Re:Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
by duped on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:15PM
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Maids will be cheaper than robots for at least a decade
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Re:Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
by wdh505 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:34PM
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Are you willing to pay for privacy as a premium?
Re:Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
by duped on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:39PM
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I don't think whatever Silicon Valley cooks up will be more private than a human who has fallible memory
Re:Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
by PopePompus on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:05PM
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I don't want to pay someone to clean up my messes. That is not the kind of relationship I want to have with another human. But I'd happily pay for a machine that did it.
Re:Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
by duped on Thursday April 04, 2024 @11:46PM
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I understand that this is coming from a place of privilege, but I was raised with regular maid service cleaning our home as a child and it's just something you learn to live with. You pick up after yourself for the easy things like throwing out garbage and picking up your clothes on the floor so the maids can do the heavy work like deep cleaning everything that's not in the way. And it's not necessarily unaffordable for biweekly cleaning.
You don't hire a maid service to clean up after you, you do it because they do a better job at all the stuff you really don't want to.
Re:Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
by swat535 on Friday April 05, 2024 @10:04AM
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You would literally be making the same argument for any other breakthrough tech:
Why invent a dishwasher? You can have someone do it! Why have automated elevators? You can have someone do it! Why have automated farming systems? You can hire cheap Mexicans to do it!
We like to invent technologies to help make people's lives easier.
Re:Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
by fragmede on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:23AM
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That person doesn't have a better job available to them though, so without that job, you're sentencing them to destitution, which seems like a worse outcome for them. Fortunately you don't have to see it though.