"don't keep every single word by every employee for the purpose of untargeted, large-scale fishing expeditions".
When was the last time that happened?
Even the summary said it was because Spotify is refusing to pay the core tech fee.
It's not because they are advertising prices, it's because they aren't fulfilling the other side of the contract - which they should be doing until the courts say if that is illegal.
Apple has no reason (legal or otherwise) to provide a service (approving an app) without compensation. At least as far as I know - even in the EU, you can't be compelled to such a thing, can you?
This, so much this. It's a shame that reporting is allowed to create (mis)leading headlines.
The articles on this don't even mention that this is standard practice related to amortization schedules of R&D and other capital costs - it absolutely does not mean that the marginal cost of every vehicle is $100k greater than the sale price of each vehicle, and the article writers know it.
So you're saying not to hire people from San Francisco?
Not speaking for the OP, but yes.
Despite his history as a true computer scientist with actual academic credentials, Raghavan chose to bulldoze actual workers and replace them with toadies
People who don't play office politics lose to people who do. Having "toadies" helps you win the game of Survivor. It works because the CEO doesn't recognize actual skill.
You may want to add Flash memory, too.
Flash would have to be DC powered.
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from mathematics. -- N. Wiener