The American version of this is “FORD - Fix or Repair Daily.”

I can’t remember the last time I saw someone wearing a watch other than an Apple Watch. Maybe a couple Android watches.

> Having an app is not a distinguishing factor any more.

Having an app is "fuck you, i don't want to install another app" these days...

Wow, interesting take. Some counterpoints from history:

- After the wheel was invented, humanity has never stopped building vehicles with wheels.

- Since the printing press was created, humanity has never lost the ability to mass-copy and distribute information.

- Since airplanes were invented, humans have never been unable to achieve flight.

I'd say it's perfectly reasonable to believe that humans as a whole will never lose the ability to read digital information in the future. Heck, I'd say it's the most likely outcome.

Humans learn from each other. Information "likes to spread". All of known history supports the idea that technology generally advances in one direction.

> Physical records don’t need anything to exist and be read

Surely you’re joking. Physical records are notoriously fragile. They default to having a single copy and require intentional effort to create and distribute duplicates. They are frequently lost to fires, fading, physical decay, and even just being misplaced for generations.

Digital records have their own issues, but implying with a straight face that the default state of physical records is persistence is a bridge too far.

I think that yes, they will. Generally these historical records exist because some people went through the effort of preserving them for all these years. I feel this effort is a lot lower when your records are digital and infinitely duplicatable.

I'll like roundabouts as soon as someone comes up with a good way to fix the resource starvation problem (i.e., if there's a constant stream of traffic from your left, you'll never get a turn to go).

France did something like that last month. To support the "Centre national de la musique", a new 1.2% tax was added on digital music streaming services. But rather than absorbing the cost, Spotify just raised its subscription cost. In the end, the government just taxes its citizens more instead of getting a bigger share of revenue from these companies.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-03-07/spotify-to-adjust-it...