seanj

The only battery bloat I’ve seen was with the two phones issued to me by my company for software development purposes. The battery on the Samsung bloated and smashed the casing, while the battery on the Apple had no issues.
As for the supposed limited lifespan of Apple batteries... the battery on my 2005 Black MacBook is still fine and doing well.

tundraboy said:

These building owners and landlords are far more well off than me or you.  Most of them are mega corporations in their own right. 

Actually the landlords in many cases are pension funds or the major shareholders of the corporations are pension funds. These funds are there to build up pensions for ordinary working people.

elijahg I don't support the EU in the slightest, and their motives are purely protectionist in nature. But saying the EU (which you are synonymising with Europe) has no tech capabilities is just plain ignorant. Has the location of ARM passed you by? And Ericsson, Nokia, ST, Infineon, Siemens?

I think the location of ARM has passed you by... It's located in Cambridge in the United Kingdom / Great Britain.The UK is NOT in the EU, we left at the end of January - one of the few good things about 2020.

But as the EU has just lost the second highest contributor to its budget - £15 billion each year - it's looking for other funds, especially with the southern Eurozone countries being bankrupt. Seems that fines appear to be its new funding model.

USB 2 and HDMI ports? Why didn't go the whole retro thing and add an RS232 port as well  

pujones1 said:

Money grab again for the UK? Like they are always after an American company for something and it ALWAYS ENDS IN A FINE $$.

“AGAIN”??
Pray tell what previous money grab has the UK made? How much did it get?
You should check your facts before ranting unfounded allegations.