Is there any country where this works? AFAIK the safest countries have consistent but not draconical enforcement. The US has pretty harsh enforcement for a western country but it's very inconsistent and not timely enforced.

I know you are being facetious but the community Jurerê Internacional in Florianópolis has done exactly that to great success: https://youtu.be/dA_UYNGvDxc

The issue in the US is that punishment is comparatively harsh but relatively few criminals are punished and punishment is usually quite delayed. Studies show that timely, consistent punishment is much more effective.

I always thought the same logic should be applied to corruption by any kind of official. No matter if politician, judge or police officer - their crimes should be punished 10- or even 100-fold because the real damaged is undermining the entire system.

The system being protected in nations today is the pay-for-play,

not “do the right thing for society”.

I didn't get the zoom bug but zooming in to look at it and zooming out to get back to the buttons to practically the entire 10s

You can set privacy requirements and define an allow list. To me the main value prop is that I get one bill for all models and can quickly try new models without signing up anywhere or changing my code. Oh! Also you can pass an array of models and if the first provider is down it automatically falls through to the next provider. More useful than it should be...

That's still ultimately privacy by contract (where you have to trust the inference providers to uphold their end of the deal), rather than privacy by design.

I used to have my phone on a strap around my arm. Even that stopped working

I run with phone clenched in hand.

Are people serious about endurance sport actually a big market?

Funny this was downvoted: I was thinking the same as I was reading this thread.

True mass market means optimizing your product for the fat part of the population bell curve. This is some point or region in a space of { cost, features, use cases, durability }. The Apple Watch works for everyone from a stay at home parent, stocker at the supermarket, executive, and so on. If you work in a machine shop or spend a few hours every day working out it may not be for you.

There’s a marginal but valuable exception: think of prosumer cameras. There are indeed pros, and the feature set is good enough for some of them to shoot with a prosumer camera (any actual pro can shoot better photos with an instamatic than I can with a phone, much less an SLR). But most people buy the high end aspirationally. Why not? That penumbra pulls more people in who really need the plain old features.

And anyway once you really are at the high end your needs can be idiosyncratic.

Best are websites that in order to be "mobile friendly" make it impossible to pinch-zoom images

Well, I'm with you and I was very excited when the iPhone Mini came out. However, the capabilities weren't equivalent to the regular-sized Pro (probably due to space reasons). So I didn't buy one despite loving the size and now cannot complain that it was discontinued.

I did buy one and I am still using it. It can do all the things I need a phone to do. Honestly if anything it’s still a bit too big.

I don’t know what I’ll do when this phone becomes obsolete. Get surgery for bigger hands?

It seems mad to me that it wasn’t more popular. Though a lot of things that are popular seem mad to me too.

> Honestly if anything it’s still a bit too big.

Stumbled on my old iPhone 5S in the back of a drawer recently and could not believe how good it felt in my hand, even having only used 12 and 13 Mini models since 2021. What an excellent form factor and construction. Would happily pay a big premium for a modern version of it. Dreaming of a sub-mini phone trend. Sell me a $1500 Zoolander phone—not even joking!

The older phones didn’t have the screen extending all the way to the edges, but the size was ideal. And yes, Zoolander promised a future that never came!