They could have used a different system (LLVM?) and Java would have become irrelevant on mobiles.

Sure, but instead they decided to capitalize on the existing market of J2ME and Symbian Java developers with tricks to sidestep Java licensing on mobile devices.

And nowadays Android holds hostage any Java developer that wants to target Android, because one needs to constrain ourselves to Android Java's view of the world.

Then their engineers are not very good, because all the improvements now come from Google (Night Sight, 3D gestures), Huawei (5x zoom), Samsung (60MP sensor), Oppo/Xiaomi (front camera behind the display) and so ones.

Without commenting specifically on the features you mentioned, I'll just observe that being first to market with a particular feature doesn't mean that you have the best implementation of that feature.

So either Apple is a class-leader in R&D or they wait till others have cut their teeth on tech before adopting it, thereby minimize their costs but are also not leaders in R&D and dont have others stealing from their work. Which is it?

This is one experience. I have some exchanges with paypal and their answers were perfectly accurate and personalized. After many transactions, I have no reason to complain for now. About the case of the OP, I once had 2000€ credited on my bank account for no reason. I knew it was an error and did not touch it. Several days after, the amount was silently debited. No message from the bank. This is not specific to Paypal.

>Several days after, the amount was silently debited. No message from the bank. This is not specific to Paypal.

Except if you asked the bank, they'd say there was a system error we had to correct, sorry for the inconvenience, please take our survey. PayPal will say you sent/refunded the money, we never touched these funds and can do no wrong, and if you can't produce documents that never existed related to this transaction that was entirely in error you can kiss your account goodbye.

The point is that I would certainly buy this car have I the money, despite minor drawbacks (not "horrendous" based on the video).

> Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are continuing to tweak their recipes. The Impossible Burger 2.0, for example, launched earlier this year and was designed to be substantially healthier (and tastier) than the original, with less fat and sodium.

The last sentence cancels the whole purpose of the article. Sodium is the main concern and new recipe use less sodium. Problem solved.

You can avoid the effort to use the uppercase key and write wasm (or Wasm), that is the correct typography. Asm in wasm is acronym for nothing.

Asm for Assembly, so maybe WAsm is correct?

A late and desperate reaction as explained in many articles about the crash of the 737 max and its economical and technical causes.

I suppose you are speaking of A7 II? Overheating is a problem for video only, and fixed on the A6400. Their technology is ahead of competition, not "meh". But it is a shame they do not have full touch screen, for some reason.

The camera body gets warm (not uncomfortably warm, but annoyingly so) after shooting stills for a while when the outside temperature is high. And it rebooted on its own quite a few times when I was traveling in my home country.

This also contributes to extra sensor noise in long exposure shots in the dark, which Sony tries to mitigate with software. This leads to the infamous 'star eater' scenario.