Did you forget about Sidekick? Microsoft bought a trendy phone and then it died it because some manager thought they didn't need to backup the SAN before upgrading the drive firmware. You can read the story here and here.

Not necessarily. Cellular problems are often a back-haul issue and that is something Starlink does much better at. The flip side, is that I would not want to use a Starlink in even a moderately dense area.

They might have cell service, but it is often a weak signal that is then sent by microwave from tower to tower and those links often don't have enough bandwidth for anything useful.

I have some friends who lived on a property that was only 10 mins from the nearest town of 83 000 people and the reception was so bad there that they had to go by satellite dish which had latency so bad that they could not video conference. They signed on as soon as there was a Starlink beta program in their area and I heard from them that getting StarLink was a life changer even with the early glitches.

Why should Netflix care if you are actually watching it or not? You pay for a subscription and for whatever reason that was the content you played. Netflix will therefore keep playing that content. When it comes to revenue, it just doesn't matter what you do with the content.

At any rate, whatever flaws there are in the stats, they are far more accurate than TV viewership numbers.

Correct

Note quite, the dealers often have their own roadside assistance that costs more than AA/AAA/CAA (depending on where you live)

AAA is not expensive, but you are right. If you are going someplace remote, plan for it. And those plans had better include an actual jack that will take more trunk space than the piece of crap they ship with the car.

The jacks that come with many ICE cars are a joke anyways. I will never forget trying to change the tire on my friend's BMW only to have the jack fail. In the end I called road side who pulled out a real jack, fixed the tire and then asked "Why even bother trying to do it yourself?"

About half of the time the extra box is too big and then not padded correctly causing the contents to bounce around and receive more damage than it would have gotten without the extra packaging.

Don't even get me started on the box in a box in a box I got last week. The building Janitor resents the amount of recycling I put out every week.