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By flipping the structure of the optics by 90 degrees, you can increase the focal length by expanding the structure from, say, the top towards the bottom of the phone, or from side to side, instead of from the front to the back, so you don’t need to increase the phone’s thickness to increase its focal length. 

I’m currently lying on the couch reading AI, and no phone or laptop would be nearly as practical for this. For any kind of media/content consumption, nothing beats it for convenience and flexibility, although there are obviously specific cases where other devices have an edge, and if you spend all of your time out on the town or typing, you may not use one as much. When I got my first iPad, I expected to only use it occasionally, but I ended up using it for hours every day, much more than my phone or my computer.

Apple should take a page from Genius Musk’s book and threaten to “thermonuclear name and shame” customers who switch from iPhone to Android. It’s a great way to keep your customers happy and loyal.

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To me the point here is that it’s a lot of money for a lock that provides a relatively low level of security. To be this easily picked, it probably doesn’t have a lot of pretty standard security features that you can find even on some very reasonably priced locks, such as spool or mushroom pins that require more skill to open than just a quick rake job. And I guess if they didn’t bother with that, it probably also doesn’t have any hardened steel shielding that would make it tougher to drill out. And for a fraction of this price, you can get something like a Medeco which is extremely difficult to pick. 

Verification is good for users, but It’s also better for Twitter as a whole. A better move would have been to require verification for all users, at no cost. If he doesn’t want to Twitter to be a “free-for-all hellscape,” forcing users to de-verify en masse is not the way to go. And it sounds like he’s lost touch with the value of $20, which is still significant to most people.