An interview with ADOX's Mirko

[RattyMouse]

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.

DuckDuckGo......the anti Google.

 

[RattyMouse]

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

Good info Henning. I am sure that overall in Germany, INSTAX film and cameras is quite successful and very easy to find.

 

[Sal Santamaura]

DuckDuckGo......the anti Google.

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.

Note that nothing lasts forever, especially in "Internet years." Who knows how long it will take for DuckDuckGo to adopt Google practices.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

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-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

 

[Tom1956]

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

Ken, I think the ACA already trumped that. Anything can be linked to "healthcare". And you better bloody well believe they will do it, and have already started. I'm not too worried about a "smart refrigerator". In the end it will have to have a compressor, coils, condenser like any refrigerator. And it can be stripped and straight-wired to make it into a "dumb" refrigerator. Wait a minute--I posted this and hit post and then remembered the topic was Adox. Sorry for that.

 

[Sal Santamaura]

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...

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.

It's ironic that we're having this discussion on a Web site dedicated to film-based photography in a thread about a company which uses equipment built many decades ago and kept running for our product purchasing satisfaction. I have no more concern about "smart" appliances invading my home than I do about silver halide imaging disappearing before I do. Condolences to those young people who will live longer than I and ride much further on the "technology appropriateness" curve's downside.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

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.

Just you wait. The My Name Is Earl karma is going to get you. You'll end up unexpectedly living so long that by the time you do go the only caskets available will be Nest-compatible ones with IP addresses. And goo-resistant webcams for selfies. Your technological fate will thus be sealed for eternity. And eternity will be forever entertained by watching you on their Google Glass(es)...



Ken

 

[pbromaghin]

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.

 

[Tom1956]

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.

Your cubicle?? I've heard that termed used before, and I know what it means. I believe it to be a padded cell made of movable 5-foot partitions, where individual insanities are distracted by electronic devices from their ability to act in a destructive collective.
To that I can only add a link that I'm reminded of . So apropos, yet again. Thank the lord my cubicle is comprised of acres and not square feet. Substitute North Carolina or South Carolina, if you will, since the line comes right through these parts somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo

and a bonus tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqMG3VR5PP4

 

[Trask]

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.

 

[RattyMouse]

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.

I know the feeling. My son was born 1 week later and I knew that his world would be a far more terrible place than I could ever imagine.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

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.

Not to worry. Mirko saw that we were all going berserk again in this thread, so he wisely started an identical parallel thread for serious questions, and everyone has respected the topic in that one.

Quite a few really good questions were asked, including by me regarding IR film manufacturing obstacles. And as always Mirko has given very straightforward answers to all. A refreshingly honest alternative approach to customer relations.

Here's the serious thread for those who may have missed it: (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Ken

 

[StoneNYC]

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

You're staring to sound like Tom... Lol (not that I don't agree with you haha).

 

[Tom1956]

This thread has only started getting severely sidetracked for about 24 hours at most. Maybe a moderator will slice that off and tack it on the "boy am I getting old" thread.

 

[ME Super]

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

I work in IT. At least right now, the fridge would have to have a network connection in order to report to the servers. If you don't run an Ethernet cable, and don't give the fridge the network ID and password, it can't connect. If it has to have a network connection in order to control it, then it will have a MAC address, which you can configure your router to deny it access to the Internet. Of course, if you have to connect to the server in order to control your fridge, then it would be a fridge that I would not want.

Now back to the real topic, which is the interview with Mirko from Adox...