You mean "everyone in one particular country", surely?

And from what I understand your taxes don't even pay for healthcare. That's so dystopian.

They can't be forced, though they can be banned from certain countries. ByteDance could say "fine, we won't operate in the countries that ban us".

$55? Why are you getting petrol when your tank is already nearly full? /s

This is begging to be exploited. Imagine someone being able to wirelessly "update" your phone to a hacked version.

I'm of the opinion that people that have amassed that amount of money are evil. He's like Smaug sitting on his hoard.

What they call "linear TV" I've heard called "broadcast TV". A certain show is on at a certain time and unless you have a device that records it, if you miss it you miss it. That's the way it was when I was bought up. My country no longer has a VHF terrestrial TV broadcast. The only broadcast platforms we have are by Satellite. I haven't watched "broadcast TV" since I ditched Sky about 6 years ago.

I don't like running, I had my ACL reconstructed a couple of years ago and running hard worries me. I do love cycling though so that's my go to for cardio. Whether mountain biking or using the awesome FulGaz app on an indoor trainer I can't get enough of it. I spend my day developing software and wondering where my next ride will be.

I have a single Sonos speaker and it works ok in that the sound quality is good enough for me. I only use Deezer which suits my needs. My gripe is that the iOS app connectivity to the speaker is terrible. From an Android tablet it's fine. I'm fed up with the wifi dropping and songs just stopping or skipping to the next song. No other device in that part of the house has connectivity issues. They're also very expensive for what they are. $369 for the small "Sonos One"? No thanks.

Having no brakes seems a bit dangerous.

Where I live it costs about $14 to see the movie in a theatre and $40 for the "pass" to watch it on Disney+.

30,000 cases *per day*!! What the hell are they doing up there in dystopia land?. If we have a single new case in the community it's all over the news and cities go into lock down. And because of this we've enjoyed very few restrictions on our lives since the pandemic started. I love living in New Zealand.

That's not anything like what's happening here though. Epic starting distributing apps on the iOS app store knowing full well what the conditions of doing that was. Apple hasn't changed anything regarding this. Epic have decided that they don't like the rules that they originally agreed to so they ignored them. And Apple followed the guidelines and fought back. As they should have. Epic don't have to distribute their apps on iOS, but if they do they need to follow the rules that other app developers have to follow.

I think 30% is quite steep. But that's not the point. If Epic didn't like the rules then they shouldn't have agreed to them.

A gaming console is an appliance. It lives in the TV cabinet under the TV. My computer is a heavy desktop PC in my office with a dozen cables coming out of it and it runs Linux. While it's plenty powerful enough to run games I can't run games on it because it's Linux and I'm not going to unplug it, shift it to the lounge and plug it all back in again. If I want to play Forza I want to be able to sit on the couch and press one button on the controller to start it up, not spend 20 minutes shagging around shifting a computer.

Lobbying, a euphemism for "corruption". In most modern democracies this isn't allowed or is severely limited.