Interesting story. I have noticed that certain parameters are often ignored not because they're unimportant, but instead because they're hard to quantify.

Another story is how the first product made by Jobs and Wozniak at Apple was a hacked phone that could be used to make international calls for free. They called the Vatican and pretended to be Henry Kissinger wanting to speak to the pope - they noticed and promptly hung up before they reached him

This reminds me of a story I read once about how Bell Labs engineers wanted to find the ideal length of a landline telephone chord. They did this by secretly shortening the chord over time on test users' telephones and waited to see how short they could make the chord before they noticed. If the plugtest is hardware-hardware testing Bell Labs engineers were doing human-hardware testing.

I tried to find a source for the story but I couldn't find one. I think I read it in The Innovators by Walter Isaacson, but I can't remember it exactly - maybe I'm misremembering it.

The HN crowd is not representative of the entire market. Most people don't care about the operating system and only want something that 1) is simple to use 2) they already know 3) they happen to already have (most people keep their phones for many years)

Also, the largest phone market in the world is the developing countries market. Cheap phones are supreme right now

I agree. I just don't agree with misinformation not being protected as free speech. Surely having an INGSOC decide what is truthful enough to be shared is detrimental to free expression and thought. Heliocentrism was also misinformation at one point.

How exactly does a proxy spread misinfo? Also, the project isn't even functional yet and appears to have been blocked to avert piracy