Because it's known that interrupting the user-intent with a unrelated consent-popup doesn't help.

Older people may remember that this was the approach of Java J2ME, where you couldn't provide a fluent user-experience as the user first had to answer huge popups about individual API-permissions with "Always Allow", "Allow now" etc.

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However, as I understood, in China HarmonyOS next has no Anroid-emulation layer (which is probably a wise decision if you want to drive domestic app-developers to support your platform...)

I assume it would require some additional patching in those GT / NFS games though...

Don't know why, it was really meant in good faith, but okay...

So consoles only, Fortnite-like-but-paid or are we ready to try the revenue-maximizing "companion phone app" thing again...?

At the core the post has accurate information, but the statements keep mixing discovered facts with emotional exaggerations, which creates the noise-element.

And this later forces you to roll back on parts of the statement. Not on the facts but on those speculations, which weakens the overall force of your statements.

For example, the journey of this post is:

  1. No MTE-support found: "It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money"
  2. MTE-support found: "It still has at least bare minimum support for MTE at a hardware level. We think they removed most of the hardware acceleration from the CPU cache to save money. They ruined the performance so it ended up being fully disabled in firmware.
  [..] We expect performance must be quite bad for Google to have decided to entirely strip out support for it"
  3. No observed reduction in performance: "Our own testing doesn't show a substantial reduction in performance so far."

But jumping from facts straight to exaggerations and indirect accusations is not helping your cause, it's diluting the whole message.

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> "Android 17 QPR1 is the latest major release of Android for Pixels"

You probably know that already, but the latest release seems to be QPR2 Beta 6 of one week ago, and includes the Pixel 11 series as supported devices [0].

[0] https://developer.android.com/about/versions/17/qpr2/get

It has no MTE right now, okay. Is there any evidence on the rest?

It's an emotional discussion about Google not supporting MTE on Pixel 11 (old news of August, GrapheneOS had to roll back that statement in September [0]).

Now the question is whether MTE will be enabled by Google as part of a future OS-upgrade, to which there is no definite answer AFAIK

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536384

Yeah, because a year down the road they might give the same people a reason to upgrade to another box, not from Apple.

Apple needs to ensure that they stand in the middle of every supplier relationship their customers have.

That's quite difficult when they don't provide direct value to both, so the natural conclusion is for Apple to present itself as a care-taker, the only one who prevents the user from taking any harm...

This "you are entering the wilderness, I will not be able to protect you anymore if you proceed" framing reminds me of the alternative AppStore case, where Apple (and Google) applied scare-tactics in the UI to discourage users from giving permissions to alternative stores.

So as always, for the sake of "privacy" Apple needs to take action to protect the users from "themselves", and make it undesirable to grant others the same access Apple has...

But I'm sure the day of the iOS-based iMac will come, and pandora's box will be opened. Businesses will love it, especially those with Kiosk use-cases, and not before long we will read everywhere (including here) how superior the security is to a Mac for everyday use...

I would now like to open the floor to investigations in this industry to determine whether this is hindering free-market forces and is ripe for regulation, as no-one is able to actually compete with these handful of companies anymore.

...anyone?

...ah yeah, right, I forgot. They also found a circular financing scheme which enslaved the entire global economy and organically prevents governments from properly governing their industry.

- Oreo CEO, suggesting you to buy every Oreo you can get

Look at what you're replying to.

As already stated, this is the ESTIMATED RETAIL VALUE of the wine, NOT the Sales Revenue.

You then conflate this with the EXPORT VALUE of Californian wine, which is not the retail value but the price the winery is selling the wine for to a foreign buyer.

Apart from that the value also doesn't matter, in the context of AMOUNT of grapes purchased the QUANTITY of wine produced is more relevant than the VALUE created with it.

> "You literally have this situation. Only 2% of California wine goes to the export market at all, and people are literally arguing that [..]"

Again, it's not 2%. You literally need to read the sources you cited yourself. They provide good data to educate yourself and see where you're trying to force a conclusion without the proper facts.

And nobody is "arguing" what you state. The OP stated "It's a shrinking market, but it surely doesn't help that people are simply boycotting US goods." and you're trying to ridicule him for that without having any leg to stand on...

> "68 billion dollars worth of sales each year"

TOTAL Retail value (includes markups by wholesalers, retailers and restaurateurs), NOT Sales Revenue.

> "only about a billion dollars of California wine is sold abroad"

That's Sales revenue [1]

> "So 98% of California wine is sold within the US. Only 2% is exported."

The data is right on the page you shared.

  Total shipments 2024 [0] (in millions of 9-liter cases):
  California wine shipments to US and export: 232.3
  California wine shipments to US: 203.5
  --> Export: 28,8

There's no data for 2025, but wine exports fell by ~20% in 2025 [1], if TOTAL wine shipments fell equally this is quite a strong dent in volumes already in 2025. So 2026 doesn't look rosy to begin with before any trade-war being added...

> "It's pretty funny if you think about it, you have some Bosnian dude [..]"

Let's not do that please.

[0] https://wineinstitute.org/our-industry/statistics/california...

[1] https://wineinstitute.org/our-industry/statistics/us-wine-ex...

Export volume (millions of gallons):

  2025: 53.4
  2024: 66.9
  2023: 57.6
  2022: 77.3
  2021: 89.4
  2020: 99.1

[0] Association of California wineries: https://wineinstitute.org/our-industry/statistics/us-wine-ex...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-08-26/california...

The point is that Nokia was in the telecom sector for DECADES before the Microsoft acquisition of the Handset Division you mentioned.

> "and a large part of the fief war was driven by the legacy telco people being unhappy about the upstart mobile people now calling the shots."

Citation needed. Equally I have no idea what that has to do with my initial point that the device business was used to drive the infrastructure business.