I think one reason people may not readily like R, is because it is a functional language. Most programmers are comfortable with object oriented programming rather than the functional style. It takes a while to get used to it.
I have seen people who started programming with R, and they get fluent in it pretty fast.
Not directly related, but see FATCA. Because of a US law, individuals in many countries who don't deal with US securities/markets, have to fill a form saying they don't have any direct investments in US, or that they are not a citizen/resident of US.
True, Netflix had the first mover advantage, but that's about it. Netflix will not have most of the entertainment content that is available in the world. As long as people have diverse interests, they have to continue paying subscription costs in one way or the other; instead of cable subscriptions it will be streaming subscriptions.
Also, to consider India or China as single countries, when they have a vast array of sub-countries/cultures within them, is to say the least, not an ideal situation. India, China, US are "super" countries with wide geographical, cultural and other differences within the countries.
I think support for OpenCI will eventually come to other frameworks. But the main problem is the fact that AMD is still far from the NVidia in terms of performance. Vega couldn't reach the performance of 1080Ti, and with Volta next year, the gap is gonna drastically increase. If only AMD can fill the gap, the support, i'm sure, will soon come after that.
No it won't. Especially if the price is competitive. Say for the price of 1 1080ti, if i can buy 1.5 units of comparable performance graphics card, i'll surely buy it. There are already resources being spent on OpenCI based ML/DL platforms (https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml). The architectures keep getting bigger and training time keeps getting longer. I think you underestimate this factor. I need as much gpu computing power as i can buy within the budget.
Only thing that I can say right now is that I use org-mode. The way I manage my personal projects is constantly changing for the past one year. I'm trying out different tools, workflows, etc. Haven't come to an ideal setup yet.