It's not the shortage ending, it's supply and demand with demand suddenly cancelling orders due to Chinese government crackdown on miners. And then those miners flood the market with the cards they have, increasing supply. Good thing tho, I'll take it.

They increased Family price for us to €19 (+2€) in February. I'm going to stay without Premium for the whole of May to get to the same price level annually. I'll be forcing myself to Youtube Music during that month, which comes with Youtube Premium that I already have anyway. Will see if I even come back in June. Good job, greedy Spotify.

When it becomes pointless to create own phone and app store because no one would buy and use them, this option is literally not available. Which in turn forces you accept terms that are one-sided. That is where anti-monopoly mechanisms kick in. These activities to scrutinize Apple and Google that we hear about lately are the results of the governments recognizing that consumers and business are being heavily disadvantaged by the monopolistic behavior of Apple and Google.

The poll was clearly inspired by WhatsApp privacy issues, but why not give it as an option of what people *prefer to use*?

What they don't mention is the cost or rather missed profits of having no such software in the first place. Yes you might have business running on 20 years old MS Access database and it might be expensive to maintain or replace it, but you cannot deny the value said software generated during these years.

This is applicable to all parts of the technical depth the IT world has to carry. It generates more value than its amortized cost. Otherwise it gets replaces, always.

Can't say it's unexpected that Oracle does something evil towards another company.
Can't say I'm not surprised that Oracle did something good that benefits people.

The answer is almost always a NO if a news headline ends with a question mark.

I mean, it's a working business idea if people fall for it, isn't it?

Keep in mind that this is the same company that asserted full ownership of source code of the most popular open-source web server product Nginx, which led to arrests of the original author and police raids in the Nginx (sold to F5 Networks in March 2019) office.

3PAR, Nimble, Simplivity, XP and Primera are not affected. Phew

> What makes stealing content particularly appealing in this age is...

Fragmentation of streaming services and jacking up prices beyond what's affordable before people bother torrenting. Corporate greed, that is.

Considering they have "no problem" with lack of community support of COBOL, I don't think Python2 retirement is an issue for banking sector. Also what does the article actually mean by "the end of security patches" for a programming language?

There is world-wide competition to be the social network of the planet. Chinese or Russian platforms will take over the void immediately if Facebook is killed. No, let's find another solution.

whichever way you look at it.

Those began to wake up and see their favourite platform is lacking at best.