If you donâ(TM)t want them using your content, just block it from their scraper. If you do, that implies you benefit to your content being promoted on their service. In which case, why should they pay you? Thatâ(TM)s not their model, and youâ(TM)re not obliged to take part.

Except the suffering of those poor folk who only speak emoji, you insensitive clod.

All that is true, but irrelevant to a comparison between Starship and SLS as a means of returning to the moon, which is what people are talking about.

The trouble is, once they've got a cross-platform offering in place, most people won't care or understand it's inevitably a half-assed UX. But that doesn't seem to be something Apple should regulate. It self-regulates.

Are you using an Apple Newton by any chance?

So the packaging it comes in is technically an Xbox One X box.

No, not for fashion. Just to enjoy using it. The technical solution is only one part of designing something consumers actually connect with, and that, ultimately, is where the money is.

I see that your solution is word ransomization.

I don't think you understand the meaning of the word 'dictatorship'. The first thing I do on a new Mac is turn off the default 'only allow apps from the Mac App Store' security setting and then I can install anything I like. If you have the option to opt out, it's not a dictatorship. The point of my original post is that the user experience *is* the more for which I'm paying.

And we thought we'd have to wait until we were a stage 6, at least.

It absolutely is about the hardware (and what they've done at the OS level to support that). The resolution and extremely low latency of the stylus makes this a different class of experience - akin to the conceptual break between old touchscreens and modern 1:1 instantaneous response (iPhone, Android 4.1+, etc). It's a distinction lots of people overlooked at the time, but I'm willing to bet it will be as fundamental this time round as it was with touch. I've had all three Surface Pros, each time hoping the stylus input would be good enough for creative work, and it just isn't. It's still just the basic input method that Jobs dissed. If the iPad Pro does what it appears to from the videos, this is conceptually different from any other current device. Though I'm still hoping the Surface 4 has gone the same route...

Wait, Malcolm in the Middle did the graphics for Battle of Wesnoth?!

I think that's called Mulholland Drive Syndrome. You have a real problem...

You pronounce 'vase' like the Americans? And you call yourself British?!

Where the subject matter is not of a measurable or falsifiable nature, Google would have a third category, which flags pages with "Who gives a shit?".