The point being, the console manufacturers will soon stop physical media altogether, issuing game consoles that don't even have drives, and the PC side of things will go the same direction.

From that point on, it'll be download or nothing, you pay the price they dictate and you pay it directly to them, and you'll not be buying the game - you'll be paying to rent it for as long as they decide you should be able to.

Most feel it won't be worth trying to compete with Amazon Marketplace, which is filled with overseas suppliers selling goods that are often counterfeit and always being offered at prices they can't match.

Consumers that are online are online because they are price sensitive or because they can't find what they want locally. A small business doesn't typically compete on price or selection, they compete on relationship, service, presenting a unique local option, or a desire for a few consumers to do business in their community. Amazon isn't the place for them.

A law like this will not really help customers. The cable companies will just make the a la carte channels prohibitively expensive, or they'll charge fees on top enough to prevent people from getting only the channels they want on the cheap.

They're clinging to an outmoded business model. Consumers are making their choice to move away from cable, and their only hope is to win in the courts to prevent consumers having any choices beyond the 2 or 3 they offer.

I sure hope so... they're a scourge

A sombrero, obviously.

The same thing happened at a place where I once worked. A large group of people had a Cinco De Mayo lunch where they brought in stereotypical American "Mexican" food, played mariachi music, wore sombreros and ponchos, and wore fake mustaches.

This went on for years until everyone was shocked when a contractor pointed out that the costumes and tropes being employed were entirely inappropriate for a workplace. The event ended because of HR intervention, and everyone started grumbling about how one person who was too easily offended ruined it for everyone. Nevermind the fact that *it was actually offensive*.

The fact that someone is an SJW or reported something that others found inoffensive does not mean it was not offensive, or racist, or whatever term you want to use.

A few ounces of common sense will keep a person out of trouble. Blaming "SJWs" for the lack of any is not going to help you.

Facebook is worried about the impact this might have on users' privacy.

That's cute.

For me the main problem with the business model is that there are no barriers to entry in the market. Essentially anyone who owns any sort of a property could set up and become a competitor in short order. It's one of these ideas that, if it ever took off, would still leave very limited growth potential for investors.

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Certainly there's no argument about whether android sells a lot of cheap handsets around the world. The question is whether Apple's hardware sales are going to start to sag vs. the competition anytime soon. They will not.

People aren't going to stop buying Apple hardware anytime soon. To the perception of most, no one else makes a whole ecosystem of devices that are as beautiful, simple, and reliable for people who don't care to learn anything complex. (That's most everyone.)

To most consumers Apple devices are rock solid, can be used much longer than a Windows device, and integrate seamlessly with all their other iDevices. No average consumer is going to replace all their household's phone, laptop, and tablets as a set. They like the whole iCloud ecosystem, and as soon as they move off the platform they'll start having interoperability complexity that no one wants to deal with.

Regardless of what we neckbeards think, Apple is in the catbird seat and they aren't going to be knocked off it anytime soon. Alphabet and Windows' co-platform missed the boat on hardware and will always be running second until the game changes again.