Does anyone think the US would defend Taiwan at this point?

I think that ship has sailed under the current administration.

Page loaded, I read the story for a bit then the entire page went black with "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."

2025 when websites implement their own blue screens of death.

Yes, but we can't do anything about it can we?

I imagine it's because people are worth far more to advertisers than they themselves are willing to pay to browse. That and once you've given something away for free, for so long, it's very hard to then charge for it.

Based on previous conversations on this topic, I think the issue is that people don't actually prioritise the mini size above all else.

In other words whatever size the audience is for a mini phone they are further fragmented into people who want a flagship phone vs mid range phone vs budget phone.

And those market segments are too small to make it worth Apple or even most android manufacturers effort.