"So when Microsoft continually abused their monopolistic control of 90% of the PC market, they were let off the hook"

Apple has not actually been punished yet. They still have the opportunity to pay a bribe.

"just allow side loading like mac os and alot of issues go away."

"Not really. If you aren't on the App Store your sales will take a hit."

Uh, you think the sales of apps which most users cannot now load on their devices will go down?

"Android makers are whining when they already own the biggest slice of the pie?"

They do not in the US, which is what this story is about.

IDGAF, I scarcely use gimp any more due to the interface still being shit even after they allegedly improved it.

I'm a VZ prepaid customer in the US and I get unlimited text.

While I accept your point, I feel it necessary to add that the problems you are referring to, excessive cost and poor quality, are American problems. The rest of the civilised world has low cost or free healthcare and doctors that aren't ground into apathy by the capitalist machine.

So the rest of the world would like to be cautious because we like what we have. Unlike Americans we do have something to lose.

It's not less capable than any old M chip.

Got any actual points?

Hurr durr both sides durr hurr

Don't go back and forth with them. Just go to your credit card company. They need to learn.

Luckily little requires it so far. Unfortunately GNOME is going all in which means GTK is going to become a problem. So now if you want to avoid the fuckery you have to find Qt based replacements for that stuff. Sigh.

Take all studies like this with a grain of salt. A doctor doesn't diagnose a patient by reading a case study. They do it by talking to the patient, examining them, deciding what tests to order, etc. This is a contrived comparison that has little connection to how doctors actually work.

"the problem (with Android) is that browser based password managers barely work for anything outside of the browser due to how poorly Android is designed to allow this to function."

This is one of the few parts of Firefox on Android that has been reliable for me...

I wouldn't describe it that way. After four generations of the console market, they've never been better than a distant number 2. Here's a list of lifetime sales for the console market. The original Xbox sold only 24 million, compared to 160 million for the PS2 it competed against. The Xbox 360 did better at 84 million, but that still left it behind the Wii and PS3. Then the Xbox One went backward, selling only 58 million vs. 117 million for the PS4, and the Series X/S is unlikely to sell even that many by the end of this generation.

Given the billions they've put into the business, it's hard to see that as a success.

Microsoft is a platform company first, a software company second, and a hardware company as a distant third. It's not surprising if they decide to get out of the gaming hardware business and focus on creating the software for other companies' hardware.

"No way a million hunter and gatherers had any significant impact other than an occasional wildfire, which we still do by mistake today."

Dumb take which ignores known reality.

Natives in the US managed these lands sustainably for millennia using fire. They both expanded the plains to make room for more bison and maintained the health of forests by clearing brush... With fire.

I think Microsoft did the math and figured out that the money it costs to make a console has been increasing, not least because of security. And then it gets hacked anyway and doesn't achieve its goals as a result. Why bother? Needing exclusives to bring people to your console when you could do cross platform instead and not even need a console... Plus with the EU forcing platforms open it's only a matter of time before it happens to consoles. No console, no problem. Microsoft can simply lobby for the other platforms to be forced open.