Absolutely love the Vonng (sp?) Stories! Don’t exist in the force? Let’s see what a grandson of Vader has to say about that after weeks in the cradle! Oh, what? Found them? Bam!

I also love that the first SW novel I read was Rogue Planet. Really great tie-in with the YV storylines.

It’s :checksnotes: sarcasm.

windows phone was a joke

No. It was leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else. They just sat on their hands and didn’t do anything with it, allowing Google, RiM and Apple to steamroll them.

And to blame Microsoft (which – don’t get me wrong – is hugely evil and truly is the cause behind many of the problems you properly identify) for all of the tech problems without a hat tip to IBM is missing some important details. IBM showed the tech world that if you use your war chest to drag out a legal battle long enough, you will eventually get a president in power (Reagan) that you own enough to dismiss all claims. That’s how Microsoft got off without even a fine for all their antitrust violations. They played the long game and George W. waved a hand, making the enforcement effort go away.

Breathe in… Good… Now please enable location access in settings, and be sure to – exhale – enable background data access… Feel better?

Seems there’s still some work to do to remove tracking and Google notification services. When it’s on F-Droid, maybe more folks will try it.