Apple charges ridiculous prices for SSDs and RAM.

You expected something else?

Seems more like the end-result is serious problems don't get addressed and only the worst laws get passed.

Also, out of the reach of adblockers or tracking blockers.

Sure, but on mobile people don't run ad blockers very often and if they do it's system wide like AdGuard.

It's a lot easier to run browser based ad blockers now than it used to be. Mobile Safari now allows them and installing an adblock extension in Firefox for Android is as easy as on desktop.

But what about Amazon's entire services business?

Tough luck, the UK gave up its voice in the EU willingly. No one forced Brexit on you.

Actually it kind of is. The majority don't want it. People got tricked into voting for it (heck no one knew what they were voting for). A slim majority hold everyone hostage by saying will of the people, everyone who voted knew they were voting for no deal. Lot's of deception and big money on the leave side with possible Russian troll bots trolling away on facebook riling up English pride etc.

A major change like that should not have been decided by a slim majority. Normally changes in parliament that are big require some super majority. It was a dubious narrow win, and according to polls the old people who voted leave are dead and it's a clear majority to remain.

You got a small group of hardliners in the majority government holding them hostage. The government who lost most of their seats in the vote after the referendum (kind of showing that people didn't really want it) but only held on due to a sneaky pairing up with a small Irish party called the DUP.

No one wants the deal offered, no one (but a few hardliners) wants no deal. Most want to remain but it's being forced on us because "will of the people". It's madness.

Well Brexit kind of is being forced upon the people Scotland and Northern Ireland who voted to remain (and, as Arethuza correctly noted, it's now likely that a majority of the UK population overall are against it anyway).

That the narrow result of a single vote is seen as sufficient justification to wildly swing a government's policy in a new direction with huge effects over decades is... baffling to me. Watching it happen is like seeing something announced by someone pretending to be a US President in a Saturday Night Live sketch and then, the next day, everyone treating it like a real thing that had happened and the whole state's policy shifting to reflect those statements, and no-one acting like that's extremely weird and insane.

You’ve put my feeling into words far better than I could have

Perhaps worth reminding everyone that a lot of people in the UK (probably the majority by this point) are actually pro EU.

And more people in the US voted for Clinton than Trump, yet here we are.

Facebook already got their access back, I assume the block on Google won't last all that long, either.

Presumably FB got it back after signing in blood that they were only going to use this for internal, non-public releases

I believe Apple will do everything they can to keep them from abusing the ToS, but I also believe Facebook will try to work around any and every restriction applied to them.

Yeah, well, but Apple can always reject apps that violate their ToS, or revoke keys used to work around that. So ultimately Facebook can't win.

Except if they force Apple to nuke all of their apps, which would put Apple in a difficult position. But perhaps Apple could sandbox apps, and prevent them from doing stuff that violates ToS.

Yes, and revoking the enterprise key wasn't punitive. It was the only way to reliably kill the violating apps.

This makes no sense, but is a common talking point. How is net neutrality "another push for controlling the internet/media"? If anything, it's the pure opposite, ensuring that all views can be accessed equally.

The old "net neutrality" did nothing directly for end users. It did not ensure anything for all views. Before it was even terminated, mass censorship (privately by the internet giants) had already started.

Instead, it benefited the likes of Netflix at the expense of the telecom industry. It also put the internet in a legal classification that would allow more government control of speech, though this had not yet been much of an issue in practice.

None of the above seems to have made much of a difference to end users.

It would be great to have a new sort of net neutrality, focused on end users. A nice thing about the end of the old one is that a new one could replace it, giving people what they mistakenly thought they had.

That impression is wrong.

Pretty much all of them?

My expectation is far far lower. And those that are might not still be decent after an upgrade (and you won't know if the hardware or software you buy will be of another revision).

Hardware that happens to be popular are often updated to a cheaper variant where the manufacturer rides on the fame and good reviews of the original version.

So you can't even do the research once and expect it to hold for future purchases/replacements.

Well, instead having "expectations", how about just checking it yourself before spreading FUD?

No amount of FUD comes close to the reality when it comes to home routers.

usrusr explained it nicely. It will likely take years before anyone will realize that the firewall doesn't work at all. Whereas a similarly broken NAT router will be declared DOA.

You didn't miss anything, that's what the show is.