There are plenty of people in parts of the USA where this is a fact of life already. They rent everything including their clothes.
IMHO, this is unsustainable in the long term.
Will every store be a 'company store'? Probably.
Do you want the likes of Elon Muck to own everything in the world and you pay him (or people like him) tithes for everything you need in life?
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

Sixteen Tons is a good glimpse of this future.

Don't forget the 50+ years they will need to pay off their student debt especially if they have been to an Ivy League place of learning.

make that WILL drive them elsewhere. With a looming recession, IT spending will be cut to the bone if not hacked off at the knee. No company will want to be raped like this when their bean counters are literally counting every bean.
I am sure that some companies will bend over and take it for just as long as it takes them to move their virtualisation platform to something else. After year 1, I fully expect the VMWare customer base to shrink rapidly.
Broadcom could come to rue this purchase.

I'm in the UK and 30 miles from central London and I've never heard of them until today.

That's probably a good reason why they are likely to go TITSUP very soon.

Homelessness is a problem the world over. The Good Ole Boys in Tennessee have made it illegal. They'll send you to jail.
So... take your pick. Have a tent city or have the taxpayers fund their stay in jail (for years)?
Please tell us what you would like?
No doubt some Rep State will soon legislate the return of the Workhouse. "Hard times" ahead.

The operative word in your post is 'can'. There is a world of difference between 'can' and 'will' and 'do'.
With so many managers delighting in the fine art of Micro Management (sic) they need to see you working when they want not when you want to work.
With the inherently distributed nature of FOSS development, the pandemic was for most teams, BAU.
Yes, close source projects can run in a distributed mode but many can't as was shown by the upheavals of the pandemic. I personally know of five projects that totally stalled while they went back to the drawing board and reorganised their processes to allow them to work in a distributed manner. Two of those projects failed because of the micromanagement that was imposed on them by people who should know better.
Hopefully, the days of being measured by 'bums on seats' are over for good. With my current gig, I know that I'll never 'go into the office' as it is 6,000 miles (and a big ocean) away from me and I've given up flying. It clearly works as my contract has been renewed for another 7 months (6 months plus a one month vacation that I've had planned since 2019 and was postponed in 2020 and 2021).

Explains it all. AMZN will then know what those other retailers are selling and move in on their business.
Don't say that you have not been warned. Those who dance with the devil will get burned sooner rather than later.

Original [insert product name that MS bought here] at the time was ahead of competition until M$ decided to fuck it up.
now its moot

I'm sure that many of us here can list the tools that were good but are now mere memories since MS bought them.

Two things can happen with this app.

1) the Amazon users will develop a code for all the banned words.
OR
2) Like 'Truth Social', it will be devoid of variety. Nothing but corporate drivel where comments are censored and offenders sacked on the spot.

Welcome to the Bezos world of autocracy.

slagging them off at every opportunity is it a surprise?
Trump can be made to rant about windmills so easily. He says that they don't work. The man is so sad.

As for Marjorie 'Jewish Space Laser's Taylor Green... Telling the Transportation Secretary to basically G-F-himself and his husband is not helping the Renewables cause. She also wants more... lots more US Oil drilling.

Then there are the NIMBIES.

The USA is rapidly becoming an environmental pariah.
Meanwhile... the conflict in Ukraine is making previously sluggish counties focus on moving to renewables at a much faster rate.

God help the USA if the GQP take control of both houses in November.

I guess that the solar panels that I have on my roof (6 of them) that has produced 175kWh of electricity so far this month are a mirage then?
We do have sun even at 51N.

Apps that allow me to charge my car and pay for it using the networks systems don't pay fees on IOS and Android other than the developer fee.
My bank's app is the same. I can do all my banking and Apple gets a big fat $0.00 from me.

It is the European Commission that is NOT elected. The people on it are appointed by their governments.
The European Parliament IS Elected by the people across Europe. It can and does pass laws.

The commission is very powerful. Too powerful in my view but that does not count since we stupidly (IMHO) voted to leave the EU.

I'm sure that Apple will have something to say about that?

I use both a laptop and a tablet. Each has its own uses but my worst experience has been trying to touch type on a tablet (not on screen). As a published author entering text is where it is at and being able to work on the move means a laptop is my tool of choice.

Maker of new product talks up the performance and people aren't wowed?
This is news?