It's fucking organised crime.. and so yes, the government does need to step in to sort it out. Also, there were a number of petitions signed by a bunch of people sent to Uk parliament asking them to sort it out.. This might not be the final fix, and banks are protesting, because 'fraud will increase' and they will need to cover that.. but this shit is out of control and it needs to start somewhere..

Kuiper is the project name that got it all up and running. Now that it is live, Amazon Leo is the Product name

Your mom asked me to fork her distro.. but I told her To Linux with the rest of the slashdotter moms

Sounds like your wife should be commenting on this forum. She appears to be the smart one

I am a 3rd world minority.. but I picked myself up by the bootstraps, worked long and hard to make enough money to get an iPhone and it lasted me years and years and years.. turns out the higher price upfront was more than worth it over time. All my fellow 3rd worlders with their cracked screens and 'free open platform' though.. probably not as much ROI..

I think the higher cost was justified by the better quality of applications on IOS (historic 2010-2018) Nothing really to do with your poverty phone

The UK sold ARM, you know the chip design that runs almost everything these days, to Japanese company SoftBank about 10 years ago. Pretty short sighted in my opinion.

If one of the two were a UK company, they would have sold it off to SoftBank for the tidy profit of one millyun dollars a few years back

There is a 3rd option. HarmonyOS Next and Huawawei .. this will grow out of China, probably other parts of Asia and Africa. Because it's cheap and Chinese products are good value for money

If you block your kids from these platforms, they just get ridiculed and bullied by their peers for not having a Snap, TikTok etc. So your kids are damned either way. Society needs to change. We know alcohol is bad for kids and we have laws to protect them from it. Same thing should happen with this.

At least we have the autonomy to put ourselves into debt.. /s

Looks like the App has been removed from the App Store too. I had a monthly subscription that has also disappeared... guess I won't be reinstating that if this shit show manages to reverse itself. I was spending too much time on that platform anyway.. it's all become filled with American politics and hate anyway.. guess a break will be good..

When you see how Live Nation are involved in the entire supply chain of concerts, at least in the UK. They need to ban 'surge pricing' on the day of the opening sale and ticket resales only at face value. The 2000% profit from resellers is driving this Cartel behaviour

Comparison with S24 Ultra Single-core performance: The A17 Pro leads by a substantial marginâ"roughly 35â"40%, which directly impacts general tasks, app responsiveness, and user-perceived snappiness. â Multi-core performance: The A17 Pro still holds an edge of around ~10%, though the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is strong in workloads that can efficiently use its eight cores. â Graphics & AI: A17 Proâ(TM)s custom GPU supports advanced features like ray-tracing. Its NPU delivers top-tier AI performance (35 TOPS), giving it a clear advantage in machine learning workloads and energy-efficient AI processing. â Process and Efficiency: The A17 Pro uses a first-gen 3 nm node, likely offering better efficiency and thermal control compared to the Snapdragonâ(TM)s 4 nm design.

If you consider the number of days you end up using the phone in its lifetime.. you are probably paying about 50c a day for it.. seems like a good deal