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I think this is a good point. Maybe GCP is failing at communicating why things are changing.
As a customer, I'd be fine with GCP doing things to keep their costs down so GCP pricing stays the same or decreases. But I understand this is hard to quantify outside GCP and requires a bit of faith (which I accept as inherent, since full transparency is impossible).
Perhaps I'd say that "you're crazy if you keep all your IT on it, as you scale".
And by scale, I think companies should be at least in the double digit millions spent in cloud infrastructure before they start building out their own. Everybody is used to the cloud APIs and going back to the old days of managing things in a static datacenter are not coming back for these companies.
I think there are a Android launchers the mimick the WP aesthetics. No need for a new OS or device for that.
Much easier to go with Electron. The choice is made for you. With native Windows, it's a dozen different solution and you waste timing playing future teller to imagine which one won't be abandoned in the future. At least with Electron you can reuse your skills with websites and it's pretty established now. Yes, it's not as fast but it's fast enough.
Is Cleveland an outlier of sorts? I expected broadband to be much cheaper in the US. Here in South America, I pay $30 USD/month for 1Gbps up/down. Considering all the equipment is imported, that seems way cheaper.
May I quote?
We, *people who really understand the technology* that the world runs on, are a slowly dying breed
Thus one has to conclude that young people, not having perseverance, do not really understand technology (and lacking such basic skill, never will).
$9.5B worldwide is peanuts. Likely it's not worth to recycle (could even cost more than you get back), from a pure economic perspective.
Does it matter how they organize their services? Your experience and environment will be different in so many ways that I doubt it's comparable.
Road workers laying out asphalt don't start from chemistry first principles either.
perseverance to really understand all those things by diving into obscure, historical manuals.
You say you were lucky to be there in the beginning and that young people don't have this advantage.
Then you conflate your own luck with perseverance.
It's just a reflection of humanity in general. Nothing special.
C# has always been pretty good about evolving the language.
Java has recently left the freezer and seems to be catching up as well. I don't use Java but I see people excited about new releases since v11 or so.
They overcome limitations of most social profiles not being flexible enough. Kind of useful but easily made obsolete once said social networks improve things.