The customers in the EU have made it clear what their preferences are, all things being equal, and things are rarely equal. ICE (and various HEV variants) will be the right choice for some for a long long time.

Apple's 30% should be considered and prosecuted as a usary practice.

That said, no is forced to pay it, as no one is being forced to use an Apple device. Those that choose to be part of the problem and pay Apple's taxes should have that option.

Business continuity is a critical part of any serious larger organization, and the board needs to have a plan in the case the leadership has a bus event. While the kernel did have various plans, formalization is just part of the proper process of the board. While some such plans are not public (we never saw Berkshire Hathaway's plans, but Warren Buffet said they existed (although i am going to guess they changed over the years, as Charlie Munger was no longer a viable candidate)), they still must exist.

It will come down to the precise patent claims (and what Apple is doing). Apple has a long history of finding ways to do something equivalent that manages to skirt the exact language of the patent claims so it is not infringing the actual patent. And Apple has a deep bench of IP lawyers to make those claims they did not infringe.

You location will vary, but in some parts of the country I have experienced that Amazon and FedEX have been moving to use electric vans for at least part of their fleets (UPS and USPS are also moving towards EVs, but not yet so widely seen, at least by me). Last mile deliveries (in medium to high density locations) can be a sweet spot for electric delivery vans (the miles driven per day are modest, and they can charge (level 3) at the warehouse/depot overnight).

Mine is bigger than yours?

Only fools (and there are many in the AI hype machine ecosystem) do not understand that the next gen Amazon, Google, and nVidia chips will end up better than these Microsoft chips. Each generation gets better than the previous generation.

The best meeting is no meeting, and Gemini should refuse to schedule dumb-ass meetings (now that would be an AI service I could actually embrace).

And with enough energy, it is possible to convert lead into gold.

While many hubs understand and can deal with weather (Chicago), a lot do not have the same capabilities (Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas). That makes cancelling flights before they get stranded just prudent for the airlines.

And don't forget they are also buying eventbrite (where they will, most likely, increase fees and add in additional monetization schemes).

Intel does use TSMC (notably for their discrete GPUs, and to deal with chip cadence), but primarily uses it's own fabs. At this point, no advanced lithography fab has any measurable excess capability.

All fabs (TSMC, Intel, Samsung, etc.) have a fixed number of wafers they can produce per hour. Most of those wafers already have customer contracts (and most of Intel's fabs customers are Intel itself, but it is still a customer). Building new fabs takes time (and billions of dollars), and most companies do not build until they have predictions and commitments of future customers (an entirely new fab that has no customers can be a $20B white elephant). The AI demand (bubble) was not predicted with enough advanced notice to allow the fabs to be built. Existing fab customers will have some options as to what designs the fab delivers, but it is a zero sum game (if you want more Xeon server class processors, you have to deliver fewer something else's; that is partially why (especially) consumer memory prices are going through the roof, as the fab customers are redirecting their wafers to the AI demand).

These are sales droids. Would you really want them doing a Linux port?

And what does "win" mean?

Every investigative agency want access to everything. And their leaders will advocate for that authority (that is their job, to solve crimes). Pushed, the honest leaders (and not all are honest) making the case will admit that that implies there that means there can be no privacy for anyone. Those that want to live in a free society (and accept that some criminals will end up going free) must push back.