See, that's the thing. Cities often have easement and right-of-way authority, if not ownership.A city can build-out whatever they want, and rent it to whomever.

But that interferes with the cable and telco's revenue streams. Loma Linda California tried it and was fought hard.

The vendors also objected. If you make zillions of dollars selling fiber to telcos, and telcos don't want pesky municipalities getting in their way, the fiber companies will ally with the telcos. Telcos don't want to fight with two thousand municipalities, they want to do one big bribe/campaign contribution to just a handful of people that they can write the legislation for. Makes it easier.

Monopoly isn't the right word; the right word is: Cabal.

and probably copyrighted it. Composed it. Maybe edited it. Laid it out on page. Perhaps illustrated it. Did the work.

Needs to get paid.

It's like Harlan Ellison said: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

NOT sucked up into an engine.

NOT guided by an "editor" with dubious values.

NOT enhanced by some well-intentioned silicon spew.

Real people. Real work. Getting paid.

Publishers are looking for revenue. Distribution sources, electronic, print, and secondary markets look for their revenue.

Copyright holders, who may not be any of the above (See Author's Guild for litigation models) are another source of "injured parties".

There then becomes the motivation of content creators, authors, writers, researchers, and others who look at their work output becoming sucked in without compensation-- and this might be the biggest part of the problem.

If creators and researchers/etc stop generating source material, the entire food chain stops, and the quality of output to the ultimate consumer, us, becomes mightily stanched, a foot on the garden hose of knowledge.

Perhaps the app could be extended to FlockOff, another privacy rapist, now that the code and EMBEDDED PASSWORD has been hacked.

They talk about those issues quite a lot, Blindy McBlindeyes.

And.... look what pile of crap they scraped, distilled, and the output will be... crap.

Sure, this is about income, but little of this stuff works, even now.

Despite exhortations that New Advances Are Made Every Day and Look AI Employment Is Actually Up!, it's still highly-paid marketing people babbling BS about the power and integrity of their advancements.

Let the Chinese scrape! More is better! Why? It's like the old game of Telephone. The further away from cogent source material, the worse it will inevitably be. Rinse, repeat, and you'll need to rinse a LOT.

And the way that happens doesn't make certain uses, implementations free from problems - the issue isn't with "caemras and other tools," in a broad sense. ~_~

Primarily (if not entirely) of cops, which is not the same as wanting these Flock cameras, or the Flock system.

Cars last longer because of engineering competition to drive quality in vehicle design and assembly.

The ODB2 standard congealed a lot of emissions hassle, and ultimately forced prolonging service life in many product lines.

Although many shade tree mechanics of an older era are gone, there are many new ones that mod their cars, or simply repair them without the need of expensive dealer service costs; this is also part of the Right To Repair movement, where secret sauces hidden in the CANBUS. connected, multi-system firmware present in most cars.

Hackers have figured out what's what for many models.

And while convenience features are nice, any engineer will tell you that more features means more things that can go wrong. Owning some vehicles is like death-by-a-thousand-cuts as desired features slowly decay. Common parts become rarer and rarer.

The no-button approach also means a single point of failure-- the all-important console.Features become combines, all in a race to the bottom.

Increasing compliance costs and the need for profitability push car makers to make unwise choices. Button-based vehicles required ten seconds of familiarity to drive safely. Console-based devices require far more, and also cause visual distractions instead of intuitive look-and-feel controls.

It's just not as simple as you describe. Worse, international-market focused vehicle makers, especially the Europeans, make a center console because they must adapt to a left of right side steering basis-- it's cheaper just to build holes in the chassis and move the steering column left or right, thus not having two different dashboards and assemblies.

Consumers will choose among the offerings that suit them. The auto industry used to use specs to drive vehicle sales. Now, the motives and marketing are lifestyle-appeals.

No, just... no. If others want to accuse you of AI sloppery because you use em-0dashes, let them be retards, or even better, call out their retardery. Don't change your writing style, and validate their stupidity.

And... so.... why the need for extra memory, rumored GPU support, and etc.?

Um, no, the whole model isn't on the phone. I didn't suggest that. Instead, each app will grow into blimp-sized monstrosities, load phones down with MCP traffic, and drag phone performance to a crawl, all while increasing net traffic meteorically.

Prove me wrong.

Even if Windows was open sourced tomorrow, stem to stern, who would even want it? It's full of immensely cobbled code, patched 200x, and still barely works.

You can't see the code today. Open source at least give you that. You can only poke an amorphous code base, or alternately, pray.

Prayer never helped me much.

Visible code did.

It's for this reason that most models should be treated as a malware worm vendor looking for a spot marked X, where X is your turf.

No one wants this. AI on your phone is one of the worst ideas I can imagine. You have a 4K screen-- and now you're trying to do pixel edits on animation?

You want to find your way through Manhattan traffic at 4pm on a Friday in your Jeep? Imagine wickedly insane requests, seemingly unlimited by token costs, barraging your phone. Remember metered minutes and texts?

These models aren't compact. 5G traffic, which is sort of tenable in most areas now, is going to MCP'ing fifty requests a minute to answer simple questions. Have fun, folks, when your call gets interrupted because of model flow request on TOP of concurrent streams from fifty of your friends nearby. Even 6G doesn't cure THAT.