Cory Doctorow sums it up pretty well:

It does seem to be a very conspiracist explanation, one man's "evil gummint trying to control the narrative" is another man's "government doesn't understand why it should be employing a crackpot who spends his time creating a lot of work for everyone around them".

Anyone want to start a GoFundMe to support future protests of this form? And another for Zuckerberg. And one for Musk. And one for... oh heck, there's just too many tech bros.

A think a better one-sentence one is "Sales of TVs built with fad n flagging, vendors introduce fad n+1 to rejuvenate sales".

Already taken care of, some guy called Drepper has it covered.

I didn't mean they refuse to grow anywhere else, I meant they've been confined to a particular geographic area until now because no-one else had them. Think rubber trees, the Scottish guy who stole Chinese tea plants, and more recently kiwifruit in New Zealand, because who would have thought selling the plants/seeds to places closer to their markets than New Zealand, in other words everywhere on the planet, would curtail sales from New Zealand?

Yup, that's what AutoHotKey is for. I use the Windows key on my keyboard as a general-purpose macro key, if there was a CoPilot key it'd just be a second macro key.

Dammit, came here to say exactly the same thing.

Sure: Make fancy thing, put Apple logo on thing, people pay lots for thing. Works every time.

I'm waiting to see how they're going to make the tech work though when every other attempt has failed.

Sort of like fruit and veg growers of geographically constrained fruit/vegetable types who say "let's stop just selling our lucrative only-grows-here fruit to others and start selling the seeds as well, that'll bring us much more profit!".

More from the marketing school of "if we treat out customers like crap, maybe they'll go away".

Oh yes you are!

How? A pipeline through Iraq perhaps? Or Syria? There's already one through Saudi Arabia which the Saudi's are making the most of, but all it takes to put that out of commission is a single drone strike anywhere along its thousand-km length.

It also showed the IRGC what they need to do going forward: Forget the nukes, they've got the Straights of Hormuz to hold the world to ransom, all you need for that is a few conventional drones and sea mines that you can churn out by the thousand without triggering any sanctions. Plus they've had a dry-run of what else to target, and how, in the future. So they graciously give up their nuclear programme, which they no longer need, in exchange for concessions and lifting of sanctions.

Nope, they invented bullshit cover stories to mask what they actually did. Well, not really invented the concept but the bullshit level in this one is new. I like the use of quantum in there, that always gets people's brains to shut down and swallow whatever's being sold.