Yet apple will still charge $200 for 128gb

In a market economy. I'd never sign up to be slave to a single corporation that has complete control of my life and livelihood.

You're not renting air and water. You have a market of options to choose from. None of those things will be true in space.

You'd have zero control over your existence. Someone else would own that station and you'd exist entirely at their whim. They would decide if you get food, air, water, shelter. No real access to nature. I'd rather die.

Not the way I'd want to spend the rest of my life, that's for sure.

It will take a very long time indeed before we can reach another habitable planet enough to alleviate an exponentially growing population, and forced birth control will be unpopular, not to mention probably employed as eugenics by those in power against those who aren't.

I didn't mind having something light and built in for when I just wanted quickly to create a little rich text doc and not boot up full fat Word and the corresponding jump in resource usage and file size.

You'd have to experience death for the clone to continue being the only copy.

Is a forever expanding population of old people much better?

That's a pity. I work for a large US software company and after the war began, we made a decision to close all operations inside Russia.

We gave our employees in Russia a choice, they could either stay in Russia and get a pretty nice severance package, or they could move out of Russia and get a pretty nice repatriation package to the country of their choosing. Many went to expensive places like Sweden and got their packages converted to local pay with many months extra pay for moving expenses.

We didn't fire any Russians living outside of Russia, of course. Assuming everyone from a country is a spy is pretty silly.

Not only that, there are products you can buy right now with solid state batteries. The first power brick with a solid state battery is actually available for purchase.

So why isn't it happening?