Sure, if you're talking about a pre-seed stage startup with a single product 20 years ago. Meta/Facebook isn't that anymore, and hasn't been that for a very long time. Say what you want about Zuck, but the fact he more or less successfully has been running one the worlds largest tech companies of the century is pretty impressive.
What other products do they have other than those they acquired? 98% of their revenue is from advertising on Facebook and Instagram (according to their financial reports).
Well, I think it's more likely that the fact that it's a notebook will make this less of a PR issue. HN is kind of a unique place, but out in reality land the set of people who take their 15" notebook with them everywhere, including the airplane, is much smaller than the number of people who take their phones with them everywhere. So it's hard to capture the public imagination with a notebook.
Apple releasing a new phone is an event not only for a lot of developers, but also for your average teeny bopper and housewife.
Also, most people aren't going to grab a camera and start filming when their laptop catches fire in their house so they can post it to the internet. That limits the number of videos like this you'd expect compared to a similar smartphone fault, which is more likely to happen in public with other people standing around idle that might film it. I'd venture a guess that this is very far from being the first such fault in four years, especially given how willing Apple was to announce a recall.
Also, I think the fact that Samsung's first fix turned out to not fix the issue at all help blow the problem up from embarrassing launch snafu to major fail.
All we know is that there's one incident, and now there is a recall. If there was no endemic issue, there should not reasonably be a recall; there's been handfuls of stories about iPhones burning up that have not ended up resulting in recalls, presumably because they're isolated issues.
I don't actually know how many Note 7's burnt up before they recalled, but I don't think it was ever very many. The main difference in this case is whatever issue exists, it was relatively benign for at least four years, which I agree hints that the issue is far less severe. But of course, no less dangerous.
I can't tell if this is a humorist take on the issue or not because its so completely off base. If you were really a knowledgeable LA resident you would realize that the Valley actually pays for most of LA's expenses (which is why the vote to make the Valley a separate city decades ago failed), but also more importantly realize that there is a lot more to LA's traffic situation than just the 405 and 110 chokepoints.
The simple fact of the matter is that LA has a serious housing and urban planning crisis with no real solution. The city has already been investing heavily in public transportation for years now with multiple heavy rail lines been under construction (purple and crenshaw) and some already opened (gold) - but the fact of the matter is that until a public transportation system that can replicate the freeway system - meaning a system that can replicate both the breadth and depth of the system (Think a 'good' Euro rail system spread across a 30-60 mile radius) - LA will always be a congested mess - unless a paradigm shift in transportation occurs (hyperloop, Uber Elevate, etc.)
Well, as a Clippers fan, Ballmer is such a step up (albeit such a low bar from Sterling). Being an NBA owner is a lot easier than running one of the world's largest companies: Be willing to pay for a few smart/modern execs, splurge on a few players, and the rest kind of runs itself.
Oh, and be in the second largest media market in the country.
