what???
Literally, 1st goole result:
lyrebird

In fact, Let me google that for you

It seems to me pretty short sighted to think USA is subsidizing pharmaceutical research for the rest of the world.
There is much more people dedicated to medical research out than inside USA.

The answer is simple and also stated before: Greed

Apple has been locking more and more his devices. This is just olds, no news :P

What I wonder is if the movement right to repair is getting traction in USA. Wathever happens will define the years to come.

Sadly, It seems that only Trump subdits can affect Apple, and whatever Apple does, every other vendor imitates, affecting everybody worldwide.

They are hungry, and cannot pay bills, so all the good ones are fleeing away.

Adding to this lack of ports, the really issue is the failures.

I owned several iPhones, few iPads and fewer MacBooks, but each device has been more expensive than the previous one, and at the same time less reliable and with less value over competition.

And finally, support quality has decreased. Back in 2014, It was hard not to get even a replacement model for even small minor issues. Couple years ago got the iPhone SE, but few days after I discovered a hardware defect. The only answer Apple will provide was to repair it for aprox 70% of the price of a new one...

I cannot justify to keep paying those prices without reliability. Purchasing things more and more expensive, and with more and more bugs (both hardware and software) it's just idiotic.

Well,

Just tried to check your DDBB, but Didgets.io just returns a nice 404 (slashdot effect?) Will try again in a couple days.

Said that, IF your DDBB is mySQL compatible, so I don't have to port all the queries and works on low end machines (raspberry, or even containers inside rasp) I will become an evangelist

Anyway remember, that a good product is just like a good idea, without sales leads to nothing.

The point is not that it feels cooler, is that when used properly, it feels faster.

When you use lets set 150 ms to make a transition effect, the user percives it as instantaneous, but the machine had a reasonable amount of time to do operations.

Usually this is the work of animators and/or front end developers, who wants that his works shines, not that it becomes invisible. So properly implementation requires a lot of case study, fine tuning, user feedback loop and effort.

At the same time, "perceived delay" does not appear in any metrics, you need test fields for that. Usually this amount of investment is out of the reach for most companies. When they become huge and rich is hard that they add this layer to their process.

There are several factors to take in account.

First and foremost, audience has expanded hugely. Back in the 80 when the price was set, like 1 kid in 20 will be in a family that bought some videogame and developed interest on it. Now is like 19 of 20, and we have much more adults playing.

Also, purchases habit changed a lot with the internet era
As example, back in the 90's I could buy 2-5 games year max, maybe 1 or 2 on discount. And I had no idea if thery where fresh releases or had been going around for years. Nowadays I could buy like 10 more games, but most of them with huge dicounts on sales or bundles, and I'm only getting a full price, just released game like every couple years. Seems to be like I'm expending a little more, and sharing that between more companies.

Nowaday videogames move a lot of peaople, heck even a "industry" has been built around. There is lots and lots of money around. That creators are being underpaid has nothing to do with lack of money. Is just the same inmoral (from my POV) scheme that we have on music or movies industries, where corporate can run with the money and declare loses.

And last but no least, really funny complaining about no price increase, from my point of view (Spain) wages had been stagnated last years. Even it seems to be there is data about House, transportation and food had been rising. Tough not everything has been: electronics or communications became lot cheaper in proportion.

There are lots of other valid points around the comments, no need to expand this. Yes there is competition. Yes lots of companies cannot thrieve. But the same happens around every market, so it is normal. What we should be worring and discusing about is the conditions of the workers: Remember one day maybe you end up in one of these works.

Well...

That seems perfect for corporations.

It could be added to the Bluecoat and Evil Corporate Proxy to maximize employee frustration.