Now we are _better_ than millions of years of humans were before! Oh, wait ...

Indeed. This is essentually the same when rats and other pests start to slowly crawl into a building.

Who says I am talking about their consumer products?

Inded. These days they cannot get anything right. Example: Just today Teams screwed me over. I minimally increased the speaker volume and some mechanism panicked apparently at the system-signal for speaker adjustment and then I could not hear the other side anymore. Leving and rejoining (either and both sides) did not help. Audio-settings did not help. Now, there apparently used to be a setting to switch this crap off or reset it, but not anymore. Nothing helped and I had to call the other person on the phone. That is not professional level software. That is a cretin-level tpy. If this was an isolated insicent, sure. But I found this has been a problem for people for several years now. And it fits well with the random and unpredictable and obscure behaviour of all things Microsoft. They have done so much crap now that there is no way they can fix this, ever. And some day the real cost of using their trash will become obvious. And then they will die.

Nobody said MS was "hurting". The claim is that they are a dead man walking and that claim is accurate. They will surely walk for anothe 10 or maybe even 15 years, but their products have gotten so abysmally bad that they have no long-term future.

Intel only ever had their superior manufaturing process, which they had from making memory. As soon as that was gone, it became obvious how bad technologucally theor designs actually were and how far behind the competition. Conceptionally pretty much the same as Boeing, or, since that is the topic, Microsoft. These companies never really could compete, except in a dominant position. Time for them to die. They join plenty of others on the trash-heap of tech hostory. And in most cases, death was well deserved.

I have no idea whether you are a MAGA, but the quality of your mental processes seems at least often pretty similar. Remember thet Trump is a symptom of a larger problem and not everybody part of that problem likes Trump. Some even see that electing a rapist, convicted felon and serial banktuptee as president may be a bad idea.

True. Does not help the person going to prison much though.

It is really sad to see people not learning from history and making the same dumb mistakes again and again and again. Remember this in a few years. Maybe you will learn something then.

Indeed. And it will be. Probably by losing 10% of its revenue.

But Google has been a habitual liar for a while now.

You are talking to idiots that think that tariffs are paid by the exporter, not the importer.

Yep. Essentially sunk-cost fallacy. And it makes things worse. It is hard to feel comassion for people that aggressively are doing it to themselves.

Talk about collectively digging your own grave. Such a smart move...

I am aware.