DuckDuckGo......the anti Google.
Believe me. They all do it. Your computer is NOT "your computer", any more than "your money in the bank" is yours. When you turn the machine off it can't harm you. And when they come knocking on the door they might be in for a surprise.
What you expect is completely irrelevant.
Fuji is advertizing Instax in German photo magazines because they know that they can get new customers this way.
Their sales are increasing, so their Instax strategy is working. Period.
The shops which are offering Instax are selling it very well. So if the shops in your area made the decision to ignore an interesting, successful product.....well, their decision. It is a free country here. Everyone can make the mistakes he wants.
If two or three of the shops in your woods don't offer Instax, so what. It's irrelevant for the German market.
Because all the online distributors here offer Instax, including the big ones working mainly in Digital Imaging, like Foto Brenner, the biggest photo distributor.
Their photo catalog is printed in hundreds of thousands units, and sent to all their customers. Furthermore it is available in all the print magazine shops at the railway stations and airports.
And there are the Fuji Instax cameras and films offered as well, with product pictures. This catalog is a mass medium in Germany.
And in their weekly customer email newsletter they cover Instax as well.
Just today they advertised the new Instax SHARE printer for smartphones using Instax film in their newsletter.
That are the facts.
Regards,
Henning
I hadn't heard about this until your post, but will start using it in parallel with Google to see how well it works. If results are as good or better, I'll make it my default. Competition is good.DuckDuckGo......the anti Google.
There'll never be one of those in my house. In fact, the old-school, mechanical-clock, mercury-wetted-contacts Honeywell unit that was installed in our newly built home in 1993 will be coming along when we move.
The problem is that initially new technology is available on an opt-in basis. Later it becomes available on an opt-out basis. Then eventually it becomes a mandatory no other option available standard. You don't have a choice. Unless you chose to live in an unheated tar-paper shack out in the woods somewhere.
Another example? Someday soon the only option will be for smart, IP-connected ("Works with Nest?") refrigerators that know what's stored inside them. And therefore what's missing and should be added to your virtual grocery list. A wonderful (?) convenience we would all want, right?
The danger is that the remote refrigerator data servers will then hold a record of everything perishable that you eat and drink on a regular basis. Information that your health insurance company would just love to know when it's time to set your updated policy premium rates. And be more than willing to pay for to get their hands on.
Tracking what you eat and drink? In your own home? Impossible to do you say? Click here and watch the short video...
Now, what happens when that new technology is purchased by Google, and then upgraded to be a "Works with Nest" item?
Ken
I can't save the world from itself. Given that I'm childless by choice and considering my actuarially probable remaining life, continued repair of existing items is the way I will personally avoid intrusive technology. So far the 1993 refrigerator just keeps going and going, as does the clothes dryer purchased at the same time. I did need to replace the matching washer's inlet valve last year, which wasn't too bad considering it had suffered through 20 years passing our alleged "water" through it. I'll probably stockpile a second valve soon in case they're no longer available in 2033.The problem is that initially new technology is available on an opt-in basis. Later it becomes available on an opt-out basis. Then eventually it becomes a mandatory no-other-options-available standard. You don't have a choice. Unless you chose to live in an unheated tar-paper shack out in the woods somewhere...
Given that I'm childless by choice and considering my actuarially probable remaining life, continued repair of existing items is the way I will personally avoid intrusive technology.
Welcome to your world. I remember September 11 and sitting in my cubicle crying for the world I lived in that had died, and the world my granddaughter would live in that was being born.
Welcome to your world. I remember September 11 and sitting in my cubicle crying for the world I lived in that had died, and the world my granddaughter would live in that was being born.
My apologies to Mirko if he's reading through these posts to see if anyone is addressing issues related to or asking questions about his company's products. All of this stuff should have been the subject of a new thread in the Lounge.
The problem is that initially new technology is available on an opt-in basis. Later it becomes available on an opt-out basis. Then eventually it becomes a mandatory no-other-options-available standard. You don't have a choice. Unless you chose to live in an unheated tar-paper shack out in the woods somewhere.
Another example? Someday soon the only purchasing option will be for smart, IP-connected ("Works with Nest?") refrigerators that know what's stored inside them. And therefore what's missing and should be added to your virtual grocery list. A wonderful (?) convenience we would all want, right?
The danger is that the remote refrigerator data servers will then hold a record of everything perishable that you eat and drink on a regular basis. Information that your health insurance company would just love to know when it's time to set your updated policy premium rates. And be more than willing to pay for to get their hands on.
Tracking what you eat and drink? In your own home? Impossible to do you say? Click here and watch the short video...
Now, what happens when that new technology is purchased by Google, and then upgraded to be a "Works with Nest" item?
Ken
Another example? Someday soon the only purchasing option will be for smart, IP-connected ("Works with Nest?") refrigerators that know what's stored inside them. And therefore what's missing and should be added to your virtual grocery list. A wonderful (?) convenience we would all want, right?
The danger is that the remote refrigerator data servers will then hold a record of everything perishable that you eat and drink on a regular basis. Information that your health insurance company would just love to know when it's time to set your updated policy premium rates. And be more than willing to pay for to get their hands on.
Tracking what you eat and drink? In your own home? Impossible to do you say? Click here and watch the short video...
Ken
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