Disappointed on the lacklustre effort with the Fold 5.

I think Samsung has the form factor wrong here. For everyone that doesn’t want a stylus, people are going to prefer the shorter/wider versions. It’s enough of a deterrent for me that I’ll probably go S23 Ultra instead.

I appreciate their straight up honest approach to it.

However I do feel bad for them because it’s impossible to imagine them keeping up. They may well carve out a niche in the boutique open source geek linux space, and they may be happy with that - but any chance that they’ll capture a meaningful share of more general professional users would seem to negligible now.

Clearly there has been a huge issue with massive numbers of kids using multiplayer apps and causing all kinds of issues. I’ve wondered for ages why Meta doesn’t address it and am starting to think perhaps they are in a legal catch-22: acting to restrict what kids do would acknowledge there are significant numbers doing it, which would in turn get them into legal trouble. So before they can meaningfully act to restrict children they have to first create the legal path for them to use the system.

At least I hope this is what’s happening and it will mean in turn that we won’t have so many squeakers shouting racist taunts in multiplayer apps any more.