I think this is a bit like Apple using Samsung SoCs. The consumer-facing parts of the business hate each other; the B2B units have a more reasonable view of each other.
I agree that a Free Tier is the best way to get you to adopt a tool. I'd love to build and test at very small scale, then start paying when I've launched and scaling.
The best was definitely the remove of cell limits and row limits. If I remember correctly, it used to be at 50k linrs , which you reach in no time. The new spreadsheets are way faster indeed!
New limits are here:
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603?hl=en
Number of cells: 400,000 total cells across all sheets - this is the one i don't like. If you log substantial amount of columns, it fills up pretty quickly
Number of columns: 256 columns per sheet
Number of formulas: 40,000 cells containing formulas across all sheets
Number of tabs: 200 sheets per workbook
GoogleFinance formulas: 1,000 GoogleFinance formulas
"All spreadsheet limits mentioned above have been removed in the new version of Google Sheets. The new version of Google Sheets should support 2 million cells of data, though please note that extremely large spreadsheets may have slower performance. Learn more about switching to the new version of Google Sheets."
I'm very surprised at some stances taken on this map. Only a handful of countries have the censorship badge, whereas reports globally indicate otherwise... I'm thinking of Turkey, but also South Korea, and others...
I think the fight that Tesla got into is rather an other example of businesses, the car dealers, that exist solely because of legal restriction allowing them to exist, not because there is a market need.
The added value of car dealers is extremely limited, and is rather an archaic leftover of previous times. Fighting for these business models is I believe completely ridiculous. It's like fighting for the CD industry or the Print/Paper industry.
How about the Google DNS ban? I think that ban has way more impact on net neutrality. Banning a website, even though it's blatantly bad, is common practice in a lot of countries. Blocking a DNS is basically forcing people to use specific 'approved' services.
The answer to the question is YES, but the article is inaccurate on the main features of the Paperwhite. Unlike smartphones and tablets like the iPad, the Kindle Paperwhite isn't back-lit, but front-lit, which make all the difference in the world for your eyes.