My meter is granular down to 5 minute intervals.

We also don't pay for your work clothes, that you only need for work. Nor the gas, maintenance, insurance, etc. for the car to get to work. Nor the computer glasses you need to see the screen.

This is what it looks like.

You paid them for the right to hold it in your possession until which time they decide to brick it.

Ever

If you don't want the ads, don't consume their content. It's that easy.

There are useful forms of advertising. I want to know if a new mom & pop restaurant opens down the street from me. A sign on the side of the road for example letting me know they just opened.

I also think it is perfectly fine to offer free content in exchange for a few seconds of my time to watch an advertisement. This is simply a different payment method. Time rather than a currency exchange.

The issue with advertising is that current marketers seem to have no limits or boundaries in which they are not willing to cross. This is just another example of where pure capitalism is failing us. We can't tell monopolies like Facebook or Google "no" or otherwise limit their reach. Government regulation is a must.

this period in time.

Because I spent all night on my Commodore 64 when my parents thought I was asleep. I failed several classes because I refused to do homework.

Today I've had an incredible 35 year career in technology up to and including being a CIO. I own three separate business, property rental, an ecommerce site, and an arcade bar. If you ask me, I would tell you that school failed me, I didn't fail school. They wanted me to spend 7 hours at school and then two more at home doing busywork (home work) on subjects that mostly have zero relevance to my life today. That's bullshit. I learned far more using that C64 than I'd ever have learned doing that waste of time homework.

and have no idea how it actually works.

Backtracking in 3.. 2.. 1..

Terminator may come true next.

Oooof. You aren't very bright are you. World is getting stupider by the day.

I don't know. Are they?

Oh... you've actually seen people using them! So... yes.

Not to support Apple, but this is super silly argument. Apple does not and never has made their own displays.