No support for old games is expected, especially if you plan on milking more money out of audience with remasters without risking resources on new IP.
Ps1, 2 and 3 can be emulated rather well. Ps3 is not there yet, but a lot of titles are very much playable, with added bonus of not having to buy a disk off e-bay, since sony's own PSN game library is basically a barren wasteland and I cant buy title I want even if I'm willing to pay.
Ps4 can't be amulated, as far as I know, but most of ps-exclusives will eventually end up on Steam anyway, if past evidence is anything to go by. Well, there is a bonus - for casual players - of not having to configure or install anything, but that's about it.
Then again, I'm probably a nerd.

Epic's goal is to get those 30% back. And Apple's and Google's goals are to keep those 30%. And 30% is a lot then you talk about a free-to-play game that profits billions in microtransactions, such as Fortnite. The way I see it, is that entire antitrust claim is Epic's attempt to appeal to public opinion. And public opinion can make a difference at least outside of court. Problem is, whoever rally to Epic's cause will not benefit from it, neither by having more freedom, nor by having to pay less fo Fortnite skins. I with they'd just sue each other into oblivion of bankruptcy, but both parties are too rich for that. Oh, and i don't see Apple as a monopoly. Whatever they have to offer is not something I can't live without. And there are alternatives. If people choose to pay for privelege of being locked in Apple's walled garden, they shouldn't complain. It's not like Apple is hiding this fact from either customers or developers.

As funny as it is - that's the whole point. Russian government created local storage law as a leverage to have a piece of that particular pie. They want data on their citizens in their data centers.

In Edge leaking whatever user types is probably a feature, not bug.

99.4% turnout isn't so bad. And we managed to make it even better. During last presidential elections (essentially Putin elections) certain regions had 140% turnout, according to official data. Imagine that.

They should just ban people from boarding planes. That shoud fix everything, at least to some extent. Those pesky pilots and stewardesses can be evil terrorists too.

Yes, products, not ideas. Mp3 players, PDAs and pad computers existed before Apple turned those into a cult. That said, if Apple actually created (as in pantented) ideas behind those devices, they would sue the hell out of anyone trying to do the same. Apple is really good at marketing and making people think they want their stuff.
It's not really innovation though, just very efficient business strategy.

I'll just wait for a Honest trailer...

Your health and credit card data, emails and personal habits gets shared anyway every now and then, without your consent, and nobody seems complain about it too much. Claiming that something is illegal is moot unless you have a system in place that efficiently prevents that or - at least - reliably finds and punishes perpetrators. Internet don't work like that, though.

Problem is (assuming it's a problem) - internet was never built to be secure (in a sence of allowing someone to access information and denying someone else). Because of that we have "workarounds" like firewalls, 3rd party auth systems and the like. Basically if you want to keep information private - the only way to do it 100% securely is to keep it away from internet to begin with. Fixing all that will probably require redesigning entire OSI model from scratch - and that's something few can afford.

We do have stuff like DCMA that (supposedly) should prevent unauthorised distribution of data - but it only favors right-holders at the expence of everyone else - be it consumers, clients, or even authors. And since little people like me are going to get screwed over regardless of how secure (or more likely - controlled by government) environment is, I'd say I prefer a full-of-holes version of internet anyway. At least I have some control over what I share. If I share something - I assume anyone can see it. If i share something I don't want people to see - its entirely my fault.

Then you`ll have to pay every time you hear about this stuff.

It will be sooner them quartering us for not submitting to their business model, though.

I think the idea of big players is that a few generations down the line "ads on everything you pay for" will become new norm for everyone, as soon as people who remeber ad-free internet finally die off.

Thats right, I don't. And i actually agree with your point. I never said being empathic to someone means being brutal so someone else, either. In most cases, i think, its more about apathy than outright agression towards those who are outside one's scope of interest. On the other hand, empathy can only go so far, and one can only help a limited amount of people, regardless of how incredibly empathic that person can possibly be. So all I`m saying is that one does not exclude another.

And if that's really is main problem of the world, and whether or not we can fix it with tools we have - if I knew that, I'd probably start my own presitential campaign, or at least my own religion.
But here I am, posting another useless comment...

The brain being hardwired to empathy or friendship does not exclude being utterly sadistic/brutal/merciless to those one does not consider a friend or object of empathy though. You do care about you family more than, say, your neighbors or that other dude on the other side of a planet in that 3rd world country getting acute lead poisoning, right.
I'm fairly sure thats why people in power generally dont give a crap about all that small people. They do have people they really care about, and it just so happens that these people are (naturally) not their electorate, there are wives, husbands, lovers, concubines, kids, old pals and so on. So we all get crewed for a noble reason, because humans are empathic, have friends and all that...

In my experience, console gaming only gets convinient when I have an emulator for it. Then I can backup whatever the hell I want on my own terms and responsibility. Its only gets worse with modern walled-garden consoles, where developers go out of ther way to make everything incompatible with everything else.

Yeah i realize that chance that ps3 or ps4 going to get emulated (to a playable degree) are slim to none, but chances are that anything worth its weight in package plastic will get ported to pc a few years later anyway, despite being $console_name-exclusive upon release, like it happens to ps-exclusive FF series. Latest installments of FF kinda suck though, but that's another story...

I still have those Planescape: Torment saves (along with entire game) lying on that nas, waiting for when i finally find the time to continue playing. I`ve been putting it off for 4 years now :(