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Re:Terrifyingly Convenient by BatFastard on Saturday April 09, 2016 @02:49PM (#11462684)
So you can get voice recognition at home, but you end up losing updates, new features, and ability to interoperate with other services. Cloud based services make it so that one person doesn't have to carry this load themselves.
Re:Terrifyingly Convenient by eli_gottlieb on Saturday April 09, 2016 @02:55PM (#11462708)
Can't I get those things from `sudo apt-get upgrade`?
Re:Terrifyingly Convenient by peterjancelis on Saturday April 09, 2016 @03:58PM (#11463015)
Having mass market B2C customers do this is a customer support nightmare.
Re:Terrifyingly Convenient by nitrogen on Saturday April 09, 2016 @11:09PM (#11464683)
Standardization makes it so that nobody has to carry this load themselves.