An organization only has so much mental capacity to focus on challenges. Having a required repair-ability goal would hinder the pace of innovation.

It might be worth the hit, but naive to think such an accomplishment is without innovation cost.

Isn't innovation frequently a result of limitations?

Buying 1 Mibps means you can use up to 1Mibps. Paying $/GiB means you can use 100s of Gibps for a split second and only pay the $/GiB fee.

In the past i did a TCO comparison for a large spikey workload where the $/GiB cost even at list was cheaper than allocating enough bandwidth for peak events.

At small scale the $/Mibps likely comes out cheaper, but for any large company sitting on 100s of Gibps of excess capacity for an event that occurs once or twice a year, or a few hours per day is very costly and might eat up savings from p99/p95th billing.

the market caps of each department spun out is likely greater than the current market cap of Amazon today.

That is assuming the companies would all be as successful being spun out.

In a way that's the case with every company. Each part is more valuable on it's own, unless it's more valuable together with another part. :P

btw, it looks like you have some sort of shadowban. I don't see any terrible comments among your last 20 or so, so you might want to ask @dang if he can look into your case.

Why do you say this person is under shadow ban? As far as I know if they are in shadowban only they can see their comments?

Might even see negative gain.

Often time the query perf per machine goes down as you move from a single node, indexed, postgresql To a multi node unstructured data.

If you don’t have so much data or unstructured data. Why use the more complex and generally slower per FLOP solution.

So does this mean your car can be deprecated?

6 year deal is substantially less than the life of a car.

I can’t say anything great about old android devices. Large numbers left on older versions with security flaws

45% of Americans use an iPhone. That would require users across the economic spectrum.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/236550/percentage-of-us-...

It's users, as a percentage of mobile phone users (80% of population). So if a family have one iPhone, they can all count as users.

iPhone only bring affordable to richer people who mostly want the latest means lots of second hand items. I'll warrant Android users at the lower end keep their phones longer.

Anthos is closer to openstack than the cloud on-prem.

The appeal of cloud is so much more than software and apis.

Outposts might be priced higher to reduce demand. Allowing them time to iron out the kinks.

It’s a common pattern where you aren’t yet ready to scale up to handle the demand at a lower price point.

I think they are also trying to balance not losing money since there's no egress charges for data coming out of the Outpost and into the customer's data center. I imagine for some use cases, that cannibalizes some revenue.

Doesn’t matter. See Australia. The CCP would gladly withhold teleco infra gear or back door in an update to suit their needs.

Sure USA might do the same. But the USA is aligned closer culturally and values wise to the rest of the west

And you can always use a generator to charge your ev. Or solar.