You talk numbers, so let me ask you a numbers question: at their current valuation, if the brand is 60% of the value that’s top 5 estimated brand value.
Is OpenAI really one of the five most valuable brands in the world?
The Five-Eyes agreement allows the UK and US to share any intelligence material immediately. This is 100% orchestrated with American intelligence agencies to allow them to get American data.
When push comes to shove, the US government will probably side with the UK.
Youtube enforces its own terms of service, not them. They just bullied you into removing the content so they can keep their ad revenue from the views without having to compete with you.
Go for international movies. A lot of them have incredibly convoluted rights, so the biggest expense is going to be negociations, but if you can become a destination to find obscure films from varied countries, it might be possible to eke out a slice of the pie.
> but now it's just power-user-hostile and considerably more locked down and buggy.
Sure, macOS has continued to secure more and more elements of the OS. They have taken a different approach than Windows and Linux, which both keep large swaths of the OS woefully insecure from third-party apps for legacy reasons. But for each and every new lock, there is a key. An incredibly secure OS that gives you the power to control what third-party apps access on your computer is the best power-user feature.
Mac OS does some amazing things for security. An immutable root OS, sandboxing, very user friendly disk encryption.
But there are certainly decisions that hold back the platform.
Their business decisions have driven most developers away from the App Store.
There is a notarization process, but it imposes a burden that many small open source projects can not bear.
They don't have an easy way to run untrusted software in a containerized way (compare Fedora toolbox). Installing things globally via homebrew or a random install script is still the way to go.
When Apple secured the OS from third party, they also purposefully closed the door on deeper third party integration to privilege their ecosystem.
macOS only being half as useful for Android users makes it harder to be the "best" for that swath of users. iPadOS being the only tablet form in the ecosystem will also distance other users etc. They just can't please everyone while locking them in a limited ecosystem.
So the LA Times is not part of the propaganda that brought us the Iraq War? And the US must, must at all cost, stop paying for prison guards to figure it out?
There's no other way to just ... figure it out? You know, by studying the situation?
And when has “studying the situation” ever worked to make the government stop wasting money destroying the Middle East? Obama promised to change this stuff, and he couldn’t do it, because he innately trusted the same people who made the mistakes to “study” how to fix them.
Is OpenAI really one of the five most valuable brands in the world?
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