What I’m saying is that they should hold the concerts at Metropolitano

The root cause has been identified as "Being built by Boeing"

Motorola is Chinese nowadays.

I'm sure some companies were subsidized by the Chinese government, like Huawei, ZTE, etc, but I'm sure many aren't. Remember that in many ways the Chinese economy is savagely capitalistic, and that there are tons of millionaires looking for investment opportunities

My 4 year old works fine. I use a lot of the car sharing schemes, so I'm constantly connecting to different cars, without a hitch.

Oh come oooon! Like all the western powers haven't done those things for years!

Pretty much any manufacturer will make you jump through those hoops. Try starting an iPhone without inputing any info

I have recently gotten an iPad, because my carrier had a banger of a deal (30% off on the 2024 Air, 48 months payment no interest) and my Huawei tablet was getting long in the tooth, so I jumped.

I have owned Android since the first Galaxy (no number), tablets since the first 7" Galaxy Tab.

I have gone through a few tablets, 3-4 Samsung, Lenovo, Huawei, a couple of no names, and I got the iPad, because for tablet things is still the reference. Best experience hands down.

Would I get an iPhone? NO WAY.

The iPad is an occasional use device. I use it for media consumption, some social media (not much of a user) and for graphics stuff with the Affinity suite, which BTW is reason enough to get an iPad if you do design/photo. It's the device for when the laptop is too cumbersome, or overkill. It's great to take notes, scribble, sketch. It's awesome to edit pics on the go, which I do a surprising lot.

But.... Apple limits what I can do. Too much.

Would I accept the constraints of iOS in my main electronic device? No. I can live with the iPad's constraints because I have a super capable phone (a 4 year old Xiaomi which is truly fantastic), which I can tune as I wish, and because it's use case is fairly well defined. I would not compromise with my phone. Simple things like changing the launcher, what goes on my lock screen like alternate number / emergency contact, or whatever clock I want, or the keyboard, or installing apps from wherever I want, or rooting and changing the ROM (not all phones) or not dealing with iCloud bullshit, or having proper Firefox with extensions, or torrenting, or any of the tweaks, modifications, or whatever that make my Android MINE.

Just search for "things that iphones can't do". You'll have reading for an afternoon.

Sony excels at product, sucks at marketing. Their phones are truly fantastic.

Ban browsers, problem solved

The solution is obvious, but there must be some money changing hands unseen to prevent it from happening

What's the problem? you can disable it, and, for example, I don't want my 80 yr old mother sideloading stuff. It's not like Apple where you just CAN'T do stuff.

Don't you have legs?

Occam's razor

highlandish things

Intel, the Boeing of chip makers

3 to 10 days. Quantity? Colors? Cotton weight ?

I'm looking into installing two of these here (southern Europe). There are some models that reach an SCOP of 5. That means that in heating mode for every Kw used they release 5Kw of heat in the room. They are legally considered renewable energy.

I run it in a VM. Definitely not ideal, but affinity is so good, I compromise

I'm going to assume sarcasm, no?