You say this as if Android has tens of thousands of useful/good apps.

There’s probably 100-250 that you might _really_ want.

Amazon can easily afford to pay each developer $1 million to port theirs, if they get serious about their own OS.

That didn't seem to work for Microsoft.

If they create their own SoC with their own IP having their own system will make it easier to move forward, as they won’t need to share development concerns with a larger group (e.g. they want feature X to go into one direction, and Android takes it in a different one, meaning they would end up with a fork).

This is not a huge issue with smaller/trivial features, but can get really cumbersome with bigger ones, and even more so if the forks start diverging more. As for control, see Apple & getting a modern GPU API that works on mobile and desktop and can be iterated quickly.

For a large number of industries Android makes more sense because they depend on certain development processes (security, hardware support, regulated environment certification, etc), but for multimedia consumption a lot of those are not needed.

Last, but not least, vanity can be a big part of such decisions, too. Engineers love to build stuff, even if it means reinventing the wheel for the Nth time.

I mean, $800 is kinda cheap for self-worth, if we’re honest. Cheaper than a sports car or house with a view or own apartment or even one vacation someplace fancy.

But yeah, ideally one shouldn’t tie self worth to perishables.

Something like: If I have a call with you once, theoretically I might have a call with you again in the future. If they use my content to train "your" AI that would improve our theoretical future call, too, and is a "for me" use, I guess?

And I might have a call with any other zoom user, too, potentially, maybe. So really they are doing me a service by using my content all over the place — who knows, it might benefit me at some point!

Looks like MonoLisa, at a first glance.

Yeah, CLion

> Alas ... not for mistreating or overworking employees but for lying on the business plan.

Business plan can be easily marked a “mistake out of sloppiness” if you don’t want to fire people.

Abuse is bad for the image and evidence collection takes ages (and hence is expensive).

Lying to the board works much better to get rid of people fast. I would bet you weren’t the first startup to do a bisserl of Zahlen frisieren.

Yeah it’s all a big conspiracy.

> Would be curious if they live up to their own marketing.

Do people really think that companies like Apple et al (who have a huge number of people following them eager to rip into them at ever opportunity) could get away with a "marketing story" like that? Like, really, Apple just making all that up and _not one single person_ whistleblowing on it if it were a lie?

I’ve seen that done just as a gesture of good will, in a "if it helps, we can spend more money"-kind of way, even though everyone involved knows it would just complicate things.