It's very telling that they are moving away from the Nokia brand as well, probably looking to terminate the license agreement to recoup some costs
It appears that the flagship route didn't work out for them (I rode my Nokia 8 for as long as I could, but the storage was giving me problems.)
Much like when Motorola went into zombie brand mode (after being sold to Lenovo) they leaned hard on the midrange which appeared to do ok, as well as their feature phones.
Google giving up on KaiOS was probably the other killer, money had to go into redeveloping their feature phone software.
I remember this being discussed at length on various forums at the time (the legality, questions about what would happen if it all fell into the sea.) but as with so much of the Internet, it appears to have been largely lost. Luckily I was not imagining things this time and did find a couple of references.
Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation | Ars Technica
Remember when they tried to buy Sealand?
Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.
Brocollini is a licensed trademark
Relevant xkcd
They've decided to step up the arms race because they've hit peak daily user count and the only thing they can promise to the board is force increasing premium memberships. I take it channel "memberships" are also not hitting the numbers they would like and they haven't destroyed Nebula or Patreon as they'd hoped.
If this would have surprised no one they wouldn't have done it and just ate the cost of office spaec. No, there's people out there who still think company loyalty is a thing and that fostering a "company culture" is actually viable.
"One More Lane Bro is the only option, I checked, and it should be subsidised by NYT who make too much money." - Robert Moses
Oh God do I even want to know what they've trained for their AI image generator? Will it ironically be the only one that can show mixed race couples?
OH HEY EVERYONE, EVERYONE, THIS GUY LIKES JSON
Fuck you and your unstructured garbage.