Saudi Arabian government company is buying Pokémon go and 100 million players real time location data
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Saudi Arabia really likes to invest in dead tech.
They don't care about the tech, they care about the data.
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They don't care about the tech, they care about the data.
You give them too much credit on this one. This decision was likely spearheaded by some nepo appointment who is out to diversify in the worst way. When your send cousin Johnny to college in the West, you're still not getting the best and brightest when he comes back. Whole structure of their investment fund is graft and bad decisions.
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OK so instead of tracking journalists with NSO spyware and murdering them,
they won't even have to install NSO anymore.
prepare to see news reports of many more mysterious murders, and obvious assassinations.
Next up, Saudi Arabia buys the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphone lines. Pokemon Go comes installed in the system partition for free with 1000 free PokeCoins, how generous!
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Jokes on them i've been cheating on this game with my location as some random places for a decade and lot of people have been doing this too.
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Next up, Saudi Arabia buys the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphone lines. Pokemon Go comes installed in the system partition for free with 1000 free PokeCoins, how generous!
and then absolutely everyone I talk to will do usual 'oh it's not that bad , you're over reacting' with the additional "I don't use it but I still have it installed"
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It’s been fun. Once this is official I guess it’s over for me.
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and then absolutely everyone I talk to will do usual 'oh it's not that bad , you're over reacting' with the additional "I don't use it but I still have it installed"
My mom: "hey honey how do I uninstall this Pokeman Go app? The uninstall button is greyed out. It's using 20% of my storage and battery"
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OK so instead of tracking journalists with NSO spyware and murdering them,
they won't even have to install NSO anymore.
prepare to see news reports of many more mysterious murders, and obvious assassinations.
All shinnies spawn at their embassy :sob emoji:
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Saudi Arabia really likes to invest in dead tech.
they need to branch out from thier dying, single industry, oil. they have been lapping up sports teams all over. turns out the desert is not a good place to live with little to no natural resources outside of oil.
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Pikmin Bloom too
Booooo. That sucks.
I was never into Pokemon before this app but this game was fun just finding new discoveries even in my own city.
Street Complete lets you walk around and answer questions that go to OSM
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Any source that is readable without an account?
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Business ethics? Meh, just profits, just profits.
But it's "just business". You can't blame them. That's the get out of jail free card, often literally.
/s
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Now add a new update that would encourge players to walk inside a Saudi Embassy...
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Any source that is readable without an account?
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It’s been fun. Once this is official I guess it’s over for me.
It was a rip off from the start..
I must confess, I was into it as well, but the game design was it to be so omnipresent that it hindered me on other tasks, so that I had to stop. I can’t play this game casually
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Saudi Arabia really likes to invest in dead tech.
Dead tech so many people play Pokemon go.
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Dead tech so many people play Pokemon go.
Sure but they're just buying a licensed property with a declining player base and leaving Niantic with the base tech and the drive to innovate. It's a dead end road where they're buying the "secure" part of the company but it's actually incredibly high risk because of how licensing agreements work. That's why I call it dead tech. They're not going to build anything out of it. It'll just decline.
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