so why bring it up as a usecase for folding phones, the point is getting that screen space on the go.

You didn’t make that point in your original comment, hence my initial reply.

It’s okay, there are a million other sites like this one.

The problem is using such a very specific usecase (someone who uses a tablet to watch things, ONLY at home, prefers to not use a TV, prefers to not use a desktop computer connected to a monitor and does NOT have a laptop, or chooses to not use the size of said laptop) is a very very super specfic usecase.

That’s not a niche use case. Tablets have been the primary media consumption device at home away from the TV for many years. That is literally what they have been marketed as for over a decade now. Very few people sit in bed and watch TV shows on their laptop, or go to a desktop computer to do the same. You are living in a bubble if you think this is normal behaviour for the majority of people.

The folding phone solves the problem

It doesn’t solve any problem with at-home media consumption because there is no problem. Most people already own a tablet or, as you just argued, a laptop. Even if they don’t, there is a massive secondhand market for tablets now. Why would you ever need to go out and spend thousands on a fragile folding device to fulfil this role? It sounds like you have massively fallen for the marketing here.

Is this a joke question? Tablets have always been used at home. Do you have a TV in every single room of your house?

No, the phone will be running Google Play Services at all times in the background.

How can you type all this up without even reading the very first sentence of my comment?

But only if that viewing comes while you’re away from home. There is no reason to buy an expensive and fragile folding phone for video playback when you could buy almost any other phone and a secondhand tablet for less. Plus the tablet will have a bigger screen without a crease.

His intent or whether he is a real “hero” is not relevant to his conditions of imprisonment or his status as a whistleblower. The information he disclosed was clearly in the public interest and the ABC certainly seemed to agree when it used the information to publish a seven-part series. Isn’t it funny how the tune changed under threat of prosecution?

No he didn’t, this is misinformation. Henry from Techlore explained that he was switching back to stock Android, mainly to take advantage of the Google Advanced Protection Program. The description of the video literally reads:

As stressed in the video: This is part of my own personal journey and isn’t necessarily a recommendation for all of you.

In the final section of the video he very clearly explains that this is his personal choice and that he is NOT recommending people copy him. He said this is an objectively bad decision for some threat models and that he was only doing it to get ahead of the curve when it came to potential security issues in the future.

That’s how mass feature requests work. The company determines a set of possible new features, then ask their customers to vote on them. No one is going to sift through a million different unfeasible requests written by people who have absolutely no clue about development or the business structure. You are utterly delusional if you think that’s how this normally works.