It’s always about the data.
Niantic always announced itself as a data company.
Unwittingly? They paid you in-game currency to collect “research data”. What did people think they were doing?
Um are we sure we want this data? Weren’t there some people who walked into traffic and fell down hills playing Pokémon Go?
Soon we’ll find delivery robots trying to pull some amazing stunts, all thanks to the sacrifices of some daring Pokemon Go players. Good times ahead 🍿
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Iirc a lot of people also taped their device to ceiling fans and stuff to get steps (to hatch eggs maybe? Idk I never played it)
So we’ll have it directing people into circles for hours!
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It’ll be interesting to see a Waymo or Tesla FSD follow the path of a few Pokémon Go spoofers through buildings or directly across a field.
Gonna end up having GPS telling me to drive into someone’s backyard because Pokemon Go put a Charizard in there.
They’ve been collecting this data for over a decade and are just now starting to figure out what to do with it.
