Using Tor (Tails) _and_ doing financial transactions with it! You are sure to be on the short list for a drone-strike...

Well, I am not sure about "minor". But a prime source of zero-days should be the Java-Script engine. Turn it off or use NoScript, and you may be still secure.

It is the most unethical thing they can do. On the plus-side, this may help Tails (and Tor) to get ahead of the game again, as this draws a lot of attention to the problem.

Commercial enterprises (such as Exodus) will do anything and everything that is or should be criminal, provided they can get away with it. Do not even look for minimal ethics there, it is a complete waste of time.

What is certainly there is at least several JavaScript zero-days. JavaScript is complex to implement and easy to get wrong. As this is a commercial effort (as can be seen by its immorality and focus on profit), they will go after low-hanging fruit. The JavaScript engine is the most promising one.

And who said it would not affect other users too?

If you don't think the statements are correct, then it's incumbent on you to say what you think is incorrect.

If you do think they're correct but you "don't see why you should comment on them", what on Earth are you doing in the comments section?

Israel's pre-1960 borders? The ones were the West Bank belonged to Jordan and Gaza belonged to Egypt?

If it brought a real chance at peace, I believe Israel would agree to that. But Jordan doesn't want the West Bank anymore. Egypt doesn't want Gaza. Israel's pre-1960 borders still would not create a country called Palestine.

Jordan and Egypt don't want to deal with the Palestinian problem anymore than Israel does.

What about the Stratosphere, which I wrote about previously? That didn't have a slide-out keyboard and so presumably wasn't serving a niche market. That was the one where the calendar app highlighted the wrong date as "today", because it (apparently) computed "today" based on GMT rather than the phone's current time zone.

If you're taking it as a given that the article statements were correct, my final statement was that we could improve existing phones by methodically testing them for idiotic problems (the Stupid Shit Index), so that consumers know how to find phones that have the least stupid shit wrong with them, the makers of those phones are rewarded, and the next iteration of phones has incrementally less stupid shit as a result. Since this is a big reward for relatively little effort, isn't it worth doing?

Take the auto-correct for example. The auto-correct application on the high-end phone presumably doesn't change "you're" to "you"re". So in what plausible scenario would they end up stripping down that high-end version to a low-end version that does?

If the high-end autocorrect occupies too much memory (too large a database of words, for example) for it to work correctly on the low-end phone, wouldn't it be easier to strip down the dictionary, rather than starting from scratch with a new dictionary that contains incorrect entries?

Indeed. Patreon does not remove the need for the author to produce something others want and consider valuable, before the author can support itself completely by writing. That is as it should be.

You have failed to understand how patreon works. Congratulations, this invalidates everything you say.

The UI bugs that I was talking about are in the kinds of features that you'd think they could just develop once, and re-use for both their low-end and high-end phones. e.g. they could have developed an auto-correct for the high-end phone that doesn't change you're to you"re, and then just re-used it on the low-end phone. Wouldn't it actually be more work to develop a separate buggier auto-correct for the cheap phone?

You're very articulate. Your English teacher would be proud.

Now, on behalf of your math teacher, do you actually have a point? i.e. is there a statement in the article you think is incorrect.