I've walked past it so many times and never went up it, looks frankly terrifying at the top.
I used Thunderbird about 10 years ago? Looks amazing compared to what I remember.
Yeah I think they needed to aim for around £450, though even then they're up against the A54.
£579 puts it at £80 more than a Pixel 7, very tough competition..
No surprises here!
That's sort of where I was going I guess. Now Meta are involved it's a buzzword.
Giving it out free devalues those trying to profit from the same product. And if it's free, open source platforms can benefit too.
My I'm feeling optimistic tonight.
I suspect the weird recurring memes that require decade old knowledge of the platform to fully understand is going to create some "quirky" AI hallucinations
On the bright side for them, they still have a commercial monopoly. The number of ads might go up while the quality of the content goes down.
I think it's all had a bigger impact on Lemmy than it has had on Reddit. The lasting impact might be that Reddit now has viable competition for the first time since Digg, which is a good thing.
I'm going to guess a large percentage cannot fully explain why the think that.