> they do not actually give the user access to general purpose computing in the sense that the users can control exactly what computations the device is going to execute
What prevents the creation of an App that allows one to do exactly that?
> I'd rather focus on standardizing a transparent and privacy safe way to gather these metrics. Consumers would know what metrics are collected and there would be guarantees that privacy is kept.
I'd rather see laws to have it disabled by default. People who don't mind can then opt-in again.
Four people seems to be an interesting threshold when it comes to groups. The British special forces, for example, started doing four man teams and several units of other countries followed their example (SEALS, KSK, etc).
Graphics cards are already dead for me (as a causual gamer). I recently bought a used notebook with a 12th Gen Intel Core processor and it can run an impressive list of games.