I really enjoyed the diversity of WM/DE back then, and the innovation when new ones like Enlightenment were released!
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It's easy to make the most capable product if you disregard the price point completely.
They're living off the rent from older products. What's their last innovation? Vision Pro??
I believe they're talking about the damages made by Bob Swan, the previous CEO who is indeed an MBA and was CFO of Intel before.
It's a monopoly because gamers go where games are, and developers go where customers are.
For the same reason Apple App Store / Play Store is a duopoly.
Steam is the best, and we're lucky that Steam is the one that won rather than another. Which could definitely have happened because once one of them is in place it's extremely hard to change.
So the situation is good for gamers, but from an economic point of view it's bad.
ARM Inc is an English company owned by a Japanese company
A new midrange is better than a 3 years old flagship, if only for the software updates.
Plus you still have your old phone to resell or hand down to a family member.
Journalists want clicks, and they get more by talking about "leaks".
If a game doesn't run on Linux I can't even try it. No risk of it becoming my favorite game!
Participating in the network doesn't compromise your privacy.