Who the fuck leases a PHONE.

I think that's the question we should be asking. Just buy the thing. If you can't afford to buy the thing, then get a loan/card to buy the thing.

And a phone just shouldn't be that expensive or difficult to maintain or break so often that you can't do either.

You can keep your vanity plate names and waste all the money you want on them.

Nobody cares any more. They just google or bookmark you.

Yeah, I mean, who would call a website slash dot, because it then becomes w w w dot slash dot dot org....

From TFS:

Can't manage it yourself? Pay a company for support, or "just use Debian or Yocto as their security practices are amazing."

They suck a huge amount of money out of the court system and then We The People who paid for that don't even get to find out what the outcome was? The courts sure as fuck don't work for us.

No, it isn't. We know that's not the explanation because historically, Apple did NOT give you tools and free software other companies charged for. That was not true until Mac OS X, when they finally gave away a development environment. Prior to that you had to buy a compiler from a third party, as Apple didn't even offer one.

Apple did give you hypercard for a while with classic MacOS versions, but they failed to execute on that and it eventually died. It might have been popular, but all the extensions you needed to make it do anything interesting were commercial (like you couldn't even send serial characters) so it was inferior to BASIC which you got with DOS, Windows, Amiga, Atari... well, pretty much from everyone but Apple.

Which Apple are you thinking of?

I don't disagree that your example is somewhat applicable, but a more mundane example we all face is actual "credit scores" which are becoming more and more closely akin to China's "social credit" system. If your credit score is bad, it affects your ability to get transportation and housing, and even employment. Credit scores shouldn't actually exist, they don't do what they say they do, because you can have no ability to pay anything whatsoever and your credit score can be huge based on your prior activity and ability to pay.

The users will (for the most part) need someone to interpret the information for them, but that's been true of pretty much everything since before the industrial revolution. Everything is complicated now.

Which is why, as many people pointed out at the time the root servers were opened up to all these new gTLDs, that this is just a license for the successful registrars running each gTLD to print money at the expense of everyone with a brand they have to protect. In most cases, they were absolutely right on the money; .biz being the classic example, almost immediately becoming a wretched hive of online scum and villainy most mail server operators equally rapidly blocked outright. (I am curious though; does anyone actually try and host a legit .biz domain these days? I don't think I've ever come across one.)

I'll give you, there are some pretty cool options for host/domain names under .web, especially with an arachnid theme or things like "web.web.web", that might become useful and popular for some groups, but apart from those - which Verisign, being Verisign, will no doubt have a special procurement process for to maximise their investment - the rest will almost certainly be parked/redirected brandname protection, a vast number of of scammer sites, and a handful of vanity projects that 99.99% of people probably won't even know about, and probably wouldn't care about if they did.

None of which changes the fundamental point that we seldom care about URLs any more. We click on links in apps, webpages, emails, etc., ideally having done some kind of due diligence to make sure the link is hopefully OK, or just cut and paste from the browser bar to put it into something we are writing. Functionally, "bankofamerica.com" is no different from "bankofamerica.web", or any other gTLD/ccTLD they might care to suffix it with, and it wouldn't make any difference to their service if all the other TLDs went away, unless they wanted to do some kind of content localisation based on a ccTLD rather than some other approach to achieve that.

Have you bothered to hit the bay, get the service manual for your vehicle, and try to find out what it would take?

So from 2001-2014 I guess? 2001 is when Mac OS X came out and 2014 is when a non-crippled free Visual Studio came out.

The RDF really did a number on you, huh?

Yes:

To complain is a verb that means to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment about a situation. It involves stating that something is wrong, unfair, or inadequate.

Thanks, dictionary.com! I wish everyone was smart enough to use you!

He was wrong, and NeXTStep is an admission that he was wrong, especially since it became Mac OS X. And if you believe he was right, which you clearly do because you gave this as an example of what he did right, then you're wrong too.

If Apple would let people turn off what they're not using, it wouldn't be a problem.

Dangerous like FSD driving you into a wall or under a tractor trailer and disabling itself a fraction of a second before the crash so Tesla can claim it's not their fault? Shill harder.