Llamatron

The fines are no doubt cheaper than actually doing something about it. Plus if they do something and are even moderately successful then he’d have less of an excuse for doing nothing about Russian disinformation and other bullshit.

Good to know. Thanks. Still a shady thing to do. Why have it ignore the global setting?

Yup. Teams ignores default browser and opens URLs in Edge. I have to right click copy and open in Firefox. I refuse to be forced to use Edge

Yay capitalism

Surely this is self defeating? Everyone seeing these insane price increases will scare off any potential new customers and drive away the customers they do have. Sure it might increase revenue in the short term but ultimately it’ll kill the product. Or is that the point? Make as much money as they can with as little effort as possible and then let it die?

I like to buy the phone outright rather than get one on contract but the flagship phones are just so expensive nowadays. My S8’s battery is getting steadily worse so I’ll probably upgrade when I can no longer ignore it. At the minute I just don’t feel like I can justify such a massive expense for something that will essentially just be more of the same only a bit bigger and a bit faster. Maybe I’ll go for a Pixel instead.

One day I’ll upgrade my S8