Surprisingly this feels like it has been in existence for longer than 29 years.

Plus they are not cheap either.

I Blame that on Qualcomm. Right now they are the only vendor with ARM CPU on Windows. And using QC CPU means you must buy their whole "solution".

As much as people are making this out to be a Google thing, I think this is more about the security requirements many countries are imposing.

I did some surface-level research, but I couldn’t find any country that explicitly or publicly requested this from Google.

While I saw countries discussing the issue, none of them seemed to ask Google directly to only allow authorized third party apps.

That makes me think this is entirely a power move. If those countries had actually asked Google to step in and make phones safer, there are other ways to do that. And if they did explicitly request this particular solution, then why isn’t it being implemented only in those countries?

This is a software-based solution—just like Apple limits certain features to specific regions, Google could do the same and restrict it to the countries that require it.

I think we are already past that point. With Apple Macbook, Google Chromebook and Microsoft Surface, we pretty much have all consumer computer echo system become ARM based. Thanks to AMDs resurgence the server space is still heavily x86 based.

No consumer to a first approximation chooses to buy Chromebooks any more than they choose to run Salesforce at home.

Chromebooks are the B2B SaaS of hardware where the buyer is not the user - mostly school systems.

I work at an e-waste recycling company. I can confirm that the vast majority of Chromebooks we have are from schools.

MacBooks, Chromebooks, and Surfaces do not account for all consumer computer sales. And there are plenty of x86 Chromebooks out there.

That's pretty much the comparison between Tesla and old-time car manufacturers. Most people who are trading Tesla stock don't even look at other car stocks.

Send the bill to my manager

Yes. And that is why some places like food trucks charge 3% transaction fees instead of 1 or 2%

I don't think it is that giant. It is basically the downtown of a small town.

Would the battery and by that virtue these cars at least have a longer life?

Most likely yes.

I sometimes do find different prices for same products with amazon pushing me to buy product with prime shipping.

If you use an extension like Honey, it will warn you that a product is available for lower price without Prime.

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