If these guys are in charge of bringing us the singularity, we don’t need to worry about seeing it for a long, long time.
I have a pair of Senso Bluetooth headphones, and mine are awesome. You should be able to get them on Amazon for at most $40 dollars, they don't tangle at all, the sound quality is great, and they have amazing battery life.
Do these companies ever think that some of us might prefer the reliability of wires? Additionally, the more wireless devices there are the less of the spectrum is available for each one; eventually this will result in the spectrum being saturated and force either reducing bandwidth or signal quality. Strategies can be set out to mitigate this but the problem is essentially insurmountable when everyone wants everything to wirelessly connect to everything else.
I feel like I should share some words of wisdom I've learned over the years with you here:
Fuck Google.
Seriously, not only do they like pulling this kind of shit on a regular basis, but they are a complete bane of privacy. Seriously, the way they link everything to everything and spy on you basically no matter what is not even remotely acceptable, especially when you consider the fact that they can't really secure the information they steal from you because they are prevented by law from implementing anywhere near the security organizations like the NSA have, and we see how often they loose data. Frankly, it drives me up the wall that people freak out over NSA collecting information all the time, then turn around and hand their life stories over to every intelligence agency in the world via Google. Hell, Google talks up all their foreign staff because "diversity", yet no one ever seems to talk about what should be an obvious fact that at least some of those Chinese, Russian, and wherever else they come from people are plants for their respective intelligence agencies to create back doors into those Google databases with all their stolen information, especially since that includes information stolen from politicians and other high level government personnel.
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Yeah, interference is definitely a very real thing unless you turn your home into a Faraday cage, and that's not even talking about the perpetual annoyance of keeping all those batteries charged. Hell, battery life is the biggest reason I still stick with a flip phone (seriously, I can get several weeks to a charge, it's great), and I use a number of nominally wireless devices like my laptop and my old Xbox 360 controller as functionally wired devices by keeping them plugged in all the time because it's a lot easier than tracking ten million batteries 24/7.
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The fact that those headphones have a battery life is unacceptable to anyone who actually does anything with headphones.