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I own one. Picked it up while trying various cradle types for testing physical devices (there’s roughly 10-12 on my desk at any given time).

Overall, I’d say the review is pretty spot-on. I’d add the following: touching the screen quickly (especially high up) on an iPhone or other tall phones can impart too much force and cause a lot of wobble or topple the device. You really have to spread the base as much as you can — it’s like any kind of trike, and is inherently unstable in certain ways.

I haven’t tried this yet, but I think that one of the charging cables with a 90° bend (either to the back or side) might solve the charging issue.

In general, I carry it with me as a light stand — it’s fantastic for regular calls on speaker, FaceTime calls, and to be able to see and use Music playlists, and generally prevents the “where did I set my phone down now” phenomenon. It’s also not bad for watching videos in landscape. I imagine it would be good for a paired game-controller.

9secondkox2 said:

Nothing wrong with Google helping to secure our national borders and security. It’s a good business move and a good patriotic move. 

I hate politics. But I hate misrepresentation of facts just as much. 

What people fail to realize is:

1. that Trump inherited the Obama/Biden program of separating children from families. Lumping it all on one admin is ignorant. 

2. that policy is actually not evil. It helps protect children from people who are not their parents actively exploiting them. A cnn interview with border patrol on this issue was quite eye opening. 

3. Illegal entering a country is a criminal act. When you go to jail, your family does not Join you. It would be horrible to put the children back on the other side of the border subject to weather, starvation, dehydration, and exploitation by adults. So they are housed, nourished, and protected until the wrongs can be righted. It’s a difficult thing. But far from “evil.”

That said, these guys have a right to express a dissenting opinion and peacefully protest. 

But if they were abusing their job responsibilities to do so, well, Google is not “evil” in firing them. They were “evil” in exploiting their employers Time and resources to accomplish their personal agenda. 

Sounds like an entitled/frivolous lawsuit if there was one. They can disagree with their employer. But they still have to fulfill their job description. Snd when you violate that, there are consequences. Hopefully they learn from this. 

Cool story bro. Super imaginative.

red oak said:

All of these millennial or Gen Z snowflakes are torpedoing their careers.  They are going to wake up 10 years from now wondering how the f* everything up so bad 

Cool story bro. 🤣

Just want to take a quick moment to remind everyone, particularly the “30% is robbery” folks, that you pay far greater markups every single day. I’m sure many of you are paying far more than 30% in the aggregate just on markups of materials from your contractor, electrician, or some other service provider. Or a utility company. Or just going to your local stores — where the percentage on markups can run to the thousands of the manufacturing costs. Where are the protests from manufacturers when Walmart marks a product up by hundreds of a percent? That money could be going to the creators, but instead goes to the distributers. Overwhelmingly so. (Or did you think HBO was a charity? Or say, when was the last time you refused to buy an exorbitantly priced drink with your meal?)

Additionally, each layer is taking it’s supposed ‘value-added’ cut. Personally, I think this is what this is all about — Apple cuts out so many middle-actors that are used to getting their pound of flesh, that they’re now trying to do this end run in order to assert what they see as their rightful places in the food chain. Basically, a revolt of the usual parasites.

You’ll notice that the industries that know how to pay off these characters, by giving powerful interests a cut of the action, aren’t being scrutinized. Even though they are enormously more anti-competitive and anti-consumer. So it’s not ethics at stake here — but the hierarchy of who profits and how.

Just a thought.

ps - please excuse the writing quality. Had to tap this out quickly.