If the thrown-together design of TWC's official app is any indication, I find it more likely that the previous leadership knew that software wasn't their specia

If the thrown-together design of TWC's official app is any indication, I find it more likely that the previous leadership knew that software wasn't their specialty and (rightfully) shied away from building software businesses before they became worth prioritizing in the first place. Now that they can amortize the costs of such development over the entire Charter-TWC group, it may very well become worthwhile... not to mention that they'll be looking for new profit centers given the demise of cable [0]. So our insulation from this may be short-lived. To your parenthetical point, I actually find it fascinating from a psychological perspective that someone like Ajit Pai can present himself as, and very possibly believe himself to be, a "man of the people" while simultaneously literally making a mockery of their interests [1]. Someone with a mind so ungrounded that it can function under that level of cognitive dissonance is as deserving of pity as they are of ire. (Or perhaps that's what I tell myself about most politicians so that my veins don't burst.) [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/charter-losing-time-warner-cable-tv-customers-as-it-imposes-new-pricing/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/chart... [1] https://gizmodo.com/ajit-pai-thinks-youre-stupid-enough-to-buy-this-crap-1821277398 https://gizmodo.com/ajit-pai-thinks-youre-stupid-enough-to-b...