You raise some good points and I agree with most of them.

I live in Canada and the only option of I have to sideload is paying for a developer account which is $100 CAD/year, otherwise I am stuck with a version where I have to re-sign the apps every 7 days. I know that the EU version is cumbersome and still needs Apple to notarise apps. My point here is that it’s hard to sideload, within and outside of the EU.

I truly believe their notion of a “walled garden” is just nonsense. They use this to justify preventing other people from accessing their digital marketplace or creating their own marketplace. It’s just a money grab and a monopoly.

At least on Android, I have the option to use the Play Store, Samsung Store, or any other 3rd party App Store, or simply sideload for free. I don’t have this option with an iPhone.

This instance just proved their marketing gimmick that they curate everything that goes into the App Store.

I would like them to open up their walled garden outside of the EU.

That’s quite punny if you asked me.

This is not due to the 13/14th generation CPU recall, rather Intel as a whole is floundering.

They missed the entire AI gravy train, losing market share to AMD, lost Apples business, etcetera. Intels foundry requires a lot of capital for both RnD and to keep the fabs running. They are losing market share and they have higher cost business compared to their competitors.

Funnily enough, the Onexfly F1 Pro just went up for sale too. The newer “AI HX” chips are expensive because where top end sku for Onexfly costs $1399.

I suspect that Ayaneo 3 will also have similar pricing.

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You couldn’t have said it better. If money and revenue is an issue, then why keep chasing the next shiny thing.

Just last month, they had a press release announcing they’ll incorporate AI into their product suite. In my opinion, the release was just a buzzword laden nonsense. I just don’t see the why other than to keep themselves relevant.

I really love Firefox, but I dislike some of the initiatives the for-profit arm, Mozilla Corporation, is taking. This is another head scratcher moments for me. I want my browser to be just a browser. I don’t want Pocket, Google Search, nor any other nonsense.

I get that they are subsiding the development costs of Firefox, but surely, there must be other avenues to generate revenue. It is really hypocritical of Mozilla when they market Firefox as a privacy focused alternative to Chrome/Edge/Safari and then bundle ads and sponsored nonsense.

Mozilla partnered with Onerep (the company investigated by Brian Krebs) for their privacy monitoring service. The CEO of Onerep is linked to numerous “people lookup” websites.

It does sound like a conspiracy and I am advocating to wait until Mozilla addresses the concern. In my opinion, it’s likely an oversight and failure to do their due diligence.

Apologies! The links must not have copied over from my post on firefox@lemmy.ml! I’ll update the post with the correct links.

Edit: I updated the original post with the correct links.