Moviepass is not coupons. Every time a MoviePass holder goes to the movies, MoviePass has to pay the theater face-value of the ticket. The movie studio and theater still get the same $11.75 (to split) that they always got for each patron. Then the MoviePass holder spends $15 on popcorn and soda. The theater keeps 100% of this. MoviePass gets nothing. The theaters win with MoviePass because it brings more customers to the theater, and they gave up NOTHING. For MoviePass to have worked, they would have to had worked out a deal, before going live, with either the studio (discount pricing or kick-back) or theater (some cut of the concessions.) But once live, there was no incentive to the theater or studios to work with them since they got all the benefit with no risk.

In a coupon scenario, the store is luring you in with a coupon. They make slightly less on the product of the coupon, but are betting that you will spend additional money that you would otherwise not have spent. Sure, some customers would have bought X at $Y, and with the coupon they are still only going to by X at .75Y, but there are plenty of people who would never have bought X from you at all to make up for the little bit lost.

Google doesn't require manufactures to install Google apps to use Android. Android is open source, and manufacturers are free to use it without any requirements from Google, which is exactly what Amazon did with their FireOS. What Google does insist upon is that if you want to include Google services, such as their Play store, you must include all of their core apps. I hardly think this is unreasonable.

An electric car, sitting out in the sun on hot asphalt, will easily be over 120 deg F.

Or, you can view it as a symbiotic relationship. I let my phone feed Google telemetry info about my driving- road I'm on, speed I'm traveling, etc, and in turn, I get access to all that aggregated data to tell me when there is congestion. I upload my photos to Google Photos, and Google scans the pictures using their AI to see what my interests are, and when I'm putting together a photo album, and I want to find pictures of the time I was teaching my kids how to ride a bike, I search for "bike" in my photos, and it gives me pictures of people riding bikes.

There's nothing wrong with being a monopoly for your own product. There are plenty of direct-sales manufacturers out there. Tesla is a single manufacturer (and a very small one at that.) If you don't like what they are charging, buy a product from another manufacturer. Tesla has to compete with GM, Nissan, Ford, etc who also make electric cars. They can only price their cars to be competitive with them.

You can get electricity anywhere. If you can get petroleum to a location for an IC car, you can get electricity from that same petroleum. Sure, you lose any of the extra efficiency and reduced pollution benefits in that case, but surely we can all agree that this is an edge case. Not to mention, if you have an IC car in a remote place, you are dependent on deliveries of gasoline/diesel fuel. With an electric car, you have any number of possibilities to generate electricity (methane, propane, solar, wind, etc) to charge the car should fuel deliveries be interrupted.

It's not just about the battery life being shorter in full power mode on an old battery. It's that during high drain situations, the battery couldn't provide the amperage necessary and it would cause instability and the phone to crash.

It's called Rogue AP detection, and most (if not all) enterprise wireless systems already do this. But, it requires set up, monitoring, and then an action plan in place for what to do when an rogue AP is detected. Resources and skills typically missing from your CoffeeShop staff.

Except ET for the 2600 WAS an Atari-created game. The console crash can be blamed on the glut of cheap, bad games being churned out largely by 3rd parties, but ET was not one of those.

Example- Google uses my map data (and the data from all other Google Maps/Waze users) to see how fast traffic is moving on every road, which is turn fed back to me so I can see which route to take on my way home. Surely they are also selling this information to other consumers of traffic data, but I certainly get value out of this.

I would presume that they could do fixed wireless as a solution, as well.

That doesn't always work so well, either.

A Fitbit can be paired with any device that can run the app- iPhone, Android, tablet. The point is-you are not stuck in one manufacturers ecosystem.

Yes. There's nothing like waking up in the morning and realizing that you accidentally left WiFi turned off, and it's spent the night uploading your entire 12GB of photos and video to the cloud over LTE.

Wow! Real T-3 lines? What is this, 2003?