>Couldn’t they ditch the notch by having the speaker on the edge of the device? I have no problem hearing the speaker with my phone pulled away from my ear.

That triggered my PTSD from watching the Nokia N-Gage ads. That was cringey.

The N-Gage was my first 'smart' phone. Back then, just like now, I did not use phones so much to call people so the 'taco to your ear' pose did not bother me. I'm no gamer either, I just got the N-Gage because it was the cheapest freely programmable phone at the time. It also had good sound and doubled as a media player. In reality it was quite a usable device, all that was really missing was WiFi.

I sold my razer to get the N-Gage and I loved it. I am a gamer and loved the games available to it.

They gave up on mobile years ago. Both hw and sw.

We were talking about Windows Phone, not Outlook for iOS or stuff like that.

Which makes it interesting for them to have an OS that won't lock particular software out in a play akin to what MS is trying to to to Valve by using their monopoly, a dogmatic Richard Stallman approach to this would ironically save them from that.

Judging by the name I thought this was a 4chan board.

At least it's not /r/os

The Internet for people who don't know about ad blockers must be a horrible place, it's no wonder everybody started using apps for everything.

Aren't apps also crippled by ads?

Yes. Apps are a step backwards because they are in a much less user-controlled space. App adoption is more correlated with mobile platform adoption as opposed to demand for ad blocking.

Not nearly as much as mobile web.

Some have ads, but they are definitely not crippled by ads and malware.

Not that horrible. I don't use an adblock at work, even if what I'm browsing is limited to the register and HN with the linked pages and it's usable.

I believe most Europeans don't know much or anything about the EU, because our states retain a lot of power, so we already have enough to deal with.

That depends what you mean with free speech. "I want to say anything I want, and no one can punish me for it" only makes sense if you believe your words have no consequences.