It doesn’t even matter if it’s hard work. Flippers take advantage of a market inefficiency, and just like everyone who does that, they make the market less inefficient. That’s a good thing even when it’s easy.
SawStop table saw. It‘a a great saw in general, but what absolutely blew me away was the assembly. Extremely well thought out, from the order in which boxes of parts are opened, to the instructions, to the assembly procedure itself. I could not come up with a single improvement.
There are also plenty of lawyers who would take a binding arb case on contingency. Amazon wrote the contract, but that doesn’t mean the arbitrator is in the bag for them.
It’s hard to prove a negative. But after years of investigations, no support for any of its notable claims has been found. And now we’re learning that it was indeed based on lies.
The most modern codec, which is patent-encumbered and supported mainly by one company. If Apple changes their mind about it in 5 years, everyone else might well follow suit. I don’t have concerns like that for open, non-bleeding-edge formats.
> Worse, Chase even openly admits to being hostile to Linux and BSD to someone on Reddit. It’s something even Microsoft, Windows PC/hardware OEMs, or Apple won’t do.
If you click through to the link, you will see that this claim is totally made up.