On people's personal electronic gadgets and home appliances, especially maps on smartphones, if I am driving somewhere and I need to glance at my map to see something pertenant to my driving I don't want advertising getting in the way,

advertisers already own TV and Broadcast radio, billboards in cities and highways, I think the advertising business need to learn their boundaries because they keep pushing advertising where it does not belong

They have all that money allowcated to them so they have work extra hard to embezzle all that money somehow so they come up with all this impossible to achieve projects as shells to cancel later so it looks good on the accountants books

We've noticed that since the mid 1990s

NEVER trust big tech to keep your data
(if you need to keep it top secret)

more free movies & music for the poor
I encourage the piracy of movies & music & software, the only people that will bother to pirate that stuff is poor because people with disposable income will just buy it and the poor should not be making the rich richer

I been all over the southwest USA and plenty of places with no cellular coverage and the only map on my phone that worked was organic maps

Doesn't matter if you use online maps or downloaded offline maps you still need gps, what if you were way out where cellular data was not available then a downloaded map would be beneficial

I am sure if you were starving you could pick a few kernels of corn out of a turd too

Install Organic Maps, download only what you need for your locale and Organic Maps even works offline so if you lose cellular data it will still work

Because parents are neglecting to manage their children properly?

For both domestically manufactured products and imported, even domestically made products will have to import material, 50 years of global trade can not be erased in a couple years, I don't think Trump gives a darn about where a product is made he just wants to extract as much wealth as he possibly can

The USA started out as a federal republic but has since degenerated into a kleprocratic neo-feudalist banana-republic run by a criminal mafia oligarchy

I am as big a Linux fanboy as anyone so if I can dualboot macOS and a Linux distro it would be a major selling point to me, I never owned a MacBook so it would want to keep the stock macOS on it and dual boot with a Linux flavor

Darl? Is that you? Hiding behind an Anonymous Coward post, shame on you!!?

I remember well, and wasn't it discovered that Microsoft was the deep pockets that financed Darl McBride's attorneys? And the evidence SCO using found to be frivolous and open source or just some common code used on almost everything so it ended up being laughable and Darl was an embarrassment to all things high tech

Pushing an established system out to put another in its place is like digging a giant boulder out of a garden, it won't be easy and will take more than one push just don't give up and eventually the boulder will be rolled away and the spot will be clear for the garden