AggressivelyPassive

Credits. Gaffers are extremely important and I refuse to watch anything gaffed by Jeff. You know, what you did, Jeff!

You can probably have much larger profit margins on that $500+ phone

Cool, then go ahead and sell the 500$ phone to a nigerian farmer.

Getting a foot into the high end market is almost impossible, the barrier to (successful) entry is gigantic. Tackling the underserved low-end market is a much more viable strategy. And now comes the kicker: Not being able to enter a market is (and this will shock you) even less profitable than entering a low-margin market.

I really don’t intend that as an insult, but you’re looking at this from a very western, rich, profit-oriented standpoint. Mozilla never was about profit and the world is larger than our western rich kid bubble. 500$ is enough to feed a person for an entire year (or more) in some countries.

No. You’re way too euro/us-centric. There’s a huge market for low end phones in Africa, South America and large parts of Asia.

If the FFOS team would have managed to get, say, a Nigerian carrier on board and produce a viable smartphone at 40$ or so, that would have absolutely dominated the market there, especially in the early days of smartphones.

The needs of the poorer 4 billion of this planet are not met by 500+$ phones that break every six months and have a battery life of about 5 minutes.

They tried to focus on lower end devices and that’s not inherently stupid. If you only need half the ram and CPU of a low end Android phone, you can undercut Android’s marketshare - in theory at least.

I’m German and even for me it’s hard to read.

This is the slightly more “modern” Version, though.

If you really want to doubt your reading ability, google “Sütterlin”, pure chaos.

I mean, is cannibalism really the worst problem here?

Pigs are omnivores and if the alternative is to throw unused pork/pig parts away, feeding them to new pigs is at least not a waste.

Depriving the animals of everything they need and genetically engineering them to suffer is far worse in my opinion.

When I look outside, there are 5 year olds playing without supervision. They get along just fine.

Not every country is a paranoid dystopia.

There’s a difference between semi-medical amphetamines, like Pervitin, and just smoking meth. Ritalin/Adderall are amphetamines too and people seem to work just fine on them.

And the proper way is to teach your kids about it and stop treating kids like super fragile glass beings.

Your city probably has some dark corners too, but you don’t set up geofenced tracking beacons to be alarmed if they stumble slightly off the path you intended them to go.

Children should feel comfortable enough to talk to you about bad stuff they encounter, not feel frightened, that they broke a rule.

You’re the kid that bragged your dad could easily beat up the other pre-schooler’s dad.

The ads finance the app, I think that’s perfectly fine (in principle).

I asked the dev a few weeks ago, this app is literally his livelihood. And he has a pretty good track record of delivering good software. Why not support him?