I left it out intentionally as while I personally think it's in the same category, it's unfortunately sufficiently normalized as to pass without question.
There are medical reasons for the removal of foreskins such as phimosis [1]. Inasmuch as I would agree that religious justifications for circumcision are the ramblings of a cargo cult, circumcision itself was and is (for now at least) not without value.
There also could be medical reasons for the removal of arms. That doesn't mean parents should be allowed to remove the arms of their children as they are born.
If there's a medical reason to amputate an arm and if it would be appropriate to attend to it immediately after birth so that no long-term complications arise from a delay in action, a parent should acquiesce to it. If parents shouldn't make that decision then who should?
Not to mention politics. Yes security guys on Twitter, we get it, you're all very progressive. Can you talk about bloody computer security for a change?
Samsung has the greatest marketshare in the the Android ecosystem[0][1] and they've pledged to provide security updates for 4 years for >130 models[2] – which is pretty good!
Their 4 year support from phones initial release is still quite bad and the last year is apparently only quarterly not monthly updates. So buy a phone X months after release and you get 36 - X months of monthly security patches and then minimal support for 1 year.
That’s a big deal because their manufacturing last years model S20 and many people are buying not realizing it’s apparently got 1.5 years of full support remaining.
Apple does basically the same thing. You buy an older iPhone like the XR and you get years of support off. Hell they cutoff support for the 6th gen iPod Touch less than 6 months after they stopped selling it. They also make zero support promises for their products or monthly updates. While you might get 7 years like an iPhone 6S, it could also be 3 or even 2 like the original iPad. It's completely at their whims. For a while Mac support seemed relatively stable but Big Sur dropped a ton of models.
Samsung's support pledge isn't perfect but it is an improvement that will hopefully lead to other Android OEMs stepping up their game.
The 6s still gets support, and even though it gets iOS 15 iOS 14 will continue to get security updates for people who stay on it. Hard to believe that the XR is going to get dropped within the next 5 years.
Group chats where everybody uses iPhone work through iMessage. If only one person switches to Android they get downgraded to MMS (open standard) which is much worse.
Why these people don't use OTT apps like WhatsApp I'll never know.
