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by mc32 1253 days ago
Even worse is their vision of people playing complete idiots in public places --yeah, I'm just gonna do virtual fencing in the middle of a crowded street and make myself vulnerable to assailants. The park, yes, that works but a busy street, are they just out of touch with reality?
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dmix 1253 days ago
This is how consumer products fast track into pivoting into enterprise product lines.

Disregard for culture and obvious social media reactions.

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gernb 1253 days ago
You have to start somewhere.

https://techcentral.co.za/the-cellphones-of-the-1980s/191544...

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kimburgess 1253 days ago
“Enterprise” product: why spend the resources making something people _want_ to use when you can instead focus on just getting one person (who doesn’t use it) to buy it, then force it on an entire organisation of users.
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dmix 1253 days ago
That's an oversimplification. Plenty of enterprise tech products are a drastic improvement over what the orgs were doing before (usually no tech).

The problem is the products themselves are usually garbage due to the bureaucratic/"management" driven sales process that adopts the tech, where product development is driven by saying "yes" to every customer's demands.

The good consumer products figure out what people want for a demographic by listening to them (or being them) - but not actually letting them design the software itself by doing everything they ask. Yet there's still plenty of low-quality enterprise software which is miles better than previous 'processes'.

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smallnix 1253 days ago
> make myself vulnerable to assailants

Also be a nuisance to everyone

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tluyben2 1253 days ago
Like people walking into you while looking on their phone, which, somewhere like central London, happens 1000x per day? That used to be frowned upon and before that (90s) it was straight-up weird. At least with AR you can see where you are going. It's just weird how little peripheral vision people have and yet stare down at their phone while walking.

Or like people filming me (which is luckily not allowed where I am) without consent? Talking about nuisance.

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jupp0r 1253 days ago
Make yourself vulnerable to assailants?
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