>If I tell people I'm a programmer, I generally am competing with the perception that I am socially awkward. People assume I'm like some Big Bang Theory character until I prove otherwise. I don't like that stereotype, but it never stopped me from learning to code, or even was a thought that crossed my mind.
People thinking you're socially awkward is different from people sexually harassing you at work.
The takeover going through is the logical conclusion of free markets - a monopoly is very profitable for shareholders. All signs pointed to the market wanting this deal to go through, there was a Bloomberg article a couple weeks ago saying that half the votes counted indicated that all of Broadcom's candidates for the board would win.
> The existence of Apple at all today is exactly because people perceive a value greater than the sum of the cost of parts.
yes and Apple loves that and that's why it makes its phones notoriously hard to repair or upgrade. that's why there are no SD card slots. that's why you have to buy an overpriced Apple exclusive lightning earphones or connector or whatever.
everyone is acting like the price of the phone must go up so much if it has higher storage, like there is no other engineering option.
People thinking you're socially awkward is different from people sexually harassing you at work.