My guess, without looking at the company financials, is that it is a bit of both. They benefitted so much from the COVID work environment, that they were always going to drop down from that high, plus the entire market is losing value. This will be a combination of general market sentiment and a correction of a temporary overvaluation thanks to the unsustainable growth due to COVID.

The "company value" is based on what the market thinks. At the start of COVID, growth will have outpaced expectations, so the value shot up, probably to more than the company was actually worth in the long run. As people go back to the office and usage drops, the market sees the drop in revenue and reacts accordingly (even though they should have known from the start that the COVID spike was going to be a temporary glitch). Combined with a general drop in the market, that is probably all you are seeing, not any operational failure that affects the long term prospects of the company.

This.

If your customers have manufacturing in China, you have no control over where your parts end up.
If you don't, then you probably still have no control, and very low sales volume.

You're missing the fact that USB-C connectors can be bought on the open market, and certification is optional (though you can't use any USB trademarks without it), while Apple requires certification. The lab fees for certification dwarf the membership fees in both cases if you are making more than one product.

Not less, the government just wants to take its cut.

This is not remotely the same as having every transaction you ever did linked.

It`s not the same as cash, because once they have your identity, they have all your transactions to mine for more data as well.

They are not abandoning location tracking, just the ability of the user being tracked to get something useful out of that tracking for themselves.

Also the optical quality of the lens can not be compensated for in software. The tiny surface area of smartphone lenses makes them very susceptable to the tiniest of flaws.

Was this what it took for IBM to get their last OS/2 customer to migrate to Linux so they can make the support team redundant?

The issue here is that Mastercard and Visa have a duopoly on contactless payments. In order to get cheaper rates on contactless payments, the retailers are having to agree to put all transactions on dual standard cards (most banks in Australia issue bank cards which use the banks' own EFTPOS standard as well as either Mastercard or Visa debit), even if they are made by inserting the card rather than contactless. EFTPOS IIRC charges a low fixed rate per transaction, something that got it widespread acceptance long before Visa and Mastercard graduated from carbon paper imprints and got into debit as well as credit cards. Visa and Mastercard charge a percentage, which costs retailers a lot more on larger transactions.

The direction for upgrading single packages seems to be snap. The A/B system images would be minimal base images and any applications you want installed are installed as snap packages on a seperate partition, so they can be updated separately (possibly also via A/B updates). Basically the system should consist of 4 partitions - system A, system B, apps, data.

Or maybe don't make network filesystems a boot dependency if you are not in a high availability managed thin client environment.

They were already basically a subsidiary of Foxconn.

Why would you build a house that can fall down when you can live in a cave?