Ideonek

Don't know much about magicearth,

But workspace have, so much more features than kSuitPro, that this is not even a fiar comparison. Even if you dont count externalities like Gemini, Video, notebookLM...

The convenience of Google Photos is unmatched, buy any corresponding services.

Mistrel AI is a Clippy compared to ChatGPT and Gemini Advenced. Those companies are burning money on every query, but - until they kill everything else - they are generating tremendous value to the users. Idea that Minsterl would be just as popular if only it promote itself without false modesty is hard to defend.

LibraOffice is free, but google sheet is as well, and cloud-ready on top of that.

Linux... sure, but for the same people free chromeOS is just as good if not better becouse more convinient. With google anything is in cloud anyway, right? Sure, Linux is amazing. But it's not exactly out-of-the-box. And if we count android... And who knows what Fussia will bring?

If you don't want to pay, Google offer is more convinient. If you do want to pay, it's broader and more powerful, all things equal.

Don't get me wrong. It's a trade of worth making. But pretending it's easy and that there are no costs is misleading people. I'm doing it. I'm committed. So far I paying twice as much as I did pay for my tech-stack, and there are still gaps that I lost in the process.

But it won't change, and only be worse if we are not ready to be uncomfortable for a while. It's a diet. If we oversell how easy it is, people will try and go back to junk food in a minute.

Well, it's a big and heterogeneous "outside" if we want to be nitpicky about it.

Maybe. But your impression of it may be skewed, because there are a lot of non-USA people here. That creste some mismatch in terms that tend to overwaight the perceived size of left-leaning people. But it's terminology, really. What in USA is considered "left" more-or-less align with what is considered left outside of USA. But what an average Trump supporter call "conservative", in the rest of the word is simply know as lunacy.

America is a continent, dude.

Thank you :) What do you use?

Probably Russians using bots on Twitter... oh, wait.

That kind of blew my mind.

Oh, that's simple. They are idiots that don't understand the product they sell.

Imagine that you are a best in the word graphic designer. And you have to sell your logo to someone, who literally don't see the difference between quality work and the logo that their nice did in ms paint.

In their mind those are the same picture, so why should they invest in you while you are 300x more expensive?

The don't see it, so their use data - that they also don't understand - to look for X factors and came up with idiotic conclusions like "star trek movies with older first captains perform better than movies with younger first capitan, so good script should have old one" or "movies with 3 joks per 5-minutes performe better than movies with one joke per 5 minutes"... or "jar-jar bings"...

When future comic book author of the masterpiece Bone finaly got his 5-minute meeting with publisher who was basicly a godfather-legend-who-is-who off paperstrips he heard "you should redraw all your comics so all speech-bubbles are thought-bubbles. Why? Garfield uses thought-bubbles, and it's so successful".

Soulcrushing.

It's the same reason why all all translations are shit now. People who decide are not literate enough to distinguish nuances of top-level translations from product of Google translate.

You're thinking additional 30k to make sure that a script is good is rounding error in the cost of the movie. They are thinking, typing one page should take like 10-minuts right? So with $15/h...."

Remember, for them LOTR and Hobbit are "just as good" source materials for epic blockbuster trilogy.

They are literally quality-blind. Cost-cutting is all they bring to the table.

One part of the problem, that he's completely missing is that those are are not fairly competing free market prices. Many of those hegemons like Google gain their positions using what basicly is dumping pricess. They are loosing moment or Gmail, Maps, Drive, Gemini (AI), and many more "free or cheep". Competitors are buried, bought on, copied, or starved as they need to.compeat with someone who is willing to burn millions. So many services that are leaders in their fields didn't deliver a single dollar of profit yet. Their literal business plan is "we will take it all back once no one will have a choice anymore"

"Just find a way to compete" is basicly victim blaming at this point.

You're describing my Facebook wall.

Hahahahahaha

Do you remember when writers strike, and the producents paid to cut leafs of trees, to denny them comfort of marching in shadow? It seems there is no limit of how much corporations are willing to pay to get rid of the inconveniences of dealing with human beings.

It seems that AI is amazing tool, that is bound to be used to make everything worse.