Three reasons: Firstly Google control an ecosystem beyond their device directly impacting Epic's business dealings with 3rd parties, while Apple only controls Apple devices impacting dealings with themselves.

Secondly: Because you're making shit up, Apple got their arse handed to them by Epic and was forced to make changes in the App Store.

Thirdly: Because none of this has anything to do with the ability to load apps making sideloading irrelevant.

You won't ever understand what's going on if everything you know is based only on reading headlines. Judgements run for 100s of pages with well reasoned legal points. They are also quite public. If you want to understand this case you just need to sit down and do some reading. It doesn't boggle the mind at all if you actually read what is going on.

Company who is estimated to have lost $16bn net over its operating life and is projected to double those losses next year eyes wildly insane overvaluation.

Actually it seems the consequences were every bit as everyone expected which is why there is a move to work to reverse it in the first place. By the way there was good reason to do what was done. Since the Nexperia takeover a *LOT* of shit has been uncovered about how China was undermining western chip production.

They literally aren't running JIT systems. That's why they have reserves, that's why they were able to continue producing vehicles for months despite chip shipments being halted thanks to the Nexperia fight. The fact they don't use JIT is right there in the summary. There's only so many warehouses you can store stuff in.

ASML has zero impact on the car chip industry except maybe the vision computers in Teslas. Car chips are made on processes 2 orders of magnitude larger.

This does however have a lot to do with another Dutch manufacturer, Nexperia which is the actual centre of the current chip crisis (and no they don't use ASML gear).

Isn't all that Facebook is today just a bunch of "creators" posting to bot accounts?

That would leave everyone dumber. There are other portables with Windows that don't have the problem, showing clearly Windows isn't the problem, but rather the implementation of 3rd party drivers is. As usual.

I'm sure Christ has already returned, he was just probably deported for trying to do some construction work without a green card.

There's plenty of demand for it. The problem is cycling infrastructure doesn't exist. If I can't get from a to b using unified infrastructure then it isn't infrastructure, my safety isn't improved if the bike path ends and I'm forced to cycle on the road to make the next leg.

Now on the flip side you can look to any country that actually has developed proper end to end infrastructure that it becomes insanely heavily used. The demand is there, but there's only demand for proper solutions, not designs by politicians attempting to murder people.

Type an IP address in the search bar.

Nah it's only dangerous when politicians are actively trying to kill you by pretending that spray painting a little bicycle logo on a street is called "infrastructure".

Yes. And the dedicated app provides a control interface (remote media play) that works far better than using your phone via Bluetooth.

Uah an extra shitty device and one that doesn't work as well with real time traffic and has shitty mapping to boot? Why? I mean this isn't a contest for finding the worst possible solution.

Not sure what you think you mean by this, but if your infotainment system breaks Android Auto won't do shit either. All you're promoting is having 2 devices to break instead of one.

AAOS may be, the OP was talking about maps. Maps are as current as any Android device, as they are dependent on the App. The core system updates are, just like a phone, but many Android internal components including internal security updates are pushed for play services (Google decoupled these from vendor control a long time ago which allows them to push out something like a security fix in HTML rendering by patching that particular apk).

You're working with Volvo/Polestar, why not look at the list of apps installed, pay particular attention to those from Google. Hint: Most of it is core OS services, and they are managed by Google via the Play Store as has been the case on Android proper for most of this decade.