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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It seems crazy when a list of the 12 best “small” phones have an average screen size above 6 inches.

    Phone Screen Size (in)
    Galaxy S24 6.2
    Xiaomi 14 6.36
    Google Pixel 8 6.2
    Google Pixel 7a 6.1
    Asus Zenfone 10 5.9
    Motorola Edge 30 Neo 6.28
    Apple iPhone 13 mini 5.4
    Apple iPhone 15 6.1
    Apple iPhone SE 3 4.7
    Sony Xperia 5 V 6.1
    Motorola Moto Razr 40 Ultra 6.9
    Oppo Find N2 Flip 6.8
    Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 6.7
    Average 6.13

    The iPhone 13 mini has also been discontinued, and the reviewer discourages the iPhone SE 3, describing it the “smartphone equivalent of herpes”. So that removes 2 of the smallest of the “small” phones which makes the situation even worse.





  • The difficulties in monetisation is what had been slowly killing RSS support on websites. There have been services that have tried to solve this problem, one is mentioned in the article, but they don’t seem to have had wide adoption.

    It’s not just inserting ads either, today it’s also the pervasive tracking that makes money.

    RSS was great for things like personal blogs, but commercial sites came to see little value in it, and have been dropping it as a result.


  • Google+ could have been successful to a degree, in terms of features it was an improvement over Facebook in several ways. The problem was the invite only launch.

    The invite period worked for Gmail because it was still interoperable with other email services, and made getting a Gmail address seem exclusive and desirable. Making a walled garden social network invite only, however, just lead to it being empty. Most who did sign up looked around for a few minutes then went back to Facebook.