Why can't they just remove the wrong bid from the market? And redo the auction or use a reasonable average?

It seems they treat this as an irreversible mistake.

Why don't you start a nice free thing for us to enjoy freely.

DI.fm is no longer freely listenable, they severely limited the free offering.

Snaps move the packaging burden from the distribution to the software maker, which is how it should be. It's the only scalable way.

Imagine Microsoft having to package the millions of distinct Windows applications.

In early 2000 a lot of photographers were saying that digital photography is not "real", it doesn't have a "soul", it should not be allowed in photo contests and it's just worthless in general.