Where most developers inevitably fail is trying to please all users. All it ends up in is a bloated mess. It is very difficult to keep a project simple and only within your own vision for it. If you aren't in it for money don't worry about alienating users that your project was never intended to please.

That's back when the internet required skill to set up a connection. And putting something up wasn't immediately facing security break in attempts from around the world (port scans so maybe a bit), someone wasn't immediately copying the site to put up their own with advertisements, someone else wasn't suing you for thinking you infringed their idea, trolls weren't constantly trying to deface it (ok maybe they were), bots weren't posting crap to anyone with a forum or bug tracker, and AI wasn't slashdotting your site trying to leach your material. Did I miss anything?

Instead people will want to be a walking camera in addition to probably needing to interface it to an over sized phone that already doesn't fit in your pocket.

Called it.

But the summary assures us that 20 meters is a high rise. That's like 6 whole stories.

Do people really have this much trouble reading a web page? The price, end of auction, location of item, and shipping details are all right there to be read. And the search works. Shopping isn't hard.

Too much money to be made, so killing them off ain't gonna happen.

I never saw how the SAT could actually be a test of ability when there were so many entrenched courses to teach exactly what is on it. I didn't care and never prepped and was still in the 90 something percentile - just imagine how much worse everyone else would have been if they hadn't prepped - and I would say more than 3/4 of my class took the SAT prep course.

Standardized testing doesn't work towards the common good, plus that test is all the schools will now teach because if it isn't on the test the school board doesn't care as it won't help the school's rating.

Back then there were no overload protections. We have those now. grounding is now a requirement for a reason. The batteries most likely exploded from surge current from the ungrounded lines. This isn't the 1800's. We even have fuses now. For the most part it is hyperbole today.

I am sure it had nothing to do with the spoon you left in the bowl.

A $100 phone is no longer a 'dumb phone', do some actual price shopping before jumping to conclusions. They might have a smaller screen that actually fits in a pocket, and won't play the latest whiz bang fad game. But for basic life they are perfectly functional.

For $150 6 years ago my unlocked phone has a glass back, oled screen that works in sunlight, and still works after one battery replacement (it swelled up pushing the screen off at 3 years). Good deals are out there without subsidizing the phone company at $100 per month.

Such is the modern person's ability to do long term personal finance inspection. Or more aptly, their inability. There is no such thing as a free phone 'on us.' People keep falling for it.

With the phone plans that include a phone you basically pay for that phone forever through the increased monthly fee. In the end it is not cheaper.

Most of the complainers about locked phones are those that buy the plan, get the phone, keep the plan for the minimum, then want to keep the phone but dump the carrier and go to a bring-your-own-phone plan. They had no original good intentions to the company, why should the company do anything different?

I can go to the local BestBuy and pick one up, I am shocked they ever even managed to get a carrier to unlock any phone they provided.