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batye
batye
7/7/2016 4:18:41 AM
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Re: Overlooked
@dlr5288 yes I could not agree more...it very, very important... in Canada we do tend to overpay for everything...  :(... sad...

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dlr5288
dlr5288
6/28/2016 11:45:12 PM
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Re: Overlooked
Good point and I agree. I think it's important for businesses to give their customers fair prices. I sometimes feel like businesses cheat their customers with their high prices.

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freehe
freehe
6/28/2016 11:24:51 PM
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Overlooked
The goal is for new techology to improve customers lives but that doesn't always happen. Companies must find a balance between new technology and the cost to customers.

I am all for new technology but don't want to pay a mortgage for it.

Customers should question the cost associated with a particular service when shopping around for new technology, products and services. The benefits should always outweight the costs.

 

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freehe
freehe
6/28/2016 11:23:03 PM
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Samsugn IoT
As a writer I always verify data from multiple credible sources before including it in any of my articles or media interviews. Credibility is key in any industry but especially journalism.

I don't consider bloggers to be journalists and many do not follow any type of standard when reporting content, factual or rumored content.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
6/26/2016 8:19:53 PM
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Re: Of course, another way this can be looked at...
Mike, Ariella, please forgive a small attack of les mots d'escalier:

the thing is, because "information wants to be free" BUT "information wants to be expensive"  (people forget Stewart Brand put those two statements next to each other), we end up with a situation where very few people pay to be informed (and when they do it's about very narrow areas directly relevant to their particular business) but many organizations want to pay for the right to do the informing (i.e. they are advertisers and marketers).

So while it is true that if you find a good brand of baby powder, corn flakes, or laundry soap (something you buy over and over) you stick with it and eventually they make money, it's also true that there's going to be a vast amount of information ranging from shaded to outright lies and it will be concentrated in fields where you make your economic decisions just once, or a few times,  in a lifetime.

If Barnes's Weak And Stinky Detergent doesn't get your clothes clean, you stop buying it from me, and the market works.  But if Barnes's Minimum Security Geezer Prison (now with robots!) gives your parents a crappy, lonely, depressing old age, there's a good chance that neither you nor they will be revisiting the purchase decision. So it pays me a lot more and better to convince you that robot caretakers are the wave of the future and the modern solution to care of the elderly than it does to persuade you that my lousy soap will get you clean.

Scott Adams made a similar point in a very NSFW Dilbert decades ago, about medical technology that would have cost about as much as the VCR to develop, and why as a society we "chose" the VCR.

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msilbey
msilbey
6/24/2016 11:41:56 AM
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Re: Purely healthcare?
Agreed that this sounds like a pretty limited view of IoT's potential. On the other hand, given that IoT crosses so many categories, maybe it makes sense to start strategizing around one and then build from there. 

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Ariella
Ariella
6/23/2016 12:00:56 PM
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Re: Of course, another way this can be looked at...
@Mike yes, I agree. I also try to always make my titles accurate rather than overstate things just to induce people to click, but as the proliferation of clickbait out there indicates, that's not something everyone has scruples about. 

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Mike Robuck
Mike Robuck
6/23/2016 11:52:31 AM
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Re: Of course, another way this can be looked at...
Good read. From the article: "As I discovered in visits to newsrooms with varying histories and roles, what's new is what's always worked: In the minute-by-minute struggle for audience and advertising, old-fashioned notions about credibility turn out to be as essential as speed. Despite utopian rhetoric about the Web as a self-correcting mechanism, getting things right from the start turns out to have considerable value."

 

 

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Ariella
Ariella
6/23/2016 10:36:06 AM
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Re: Of course, another way this can be looked at...
@Mike perhaps so, but there is this: ". Rare is the news organization that doesn't occasionally jump on Twitter with half-baked facts, and rarer still is the one that refuses to gin up content about the day's major trending topics." from http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/who_cares_if_its_true.php

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Mike Robuck
Mike Robuck
6/23/2016 10:24:28 AM
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Re: Of course, another way this can be looked at...
@ariella, "tiny handful," that's a pretty big generalization of journalism. Not to get off topic, but I think that may apply more to bloggers than tradiitional journalists who at least went to college to study their craft. 

JohnBarnes, I tend to think of newer technologies as a way to make people's lives better somehow. I do understand there are dollar signs attached, but the ones that are truly useful will win out in the end. But it's always good to question everything these days.  

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