You don't even need demand eternal support. Just say that if manufacturers want their product to expire like milk, then they can damn well print an expiry date on the package, too.
How would ""Will cease functioning on " affect consumer purchasing decisions?
I've only ever seen goog.le looks used in spam and phishing emails, so I'm not particularly sad about this
Of course, there's roughly eighty million other folks who think they've each done a short link provider better, somehow, so this won't make much of a difference beyond not relying on the bots at Google to deal with abuse problems.
Unfortunately, we know how this is going to go: "If you won't let us ban books from the library, we'll just ban the library."
I'm waiting for the inevitable "this lawsuit is so scary we might have to fire another four thousand people..."
Yeah, at a certain scale you're not paying for the technology.. you're paying for a scapegoat.
"We just love our customers so much, it makes us crazy sometimes..."
I think their point is that when everyone's income is $0/hr price becomes pretty much irrelevant (unless also $0)
Put another way: I'm not going to believe in a new product more than the vendor does, because that's stupid. And we've had it demonstrated time and time again that the vendors don't believe in their products.
The author wrote it based on actual things that have really happened (and, clearly, are continuing to happen)
The story in the article about the guy who tried to get into the cockpit is amazing... he's lucky he didn't get himself killed by the other passengers. Since that little incident twenty years ago even Granny will chew on your face if it looks like you're pulling that shit.