South Korea is a very protectionist society. I imagine the incumbents fought it tooth and nail.

It's free for what most people need. Premium is dirt cheap at $10 bucks a year if you need it. Works on everything. Open Source to boot.

For home use I know many who do everything on their phone, tablet and might have an old laptop tucked away if they really need it. I find the younger generation won't even have a laptop and might use their work computer if something needs to be done in desktop office or they need to print the odd thing off. Linux on the desktop does not matter as the desktop outside of offices is dying.

I already buy multiple services and items outside of Apple's app store. Shocking I know but e-commerce has existed before apple. I buy services from Amazon, Google, Spotify and Microsoft and yet use their paid apps/services on my iPhone.

If you like paying an extra 30% go ahead and pay through apple. In my experience if I purchase the service outside of using apple as the payment processor the developer offers cheaper prices. I want alternate payment options. I'll take the cheaper prices.

Bitwarden is great. It's open source and the premium version is only 10 dollars a year. I don't even use the premium features but pay for it anyway to support the developer.

My users could not care what OS the run as long as it has shortcuts to Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and these days Teams. If everyone is using MS Office they are going to murder you if you take it away. LibreOffice is ok but I will be the first to admit it does not hold up to MS office.

That flash client was dark times for VMware. Whoever green lit that should have been fired. They should have kept the old c# client up to date after the backlash they received until the HTML-5 client was complete.

Valve Is abandoning a Switch-Like Portable Gaming PC.

Why even use it. There are better unofficial apps on iOS and Android.

Wait...didn't google fold in France and did give in to their demands in regards to payments.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

The iPhone 6s Plus has outlasted it's contemporary the Nexus 6P, it's successor the Pixel and now just recently the Pixel 2. It will be interesting to see if it's still getting updates, even if just security, when the Pixel 3 hit's its EOS date of October 2021.

We have had mandatory unlocked phones here in Canada for a few years now and it's more convenient than you might think. Maybe people sell or give away their old phones and it's rare now to worry that the phone may be locked. You would frequently run into issues where you had to have the original owner go back to try and unlock the phone...and god help you if they were not with that carrier any longer...then you were SOL. If you were lucky it might be an android phone that you could buy an unlock code from some sketchy site online or eBay.