Not entirely sure if its a comparable case, but first thing that comes to my mind is 2011 PSN outage[1].
I guess any change of that magnitude should take an unprecedent effort to resolve.
I was playing around a bit and it really looks promising! There's some key missing features (like, selecting multiple items) and bugs (ctrl + v not working for me at least), but as an MVP is remarkable.
Thanks for sharing.
You could take an interpretation that big players getting a different rate than small players isn't special treatment but normal procedure, so a big player not being given the big player rate is the special treatment. The problem with any language dealing with equality is that there are different ways to define equal and very specific definitions can result in different results. This is also true for the concept of random and there is even a mathematical paradox related to this (which is great for stripping off all the baggage that real world examples bring with them).
Although configuration can be a bit problematic at first, the benefits of using Storybook are clear. In my previous job, the typical question of "Is there a component for something like <X>?" was pretty much resolved going to Storybook and check for it.
This is my case, although with a little caveat. I used to smoke 1 pack (20 cigars) per day, but right at the same time that I read that COVID-19 was more dangerous for smokers, my preferred brand (Gold Leaf) got discontinued. Im not superstitious, but this was kind of "Yeah, this is the moment".
Was smoker for more than 15 years.
WA is not ubiquitous in some big parts of the world. It's not like it is ubiquitous in "the rest of the world". In China at least WeChat takes the crown and I don't know about other Asian countries.
Lets not make WA seem more "unavoidable" or seem more ubiquitous than it really is. It's got sufficient network effect already.
But different corporations are selfish/ruthless/exploitative in different ways, and organizing our thinking about the ways in which a for-profit organization acts selfishly/ruthlessly/exploitatively helps us make our own decisions and craft our own strategies for getting what we want from them, or choosing with whom we do business.
Look at companies like Monsanto (their sins probably don't need mentioning). Or Volkswagen (cheating on environmental tests) or Goldman Sachs or... anyone. Every major company will ALWAYS throw ethics under the bus, it just depends on their situation which ethics they feel great about tossing away. Trying to figure out who the "good guy" is doesn't matter, none of them are.
I'm not a communist, but Microsoft is literally doing the (amoral) thing that is in their best interest. Hate the game not the player I guess?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outag...