Does the intro feel weird to anybody else? The segue from talking about the current tragedy in France to talking about a company's product line choices feels like an attempt to capitalize on the current fervor, and it feels weak.

I think "weak" is far too kind. Inappropriate at best, disgraceful at worst.

I found it insulting, frankly. Its as though the author is suggesting some sort of connection between the events and their business decision, or that the business decision is some sort of substantive attempt to fight injustice.

On the upside, at least syncthing is now free from the heavy-handed overzealous marketing these guys seem to love so much.

Depends on how you see it.

Looks like author is deeply affected by what happened there recently, which must have distracted a lot. That he links with focus.

So, in a way - I find it okey, very unusual though.

I looked all over the website and I still have no idea what ind.ie is or makes. They develop a product called "Heartbeat"? That lets you share things with people? Am I the only one completely baffled by this website?

TL;DR: Focusing on Mac development because we need to focus with a tool we trust, even though we know that is limited thinking it will help us focus.

Their open source cloud software seems genuinely cool. The social media/browser thing I'm not sure I get, but could be cool. But the leap to designing, building and shipping a working phone seems several orders of magnitude harder to pull off. I just don't see how it's realistic within 24 months.

Syncthing? That was not developed by ind.ie.

I'm aware. I think that only further proves my point.

I think what those guys are trying to do is interesting, but telling us they are trimming down their plans to an iOS app has got zero to do with terrorists shooting people!

Here is what I presume is the correct article link:

https://ind.ie/blog/focus/

Thanks, my bad. Hopefully the mods can update this to the correct URL.