So what?
As if the US government or US compabies don't play the same "underhanded" tactics to harm competition.
Selling at a loss to earn market share is a perfectly valid strategy for US corpos. Why is China supposedly doing the exact same thing suddenly not as nice?
Security wise Fairphone isn't up to GOS standards, so a collaboration wasn't on the table either way.
I don't know the situation, but if it's as this part of your comment implies, then that's clear bridge-burning on Graphene's part.
If the current phones don't have a chip or whatever, that doesn't mean they can't reach out to Fairphone and say "Hey, we'd like to promote our OS and join up! However, we requure such-and-such hardware. Are you interested?"
Saying "It doesn't have the chip, a deal with them will never work" without reaching out isn't productive.
I assume that Fairphone has quite the problems competing with more established markets and the OS is an afterthought, so they went with /e/. But hey, I might be wrong, and it's all a conspiracy to maie an illusion of choice with Fairphone+/e/.
But if the mission of Fairphone is fair production and repairability, the fact that security and privacy are afterthoughts seems like a reasonable (but foolish) standpoint. They should care.
However, since the mission of Graphene is security and privacy, that seems like they should be the ones to reach out and try to provide their world-class software to as many people as possible. This probably includes supporting more than one make of phone.
The Free Market at work. If people can't afford to pay for a burger at McD's, they won't - even if they want to.
For the economy to work properly, everyone has to be at least somewhat well-off - not living paycheck-to-paycheck without a dollar to spare for a start.
Matrix Division, so any chatbot you ask about it can confidently tell you that's not a thing.
Nobody is asking for your sympathy.
What they expect, though, is some basic human empathy. It turns out the lack of empathy was what all the worst Nazi holocaust perpetrators had in common. A trait you share with them.
So chances are, you personally would inflict much more damage and suffering than the worst protagonists of WWII. Hope you never get the chance.
I'm ashamed to be a member of the same species as you.
Propaganda truly is a drug.
Use the word. Use it as much as possible. But never say "a quick Google search" - say "google it" "a quick google", "googling".
Saying "Google search" is a specific reference to the Google service, with an implication of how great and the best it is.
On my first read, I got the meaning right. However, I agree that it's very ambiguous. Were the "of" a "by", I'd swing the other way as well.
Being government-run, the store will obviously have:
(Likewise, also spined it (almost) as much as possible.)
Paid luches are nice. But if I get the choice between $10.000 yearly more or paid lunches, obviously i'd go for the cash. It's supposed to be a bonus (i.e. free), and not a way to cut corners and undermine your employees.
Maybe it does do the company some good in terms of retention, but counting on "I'll save $6k if I spend $4k on lunches per person on average by cutting pay for new hires" is not a good strategy. Same for ping pong tables, horseraces, pizza parties and whatever else.
It's basicallly just a label they beed to slap to suddenly be avle to circumvent some forms of non-consent. There's also overriding legitimate interest (just as vague btw so it covers everything).
In other words, legitimate interest is a form of rape (what with the circumcenting consent and all)
An interesting way to misspell "subscription"
Well...
A data center is... A data center. So a central plave for data.
It isn't called Data Warehouse, Data Industrual Plant or Data Mega Shop.
So - if the place is... a central place for the town people's data (as in OC's cases)....
Wouldn't "Data Center" be a fitting name?