Chinese tea has a big problem. Yes there are other tea sources around the world, but you know - climate, soil, production methods, cultivars, and produced quantity.
If you drink Chinese tea there's no way around the tariff.

And even where the addon tried to support mobile the experience tends to be meh. Ever tried with ublock Origin on Android to unblock just a single component website?
What I mean is, I'm on www.one.com which loads a ton of other stuff including www.two.com; I want to unblock only two.com but keep ublock active on everything else. Good luck.

Of course the same applied to incandescent bulbs.
There were the Osram and Bosch and several other high quality brands (and lines, not all of a brand were the same): high cost, higher duration and more resilience to power surges and brownouts.
And there were the Ikea and much cheaper ones which... didn't have those.
Your brands may vary for wherever you were.

Get a better epub reader and decently formatted epubs won't be a problem. With my reader a single click on the footnote number shows it in a popup. The next click jumps to the footnote at the end of page or chapter. Back or click on the footnote number at the end of page brings you back to the footnote place.
No need for fancy special file formats, if calibre can convert then the kobo software could do the same on the fly. That's just vendor lock-in.

Also, medieval (and later) good stonemasons could achieve VERY high quality considering the tools the used.
See Duomo di Milano (Milan, Italy), Kölner Dom (Cologne, Germany), Notre Dame (Paris, yes it broke down some time ago but the design expected it to break down after fire to the roof) and... countless other examples starting with the Roman Empire and ending 19 century.

And that's not even taking into account other disaster reasons.
Just by skimming over the list I recognized a handful where I know the design was apt and held.
However the underground didn't hold, or there was an earthquake (in an area where none where expected, ever), or there was a fire (maybe even in wartime so maybe other stuff was going on).
Also, what maybe was missed by the poster of the "all the cathedrals and bridges that collapsed" link: the article was especially about a design that oh wonder, seems good even with the knowledge of today.

So it can run statistical analysis on your emails, yes even those you didn't type on the phone or the received ones, and use that data for better auto-correction and suggestions.
Really the same reason why it wants access to your contacts: suggest weird and unusual first names, surnames, foreign names, everything you wouldn't want to write wrong.
It really does make sense in a no-paranoia everybody-is-friends world.
Reality can be or not be the same, your choice.

For all the folks dissing on the Power model - you are forgetting not everyone is like us.
There are quite some folks who:
- don't need that much cpu power/memory
- don't have a 10/10 eyesight, do want a bigger display, don't have problems keeping the bigger phone in the pants (think at home, think shoulder bags, pouch and so on)
- don't need high resolution (think calls, whatsapp, facebook and maybe basic instagram usage); remember the previous point, maybe even on the bigger screen they can't see the difference between 720p 1080p 2k 4k screens at that size and distance....
- have problems charging (or remembering to charge) the device midday. Just charge at night while you sleep, forget about the battery, yeas even when the device will be a couple of years old you could still get a whole day of battery life...
- don't care for differences in design and quality like notches, multiple cameras and so on

Think some older folks. Think not-geeks. Devices like that can be quite appealing.

"going postal" is about to become "going amazon" ?

I think you meant this Soppressata or this Sopressa.
Small correction, since I was actually wondering what you meant (and I've been living in Italy for >30 years...).

There are lots of interesting comments here.
However let us just for a moment restrict to ourselves. IT and other technical/STEM/whatever ladies and guys.

These days I expect anybody I hire in this sector to have at least a basic understanding of all the "everything on internet is public" stuff.
These days I expect anybody I hire in this sector to have at least a basic understanding of restrict access to your facebook (and similar) profile to friends if you don't consider those public including yang Tsu in China, Markus Hinterhuber in Germany and your next employer.
These days I expect anybody I hire in this sector to have at least a basic understanding of Linkedin is business, not personal. This means a profile picture appropriate for the kind of job you are looking for (bad vacation pic in swimming trunks is unexpected on a high level CV), a reasonable amount of spell and grammar checking and so on (as I said, calibrated to the kind of job).

If these don't match it doesn't mean I won't hire them, but it is an alarm sign compounding other impressions. AGAIN: CALIBRATED TO THE KIND OF JOB, now don't come and crucify me.

Google is your friend (sometimes), look for this:

so you need a typeface

That infographic helps a lot for a starter.

Of course simple figures like this thrown around in media and statistics are a grossly oversimplified representation of reality, in other words bullshit.

Take that 75k Euro and "base level" happiness. Now add a small kid or three and a dog. Add a house big enough for the family living comfortably. With a garden. Maybe not in the city center but in a suburb. This means higher cost of transportation - now you probably will need at least one big car and another smaller one unless you are so lucky to be able to work from home. Also this needs a lot of time so in order to keep that happiness level maybe you or your spouse will choose to or feel obliged to stop going to work and concentrate on the family - or you need a good high level daycare center/person (not cheap). If you choose the full-time in-house support person remember she'll need a nice room, too (how big was that house again?). Of course many offload that expense on the time of the grandparents.

Problem is, (at least most south Europe) governments tends to make financial laws based on "every private person making over Xk is rich and will get overtaxed" too, while not looking enough at context and expenses. Then they continue wondering why birth rates are in the cellar and still dropping.

Oh I terribly recognize myself in this comment. Even if I carefully avoided Sucker Punch (substitute with the Aronofsky wonderful oldy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)).
Being a father with (multiple) small kids really changes your schedule and priorities.

Go and read it. It is not just any guy but an established character (from other books) with a kind of mind and acting quite different from conventional "fantasy" style characters - which the Discworld books quite definitively are not.
They end up talking and complaining and thinking we are on opposite sides but of the same position, while other people have other positions we don't like a bit from a get-off-my-lawn POV, and it does not just end but is quite coherent.
If you know and like how the main characters thinks you will not be disappointed. If you never read those... well that depends on your taste of humor and intellect.