Your pen cannot sign a contract can purely because it doesn't have the capability to find a contract in your email, find a signature on your HD, and place that sig in the right place on that contract. If it did, then yes it would be capable of signing a contract just like Claude did in this case.
Honestly I'd be okay with it if Google and Apple decided that the current administrations actions are not legitimate, as long as they can properly justify it.
It's not their place to adjudicate the actions of the current administration. That's the job of the courts and Congress. That both are complacent is the actual issue at hand.
This should be handled exactly the same way it would be if the countries involved were China and India. Which is probably, people in China see the Chinese view, people in India see the Indian view, and everyone sees it as contested.
On the contrary, rules and regulations are written in blood, and airplanes are manufactured stronger in different ways because pilots took risks. The Wings don't shear off when the pilot yanks the yoke left and up because someone did before, and the Wings either fell off or didn't - but until it happened, the wings were an unknown quantity. And that's just one example.
That's basically the job description of a Test Pilot.
Exactly ... PE's wants shorterm return, just numbers in a sheetbook, and they special execs for such jobs. Their only "strategy" (my dog can figure out better) is aggresive monetization, layoffs pushing remaining employees to limits.
Profits goes up ... so the strategy must work, lets increase monetization more and do more layoffs.
Prices goes up, quality of service goes down.
After few years, everything goes down the drain, PE and their execs can't figure out what went wrong.
In most cases you have the causal effect of PE incorrect. By the time PE comes in, the company has already peaked and is on a downslope. The original owners know this, want to get out and sell. Blaming PE is like blaming vultures for the roadkill they are picking over.
And despite their patterns giving not that great returns they keep doing it. Mostly it's an income play vs capital appreciation anyway. If you wanted the capital gains pre-seed and seed are doing well. ACA had a report which I think also got mentioned in Bloomberg.
That's an oversimplification. Private Equity's goal is to take control of the business and change it so that it has higher resell value.
Often they do sell it for parts, or they enshitify the hell out of it to squeeze revenue from loyal customers. Not necessarily because it's the optimal strategy, but because truly fixing a business is hard and these are decent shortcuts from their perspective.
But that's not a given, sometimes they do truly turn it around for the better.
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