The Alexa division is struggling so they are well into the extract phase of the product.

Google will get there in time as well.

I’m saying there isn’t a religion that doesn’t force it’s shit on people.

So basically you’re fine with supporting things that hurt others just so long as you’re left alone.

Religions have yet to prove to me they are not just another tribal group that wants control with extra steps.

The main issue will be application support.

Linux running on the desktop in 2025 is helped immensely by everything being web based. So long as you have a browser you are fine for a lot of general computing.

The phone space is ruled by apps. The phone makers and the companies developing apps prefer it this way.

Getting a banking app, or Uber or Facebook Messenger to work on a Linux phone is going to be a massive pain in the ass (ignoring the rest of the OS which is definitely not even close to useable for the general public).

I would love a Linux phone but we are so far away.

Kagi does provide a good experience but it can never replace the free search engines. It relies pretty heavily on Google’s search API it just allows you to massage the results with tools Google took away.

The incentives don’t allow for this shit in an organization like Google. They can only respond to stock price and earnings.

Very likely someone back channeled a demand and they folded like a deck of cards.

So the team responsible for that AI box added Trump dementia to the list of things it won’t respond to.

The team responsible for the news bits didn’t get the request so that just shows up in its place.

Ok, but who is providing the loans for the buy out. When they default on the debt someone or some thing is not getting paid. If that were the case eventually no company would loan money for a leveraged but out right?