The answer is simple: Because no one wants it.

Regardless of what happened long ago, when the tech was all new and no one was concerned about these things, the market today has chosen positions decisions.

Google and Facebook don't really make anything. They have to try to profit from users' data. Apple makes devices so they are able to profit directly from users, from the sale of devices and from money spent in their ecosystem.

I know which one I want to do business with.

New fundraising idea - go around barking donation orders into other peoples' Alexa devices :P

The broadest similes are certainly to be found on the faces of the taxi companies and their unions today

Yeah, it'll be great when every car is making that BEEP BEEP BEEP sound everywhere

Have to wait to see what Netflix's next rate increase looks like before we know how much money will be in play I suppose.

Well, that's definitely a gain.

Even then, fragmentation and poor support models are still the primary problem with Android, and the main reason not to use the platform. Same as it ever was.

There's a growing trend of /. mods not RTFA before they write TFS

Just wait. The broke hipsters and millennials don't know yet that 2002, I mean, 2020 will be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop (tm)

And why can't they use IP information to ascertain a general location?

Looks like my years of Spotify premium membership will be coming to an end.

Exactly.

In the city where I live they're trying to ban drive-thru lanes altogether, since they want to forcibly take away people's cars but haven't figured out how to do it yet, so even the jobs that are working to obsolete the McJobs might themselves become obsolete

I was suspicious when I saw it was named "MyPayRollHR". It sounds like one of those counterfeiting stores on Amazon.

MyPayRollHR
UPayHRyay
happyHRPayStuff
HrRainbowBlissNow
QualityPayRollThings4U

Wait until we have free college for everyone!