Oh please, Eddy, shut the fuck up.

And the hum of their Rascal scooters.

Phones suck in ways that make them suck, not in any specific way by design. Quality is shit because it's shit borne of laziness and cheapness and not the extra amount of money they'd have to spend planning out their shittiness. Cheap shit phones have no reason to try to upsell you because those are two different markets. The shit market and the poser market. And never the twain shall meet.

What IS interesting though is the razor thin differences in the quality between the shit phones and the more expensive phones. More expensive phones spend all their money on 'me too' features. Not quality.

Or simply call for the state version of nationalization, tax it 100% and give away the cars for free.

If you want to sell a Tesla in Calistan then it has to be built in Calistan by illegal aliens.

Just in case you were wondering, most of the layoffs are in the Czech republic.

which is the cash industry for most of the UN member states

Google play has scads of 'free apps' that are either severely crippled or time limited. Moreover, is it a 'free' app when there's popups telling you to 'remove advertising' eg. buy the "pro" version?

Most of MS's 18,000 terminations are in the Czech Republic and Finland per Nokia. So most people are in fact getting a little bent out of shape, ideologically, over something that won't affect them. That's why.

If you were an IBM staffer in the mid 90's you were about 5 levels from the CEO. Today doing the same job you're at least 11

There are fewer than 90,000 US employees. The vast bulk of all IBM employees is in India. And as far as those 90K US employees is concerned IBM is phenomenally overstaffed with middle managers and 'program managers' who's only job is to report on the status of status reporting reporting via enormous spreadsheets and multi hundred slide Powerpoints. IBM is a company that wants to cut costs to prosperity and eventually they will have no workers and only a few hundred lawyers and accountants reporting to executives and they will finally get their way.

IBM research appears to be little more than a marketing arm of their high end sales organization. Dazzle the suits with bullshit about Jeopardy winning super computers so that you can sell a super computer to someone. Anyway, IBM's core technologies are being sold off because it's more profitable to buy someone else's smaller company, gut it of its intellectual property and toss the dead husk in the trash. This month they slap the word 'cloud' on everything. Next month it's something else.

Like all large tech companies, MS does not give a shit about what you or anyone else thinks, wants, needs, feels, says or does. MS does what is good for MS senior management. Like all large tech and and IT companies, MS is a firm run by pirates for their own sole benefit. That which is good for political turf and compensation is good. Everything else is the enemy. Lost in this weeks announcement of bloodletting is that the new CEO decapitated all his rivals and awarded his flunkies.

The organizational beast survives for the benefits of its rulers. That is all.

That's really the only thing you're talking about.

It's neither fish nor fowl. It's too small to use for more than 5 minutes and it's too big to be easily portable unless you're a woman with a handbag. The only plausible good use to put to an 8" tablet is an industry or business specific app designed for a single purpose. Think, ticket sales, restaurant management, TSA security checks, mobile cash register, that sort of thing. Where the app is designed to one thing.