@Sandra @PraiseTheSoup @rant An excellent point - although most of the security bugs seem to be in the bits which have been added to 'add value' and which I try to avoid.
@PraiseTheSoup @Sandra They are (should be) just tools to do a job. Having said that I went to the Edinburgh Festival with some of my family this year, and noticed that they could, for example, book tickets for a show much faster than I could on my nearly seven year old phone. When not seeing it in comparison with others, though, I do not usually think of mine as slow.
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