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!

No, "letter" is the standard

Or "legal".

legal is a standard, but not the standard. letter is the standard

And for writing a letter, ed is the standard editor.

I saw a painting in a church in Peru of the last supper. On the painting they were consuming guinea pigs and chicha morada.

There also were countless statues and icons of Pachamama which is a kind of merge between mother Mary and a Andean earth goddess.

Arguably wet got Christmas trees the same way

From having worked in that space what feels another lifetime ago, I vaguely recall that you can just offload the registry work to a registry that would manage this together with a mountain of other TLDs.

Yes, that's what Verisign does here - they also host many of the other big generic TLDs like .com.

I died at age 36 of a workplace accident in the Yangtze delta in the year 700

The mafia needs money to change hands to launder it. What money is being laundered in software? Do you think anyone in the ecosystem is sitting on piles of dirty money?

Life is easier if you don't take any analogy, especially humorous ones, 100% literally.

I'm sure you can come up with scenarios where A wants clean money to go to B but still prefers a pretext.

In this case the now 12M (Brian Armstrong now also "donated") could be for AI and right-wing promotion for example.

I think a big difference is that Iceland, like Norway, has agreements in place that give it most of the real benefits of EU membership. The UK had to go the other route, lose all the benefits and hope they can get the good parts back.

The UK chose that approach, not the EU.