So, how developer intensive will the switch to Vulkan be?

How about build that thing using the XPS 18 form factor with a 1.5 hour internal battery and put all the extra battery in a big power cover. When it's on the docking pedestal, it can be used as an all-in-one, and when it's being carried, users can make their own weight versus battery life trade off by their choice of which battery size in the power cover. With a hot swappable power cover, users who really want extra battery life could carry two or more of them. When I imagine this sort of thing, I think of the cover holding a removable wireless keyboard, swinging around about 285 degrees and connecting to a brace that hinges off the top of the back of the tablet, making a nice stable triangle.

You might want to visit first, and see if the interest in your move is mutual.

I have a feeling I might trust African phone companies more than AT&T or Verizon also. African phone companies are charging $0 transaction fees, as compared to $0.5 for debit, 2% for Visa & MasterCard, and (2.2% to 2.9%) + $0.3 for Paypal.

Maybe Neo900 will be available then.

Yeah, it does. Thanks for the thought.

It might be, if they're switching to Asian manufacturing. If they sold all the employees they'd otherwise need to fire to Microsoft, then they don't get so much political backlash as they might by shutting down their own manufacturing and firing those people before outsourcing. I've read that one thing that made it hard for them to compete was that their in-house manufacturing couldn't produce phones as inexpensively as the 3rd parties making phone for their competitors.

John Hume does this in South Africa. He's got 800 - 1000 rhinos that he's bred in captivity. They're all de-horned by a process that doesn't hurt the animals as the horns get large enough to harvest. He's got a huge stockpile of sustainably harvested rhino horn, and nobody will let him legally sell any of it. It's idiotic. Of course, if they let these people sell manufactured horn and they don't let him sell his farmed horn, that'll be even more idiotic.

Should [scientists][writers of FOSS] be more responsible for [communicating their results][providing useful documentation] directly to the public? Or should this role be left to [science journalists][random wiki editors]?

Seems like about the same question.

And, when Nokia's market leader with an anonymous CEO, you could franchise "the anonymous CEO" and make trillions!

A million? I wonder how many of those have the Comcast router in a Faraday cage while a different router is broadcasting the Comcast BSSID as part of a home credit card harvesting scheme.

Blackphone's PrivatOS runs lots of Android programs, but I don't think it loses its niche market because it also provides a level of security that Android phones don't. Sailfish could similarly maintain a niche group of users by providing them more direct control over the hardware than they can get from Android phones. Considering the size of the global population, the number of people who care can be a tiny percentage, but still be large enough to keep Jolla in business.

I wonder if there's trouble further up the supply chain. It seems to me that shops and dealers already have a lot of inventory that is incompatible between models. For DC voltage, I wouldn't think 36V or even 54V would pose much of an electrocution hazard except maybe to someone with a pacemaker. It might make bigger sparks. I could see miniature circuit breakers instead of automotive fuses. Higher voltage also means less susceptibility to problems caused by the oxide layer that develops on mating surfaces at connection points.

Sure, but when do we get 36V lithium batteries to replace the 12V lead batteries in the IC cars? Why do only EV's get the benefits of lighter weight, higher voltage batteries?