BMW did invest plenty in EVs. The i4 and i7 are good EVs and they just announced the new Neue Klasse bespoke EV platform with dozens of new models in the pipeline, including the newly introduced iX3.
They simply refused to pick a sunset date for their ICE cars. And it makes sense when you consider they don't really make appliances; they make cars for people who like driving. People like manual gearboxes and the sound of an engine.

Once D2C satellite service is available in earnest, this will no longer be a problem.
Starlink D2C is already operational. Low bandwidth, but this is enough for signaling an emergency.
ASTS will get there in 1-2 years as well.

Even when they made a good "product".... you weren't the customer.

The reason companies give Salesforce money is that the alternatives suck more than Salesforce does.

And contrary to what techies think, most businesses need CRM to make money so they can pay their complaining asses.

The A5000 was just an example of a budget camera having those features, despite being built 8 years ago. Most point-and-shoot cameras have the features you were complaining about. Look at the Sony ZV-1, RX100 etc. They also have better ergonomics for photo and video than a smartphone (again, physical controls). They have computation photography features as well, like eye tracking for photo / video, object tracking and so on. They also have better image quality - at least the ones I mentioned sure do.

I understand people not wanting to carry around a second device. But if the reasons you won't consider them have to do with image transfer or usability, you might want to reconsider.

One of my cameras is a Sony A5000 that's made in 2014. It has WiFi transfer, so I can use Sony's app to transfer any photo to my smartphone in seconds without needing to connect it to any computer. It has a "sunny mode" for the display making it very usable in bright light. Despite being very compact, the ergonomics of taking photos are way better than my smartphone (better grip, a physical dial). And I can actually change lenses.

I agree, that's why I was so disappointed that Samsung didn't follow through with their NX line-up. We could have had close to smartphone usability with the ergonomics of a real camera, all in one product. Oh well.

I have an A5000 as my backup camera and I use the WiFi interface all the time to transfer photos to my phone.

Zoom did well as a company. Unlike a bunch of tech unicorns it's been profitable for a long time while still managing to scale up its operations. They have a pretty good product suite, including Zoom Phone. They were in a great position to capitalize on the seismic shift to remote work. But none of that justifies the completely unrealistic expectations the investors placed upon them, when they bid up the stock price to almost $600. There was no way to justify those kind of expectations for future growth, but that's what happens when everyone was thinking they found the next AMZN. Six months into the pandemic everyone and their mother had videoconferencing in place, or they'd be out of business. The company was never going to grow another 7-10x from that point on by convincing those who had stuck with Microsoft, Google or Cisco through the worst of the pandemic to switch to Zoom. On the contrary, Microsoft, Google etc who bundle their videoconferencing solutions into their business productivity suites would put more and more pressure to justify spending extra for Zoom. I personally think $60 is a fair price for this company's stock.

Once you become a contract employee, the employer is on the hook for a number of "fixed costs" related to your employment. Things like their contribution to social security, pensions etc. Given that fact, they will NOT be writing a contract which enables you to work as few hours per week as you effing please, any number of times you like, without manager approval. You're not going to take two days off whenever you feel like, because if that happens then you'll not be working enough to cover your fixed costs, and at that point you become a net negative on your employers' balance sheet. And you will be laid off. Generally speaking the employer doesn't want to lay people off; they want them to be working and making them money. On a gig deal, if you don't work then you don't get paid - there are no fixed costs for your employer to handle. They might still prefer that you put in more hours but you working less hours doesn't make it a net negative for them.

Yes, as a contract employee you'll have a minimum number of working hours each week, with potential overtime rules and (depending on role) shift rotations. Schedule flexibility doesn't eliminate that minimum hours requirement, nor does it eliminate your boss' own approval before you can randomly take two days off work on very short notice. As an Uber driver, I can literally clock out at any time, make myself unavailable in the platform, go do whatever, and then come back three days later and go back to making money, with no one batting an eye. This is nothing like the life of a contract employee.

Some companies offer flexibility in terms of schedule. If you want to work 11 to 19 instead of 9 to 17, or if you'd rather work the night shift, that's fine as long as you set it up in advance. But try calling your boss at 9 AM and tell them you'll be taking today and tomorrow off, just because you felt like going to the beach instead. See how many companies put up with that if you're an actual employee.

It's about becoming carbon-neutral. Before you can improve something, you need to be able to measure it. Although if it's anything like Microsoft's similar dashboard, I suspect its main purpose will be to build a case for moving to the cloud instead of using your own datacenters.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

The thing is, you don't really care about the thing you see through the viewfinder; what you care about is the image that ends up on the sensor.

Prior to taking the shot, DSLRs don't show you the image as the sensor sees it; instead you see the image that the mirror reflects into your eye. But the image on the sensor will be affected by things like ISO (or exposure compensation if you're using that) so you will only see the finished product after the shot is taken.

Mirrorless cameras show you the image that ends up on the sensor, either though the viewfinder or on the LCD screen; and yes, in the past the quality of these screens was lacking, but pick up any mirrorless camera released in the past three years and you're fine.

Mirrorless is just awesome. Since you're now getting a great representation of the image you're about to take, EVFs can overlay a bunch of other useful information right on top of that: a live histogram, live zebras, focus peaking etc.

And before you say, well just use Live View on a DSLR, that's kind of the point: to have access to these features you need to get the mirror out of the way. With today's screen resolutions and luminosity, mirrorless is just a superior design.

Another advantage is the shorter flange distance which allows for more compact wide-angle lenses.