The fact that it wasn't way more than 4 million is disturbing to me. The fact that a huge company like that thinks it's cool to effectively steal (hope they lose all the lawsuits) from others is really, really scummy. I closed my PayPal account as a result.

Except it cost 40-100% more for everything than running lean on-prem.

As a recent convert due to no one in my entire extended family not seeing iPhone as a "status symbol", and refusing to use anything but Facetime, I swapped from Android. If Apple interfaced well with stuff outside their walled garden ecosystem it would be better for everyone. My point here is: The Google Assistant was at least 10 years ahead of Siri and while they've closed the gap a bit, I think Siri is still about 4-5 years behind Google. They have a long way to go.

Yeah, get him, something something something proprietary, something something something danger to the network. (CALM DOWN VERIZON, unlocked phones aren't going to ruin your network). In all seriousness, OpenWRT, DDWRT provide much higher levels of performance and functionality on most of the devices than the stock firmware. If you have one of these devices or an "American" one like Linksys you should really check it out.

Am I the only one who read this and thought that? I actually giggled. To be clear I'm not trying to offend anyone and I'm not saying men are superior, nothing of that kind, just read two males = bigger mice.

Agreed, I was going to post the same. We have no idea. They could, and probably are lying, or there is something not right with the model we aren't seeing. They have intentionally gimped hardware to keep them behind, and if there was an easier, cheaper, just as good way, the US companies would be doing it.

This was being developed as a weaponized virus at the research facility, it leaked out because someone made a mistake. China has probably murdered anyone with information to confirm or deny this they don't trust to make sure that word never gets out. This is essentially a dead end at this point. China will continue to do stupid shit like this until someone holds them accountable because at this point the Chinese government leadership knows they can do whatever they want and get away with it.