how does race or gender have anything to do with this?

what makes you think most people wouldn’t be ok with wearing tech on their face?

maybe you are the one forgetting that cameras and microphones are already in all the products that most people already have. how is AR any different?

firstly, just because you say so doesn’t mean there is ZERO market for it.

secondly, of course there isn’t significant demand for it yet it’s a completely new technology and the use case is still being explored. people can’t demand what doesn’t exist.

Thirdly, show me exactly where companies are “coercing” us to create demand for AR. of course i realize there are extreme marketing campaigns that try unecessarily hard to push products like AI, but that is obviously not happening with AR.

Just stop mindlessly accepting and defending this behavior and stand up for yourself as a consumer.

finally, if you seriously can’t comprehend any way at all that AR could be helpful then you are just as mindless as you are accusing me of being. stop being an arrogant asshole and consider that people can disagree with you without being “mindless”.

I’m not even a huge proponent of AR glasses, but i think that’s a pretty shortsighted view. AR/VR tech was still in its infancy when google decided to drop it (as they do with many beloved products btw), and Apple has a history of repackaging/refining products in a way that allows them to catch on. Apple Vision is by all accounts a cool product, just still way too expensive for mainstream use. The tech is still maturing. I’m not saying Apple will for sure succeed, but it’s just silly to outright claim “there is no market for this”.

also “forced onto consumers”? no one is being forced to buy anything, what a ridiculous take.

it’s not that complicated, the goal is to create another hit product that everyone wants like the ipod and iphone.

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chipotle drive through

i used to think this as well (i have never used any facebook apps), but last night something happened that made me question it.

My wife and i were going through a chipotlane that was right next to a Popeye’s. As we were waiting i looked over to popeyes and saw some posters for their new pickle chicken stuff and asked my wife “the fuck is a pickle ‘glaze’?”

she said “i have no idea but i kinda want some fried pickles now.”

literally a few seconds later she opens instagram on her phone and is shown a video of a person making pickle brined chicken.

yes yes it could be a coincidence, but i am a lot less certain of that now.

The flaw in the analogy is that it assumes that those effects are limited to some companies

no it doesn’t.

it’s an analogy; the author is drawing parallels between them. Obviously Tobacco companies were not “defeated” but they were regulated to hell, and I’m sure the author would say that’s what we need to do with social media too.

exactly, the only reason they care about “immigration” is because they’re afraid of losing their precious racial and cultural majority. Immigration is a blatant dogwhistle for racists.