When you read the article, it also points to another article that goes further into this case.

...in 2014 it contracted with Twitter to provide "unique, custom-designed IT infrastructure products including rack solutions."...

Seems it was already approved in 2014 for such a long-term relationship in writing. It seems that Elon just didn't want to pay for it even though Twitter was contractual bound to pay.

The biggest concerns I have with this is there can't ever be more than iOS or Android for smartphones anymore.

If anyone tried to make a different OS, no one would buy it because you need these apps for so many things that just aren't accessible otherwise. And no company will make their app for another OS because they will point out the market share is too small.

And with the talks of breaking up Google, which could really hurt Android, there is a decent concern that it will become a government created, third-party enforced monopoly for Apple. And since Apple isn't causing it, taking them to court over their monopoly would be hard to almost impossible.

Trickle down economics is also illegal in the USA. It was attempted by Ford Motors in 1919.

Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. (1919), is a case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford had to operate the Ford Motor Company in the interests of its shareholders, rather than in a manner for the benefit of his employees or customers.

Ford declared:

My ambition is to employ still more men, to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this we are putting the greatest share of our profits back in the business.

...in the opinion written by Russell C. Ostrander argued that the profits to the stockholders should be the primary concern for the company directors... The court therefore upheld the order of the trial court requiring that directors declare an extra dividend of $19.3 million. It said the following:

A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits or to the nondistribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes.

The whole idea of trickle down economics was never going to happen because the first company that would have tried it (again) would have just lost in court and the CEO that authorized it would be fired and removed.

Seems to match when more people had better access to smartphones and watching videos not just in the privacy of their home. Could be a lot of people aren't watching movies with sex as often because you don't want to be on a bus/plane where others can see your screen and suddenly it's a sex scene. (Amongst other reasons)

Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter and then an HDMI cable would do that, but more things to add.

It's hooked to a Mac, so most likely on Thunderbolt which would allow it internet access with the video feed. So it's possible they didn't have a choice. (This isn't limited to Mac though)

Present day. Present time.

No. It was a completely different product. It's like trying to claim that an iPhone is an iMac because it has the "i" in the name and is made by the same company. Similar branding to help tie it together, but completely different devices.

The Kindle Fire was an Android tablet, not an e-reader. Completely different products.

I don't understand what the point is with having an e-reader with a colour screen when the screen is so small. Anything I read that would benefit from a colour screen is either a PDF or a comic, and those suffer from tiny letters on a screen under 10 inches.

Or is there a lot of newer books that have images and such that aren't PDF/CBR based?

A family of four can have serious issues with data caps.

So, if you are single, multiply your usage by four. Would you still be under your data cap?

With the rise of ARM, I don't think they'd need to, since ARM gives enough competition.

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