Morbius is Sony.
Aquaman is DC.

The point here is the 30% apple tax on any revenue from within the app.
Not sure what the "cut" SHOULD be, but 30% just for distribution of a well-known app, which is living on different platforms is INSANE for such a large corporation.

The exact model for apple store (which is a value-add to the iPhone as well, and those are sold at decent profit as well) is for me quite unclear, but 30% of a billion-dollar profit margin is enough to launch your own fully functioning app store with ALL costs surrounding it covered.

That is the point, not EU protectionism or some such.
Otoh, I live 4 km from the CEO of spotify, so might be a bit biased ;)

This is honestly an issue with a company needing to integrate loads of different interests over a huge conglomerate.

Everything they do need to be globally safe or it will cost too much in other places.

Of course Apple needs to keep it's head down in China.
Not only is it a HUUUGE market* but it's also where they manufacture most of their stuff.
Prices would probably be 30%-50% larger without China and setting up a logistical chain handling all that manufacturing could take decades, which even apple couldn't eat up the cost off.

So, apple-branded media company NEEDS to accept China, or at least, they need to as long as Americans don't lash back.

Otoh, large media companies are already very afraid of China, so, well, the issue is probably all international businesses.

* (second only to US and Europe) https://www.statista.com/stati...

Nature can absolutely recover.
It could take thousands to millions of years though.

Just an interesting example, grass is about 55 million years old, so dinosaurs didnâ(TM)t even have grass.

Nature changes, and we are a part of it.

Will we survive?
Probably.
Can we sustain a large population?
Possibly, but we might not, and the road to a sustainable level can be quite horrible.

This issue is not about all trees dying, itâ(TM)s about the current generation in the hot regions needing to adapt over a short period of time, which always means loads of trees dying.
But yeah, assuming the temperature stabilises they would probably adapt in a few hundred or thousand years.

Mao did realize the horrors inflicted by five-year plans.
The Chinese even tried to warn other communist states about the inherent dangers of the system.

The one case of it working as intended was Stalins method.
But his intention was to let loads of people die to promote industry above all else.
It was still horrific as all other attempts.
Just saying that it worked and turned Russia into an industrial power-house when it began as a poor agrarian society.

The Chinese most definitely are driven by greed, even more so than many other cultures.
And that is the basis of capitalism, using the drive to improve material wealth for yourself and your family as the basis for production.

Pretty much every current government on earth is backed by a private sector using a capitalistic model.
This most definitely includes China as well as Russia.

There are some differences in how much the state regulates and nudges along the market, but capitalism is definitely in effect.

The state provides projects which it believes will have long-term gain and are to large-scale for private actors (infrastructure mostly), which is mostly the same as in western democracies.

It's still a totalitarian nightmare, but that is more about how the state is governed, not how the economics are.

Edge is based on chromium =P

Have you played team-based games with random people?
The levels of toxicity is extreme in many games and it's not just trash talking, it's basically just unintelligent screaming drowning out any ability to co-ordinate in the chat.

Someone sees me at a place?
No issue.

Someone follows me everywhere I go, stand outside my apartment all day long and follow me when I go out?
That sounds like a stalker to me.

So, you're missing the point.

So, exactly like netflix then?

The question is really quite simple.
Do you believe in science?

It doesn't really matter if you do, it works REGARDLESS.

So, basically the question is, are you ignorant?

That is not children.
Those are fetuses (fetusi?).

1-4 number of screens at the same time, depending on how much you pay (you also get higher res the more you pay).
At least in Sweden.

They are supposed to be used in the same household though, which is the thing which is generally seen as mooching when families whom have moved apart still use only one login.

The more you use an SSD, the faster it goes bad.
So it's not an ideal thing to do.