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  Hmm, kinda? A lot of industrialization went hand-in-hand with losing customizability and things made to fit. A while ago I talked with a woman in her 90s and she said that when she was young, no serious TV moderator would have worn an ill-fitting off-the-shelf clothing. The same holds true for all sorts of articles: custom-made shoes, custom-made furniture, custom-made houses, for example. All that is relegated to the luxurity sector and most people just go with ill-fitting off-the-shelf indus...

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  There will likely be an iOS implementation, and Google doesn't care about the rest. They want you to get in line and install Google Play Services already (or buy a phone with it installed).

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  ICE? You mean the German electric high speed train? One could say the ICE doesn't have an ICE, unless ICE someone from ICE enters the ICE.

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  Why do programs written in Haskell not have side effects? To have side effects someone would have to run the programs.

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  "What a nice business you have there. It would be a right shame if something happened to it. Don't you want to pay us for your protection?" - Anthropic