And now they don't want it to happen to them.

Insomniac Studios comes to mind - they produced Sunset Overdrive (Xbox exclusive), then Sony buys them and locks them down to PS only from there on out.

What I hope to see come of this is an opening up from both sides to support each other's platforms. They both can win in that case since the software will sell on the other platform, but it's going to take a lot to get Sony to budge from their stance on being isolated.

I do have to wonder how accurate that figure is on that site when they report 6 mill subs but only 60k (on average) concurrent players? That's bad. Microsoft won't be able to do worse that than with the product as it stands.

Still a drop in the bucket compared to what they used to bring in.

Acti-Blizz fucked it up to the point they have shed tens of thousands of subscribers since Ion took over. It won't be any better or worse under Microsoft.

Mazda was the first to do this when they launched the new Mazda 3 sedan and hatch for the 2019 model year at the end of 2018. Honda is just now realizing it as well.

American companies could sell their cars in Japan, but tariffs were the last of the reasons they never took off there. Look at the cars sold there compared to here - they require considerably smaller cars for their cities and roads than we do. Same goes for a lot of areas in Europe. US cars are gigantic compared to most cars sold in Europe and Japan.

China is a whole different story. The US manufacturers are selling cars there, but they have to partner with a local company. Is it fair? Ford and GM think so, as it's been profitable for them.

The solar panel tariffs were increased even more by Trump, so I'm unsure what you're going for here.

But yet Apple does it all the time. So does Google if you bought a Nexus directly from them. Why can't the rest?

1) Smartphones - are we going to ditch those since they can provide more information to the NSA/Government than an Xbox Kinect can?
2) I'd gladly unplug (turn off - still no guarantee since my Nexus 5 has a sealed battery) my smartphone, but since I'm expected to carry it for work (stipend) I can't exactly turn it off.

What about our cell phones that have cameras on both sides with microphones and GPS? We're freaking out over a Kinect sensor when the NSA is more likely to go after your smart phone than a Kinect sensor because it can gather more data from that device than a video game console could ever provide.

While I cannot say what Lenscrafters runs on the back end, they do use Linux extensively in their shops. I'm guessing they are using home grown applications, but they didn't let Linux prevent them from running an optometry and eye glass operation.

Perhaps I am not understanding, but if someone has physical access to any tablet that has a reader, don't they have access to every book you own? The Kindle app for both Android and iOS are like this as is iBooks...but I know most of Apple's stuff will require a password again to download.

I have a Fire and utilize the lock screen password. Why people keep saying it doesn't have a lock screen baffles me. You get the full keyboard so you can use a rather complex password if you like.

Personally I really like the thing. It has some software bugs and I would prefer hardware volume buttons, but it hasn't been a deal breaker. My wife has even commented on how much I use it.

Except hospital visits tend to cost more than repairs to a vehicle. Hence the liability.

The thing that baffles me is this dead horse has been beaten before. The problem lies mainly with the size of vehicle we Americans think we need. Europe and large parts of Asia all drive much smaller vehicles due to fuel prices and smaller roads (especially in populated areas that were around before the auto) and don't have fatalities go up with the push for more fuel efficient vehicles.

Another casualty of all the SUVs and tucks is the belt-line of cars has had to be raised giving us smaller windows on the sides of most new cars to compensate for the higher bumper/frontal area of said SUVs and trucks. I do rather like the 300's retro chop-top look though.

It seems the judge is trying to force them to settle now instead of dragging it out. He is telling Oracle to lower the damages while looking at Google and telling them if they lose he will side with Oracle if they opt to force the stop of Android until the code is fixed which would obviously be a bad thing.

Our IT department (Which I am a member of) is not typical then. We run a mix of Windows and Linux for our server structure and Macs and PCs (with a small number of Linux laptops) for the end users. iPhones, Android, Black Berry, Win Mobile, and WebOS on phones...a few iPads too. And we have no issue supporting them and making them work together...and we know how to lock down features of the Mac OS if we need too, but thankfully we have had no reason to do so.