First time reading El Reg?

You could make smart inferences based on past and very frequent occurrences.

Or you could just say "there is no way the thing that constantly happens over and over again has happened once again, just no way".

Staff cuts constantly happen in the name of maximising profits. They always yield poor results for a company's performance. Every time. Especially for the consumer's side of it (not the company's finances of course).

Every time.

But maybe this time it's different. That one time.

i mean, you can assume if its on theregister its not going to have some kind of academic rigor or whatever it might be you're looking for. its the register, same basic rigor quality as the ny post.

that said, my suspicion is they're likely on to something here regarding layoffs and quality degradation.