Both of those companies share a common problem, Boeing more so than Intel - they aim for "shareholder value" much more than great products.

The moment you put the financial "engineers" in charge, they make short-sighted decisions on quality and safety, with predictable results.

It's popular to dump on capitalism as producing this result inevitably, but there are counterexamples - Apple springs to mind.
Tim Cook is fundamentally a logistics guy, which tethers him to real-world issues. He may not have Steve Jobs "vision", but he also does not have Bill Gates' "we must own everything" drive, so Apple is able to make money AND deliver usable products.

The government can't fix this - corporate management can, but they have to respond to incentives other than quarterly returns.

Trump is known for making things up.

Hydro (and geothermal) are emission-free baseload power.

Both of them have geological requirements that make them hard to scale up much more than they are currently being used:

Hydro means damming a river. Good luck getting approval, considering we're celebrating the removal of dams in California.

Geothermal means drilling for access to hot strata. I don't know much about it, but if it were cheap, easy, and available in lots of places, we would have more of them already, right?

Office on Mac works well enough that I have no trouble these days exchanging documents with Windows users.

Office on Mac Intel, Office on Mac ARM, both work fine.

So, somebody at Microsoft understands how to write cross-platform applications.

Does it work because they are using the macOS tool chain?

A lot of thought has already gone into that, though probably not at the domain level.

Given the history of country codes (imported from international postal codes), maybe we should have a TLD of .ss (Solar System).

The core of Google's search algorithm used to be PageRank, which rated pages by the number of links that refer to them.

Of course, that has been gamed by SEO link farms for a long time now - remember when you could do a search for a phone number and get a useful result instead of a useless machine-generated page?

And nowadays, Google is fine with using PageRank data to choose results, but it would prefer that you as a user not, you know, actually follow those links...

If Apple did try to create a new social app after putting this restriction in place, and it didn't abide by the same restrictions, they would deserve a visit from anti-trust.

As long as they don't do both of the above, I like the idea of selective contact sharing - "grant access to all of contacts" has caused me to refuse to install a lot of things.

put tighter controls on how much is given for cost of living expenses

The current system actually puts a feedback loop in place for that, and it usually runs in the wrong direction:

* Loan availability is based on cost of attending the school in question
* Service providers near schools see that students have loan money to spend, so they raise housing costs and move local eateries upscale
* Which raises cost of attending the school in question...

Among other things, the admissions staff for Harvard and Yale Law Schools should not control who can serve on the US Supreme Court.

Grow the trees in West Virginia.
Bury them in abandoned coal mines.
Worst case, you're replenishing the coal supply s few mega-years from now...

It can't be as bad as you think.
Consider the tree farms of the US East coast. There are hillsides that have been planted with trees and clearcut once a decade or so to turn the trees into paper.

This has been going on for generations, and if any fertilizer is needed to keep the trees growing, it must be cheap enough to do it profitably, which implies it doesn't take a lot of energy to make the fertilizer.

According to this, Pixels were at 3 years for Pixel 5 (2021), 5 years for Pixel 6 and 7 (2021-2023) and 7 years for Pixel 8 (late 2023 to the present).

So, they were better than I thought, and got to rough parity with Apple about one year ago.

Assuming they keep their promise, of course - there hasn't been enough time for the Pixel 6 to age out yet.

That would be a big change from current policy, and a change that would bring Apple closer to Android.

Apple routinely supports iPhone hardware for 5 years plus.
My ancient and revered XR will take the latest iOS - that's 6 years after the XR release.

It's big news when a high-end Android announces 3 years support guaranteed - at least that's what I recall about the Pixel a year or two ago.

It's like the emphasis on privacy - changing it would remove a big differentiator from Android, so they won't do it lightly.

Of course, if they "need the money since nobody's upgrading"...

Note that the Bloomberg report has no publicly available physical evidence to back it up.

They posted a follow-up report in 2021 with no additional evidence.

With Stuxnet, we had the code and the reports of centrifuge damage.

With this pager incident, we have the explosions.

Where's the proof of the Big Hack?

You can't give a serious answer to a rage-bait question.
This is Slashdot, where there are exactly two attitudes towards Apple allowed:

Fan-boy enthusiasm
Walled-garden rage