Wow, you downvoters are harsh. Okay I learned my lesson not to assume someone has a phone or PC next to them and can simply flip a switch in a matter of 30 seconds. Cool.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm surprised it's taking this long, honestly. He's such an icon and major player in the history of the computer industry.
Edit>> Though I suppose there's a confirmation process HN goes through before sporting the black band.
I completely support thwarting monopolistic practices and even trying to prevent them from being possible. I just hope Blizzard can one day be completely divorced from Activision. Whether Microsoft is a better fit, I cannot say, but I do feel as if Blizzard has been making one poor decision after another ever since the acquisition in 2008 -- and only very recently have things looked somewhat brighter for them.
If the UX wasn't garbage I'd defend it, too. It has a lot of nice features and integrations. But the UX changes they have made in the recent past (few years-ish), made it worse, for me.
And, in my opinion, the reason some other company hasn't come along and toppled it: critical mass. It's the same reason Epic is king in the hospital IT world. The UI/UX can be garbage (and it's so much worse with Epic than with JIRA), but organizations will still stick with it, because it's what they know.
Get Blizzard games (WoW especially) to work perfectly all the time with minimal effort, and I'm down to switch for good. I tried VFIO (lots of effort), and it worked great for Blizzard games, but showed massive frame loss in games like Jedi: Fallen Order.