Drop protection is one of the main reasons, especially when you use batteries with soft shells.

It seems like most jobs will be cut in Germany, so employee representatives must be involved and there will be negotiations.

Typing this on a 2010 MBP, bought a new MBP this weekend (was later canceled by the seller b/c of inventory issues) and thinking about waiting another year

It's more credible on paper, but the common internet user is more likely to know and trust .org domains then any of the new TLDs.

Yes, and it is slightly amusing to think that an ordinary internet user is going to make a decision about whether to trust .org more than .ngo domains by checking Wikipedia. That's wikipedia dot org...

I think people tend to forget how often WhatsApp experienced outages in the early days.

This actually speaks volumes. Yes, people forget. Yes, it’s possible to suffer severe growing pains and still get acquired for $$$$. No, you don’t need to start with everything-AWS to ensure 99.9-whatever% uptime. People forget.