by Henry Oliner | Dec 29, 2017 | Consumer, Ethics
Apple has taken some heat for the story that they intentionally throttled performance on their older phones. In the rush for those who always seek sinister motives from large companies, this is the rest of the story. Upgrades tend to use more power as new features are...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 10, 2014 | Business, Consumer, Politics
In a few previous posts I explored the dynamic of new commercial enterprises like Uber (read Uber Libertarians in American Thinker) that defied the ability of the regulatory state to deal with the rapid development of very large commercial communities. More on that...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 7, 2014 | Consumer, Economics, Politics
From The National Review George Will writes Government for the Strongest and Richest Intellectually undemanding progressives, excited by the likes of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) — advocate of the downtrodden and the Export-Import Bank — have at last noticed...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 1, 2014 | Consumer
From Today’s American Thinker, my article Uber Libertarians Excerpt: There are similar commercial communities among iPhone users, Amazon customers, and other enterprises. Such modern businesses scale up remarkably fast, creating huge commercial communities,...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 30, 2014 | Consumer, Culture, Politics
Kevin Williamson writes in National Review, Who Boycotts Walmart Excerpts: It is easy to scoff, but I am ready to start taking the social-justice warriors’ insipid rhetoric seriously — as soon as two things happen: First, I want to hear from the Wal-Mart-protesting...
