Re:Big Tech's Big Defector: Roger McNamee
by csallen on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @12:26AM
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Tech -- especially social media -- is often directly competitive with old media, and has for years at this point posed an existential threat. From Jobs wanting a 30% cut of the Times' revenue on iOS, to Amazon's cutthroat relationship with the publishing industry, Thiel's lawsuit against Gawker, Google search/news controlling distribution, Facebook's algorithm changes literally ending numerous media companies, etc., it's been pretty nonstop for over a decade now.
Always worth a mention when speculating as to why journalists tend to be so anti-tech nowadays.
Re:Big Tech's Big Defector: Roger McNamee
by firasd on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:49PM
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Yeah. Interesting article about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opinion/covington-twitter...
Re:Big Tech's Big Defector: Roger McNamee
by CriticalCathed on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:04PM
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Replace twitter with facebook/instagram and there you go. People spend hours and hours a day on there.
Re:Big Tech's Big Defector: Roger McNamee
by Abishek_Muthian on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:03AM
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Journalists don't have a choice, social media is the largest medium for consumption of News(or Title?).
For years News has been the least downloaded segment in the Appstore/Playstore[1], there was a chance to revive RSS when the social media got into trouble for fake news, but even that opportunity is lost as Google/Apple has repositioned themselves in the News segment.
[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/270291/popular-categorie...
A lot of media people seem to spend ~8 hours tweeting almost everyday, which is obviously unhealthy but not indicative of how most people use "big tech".