If get rid of the tiles is not an option I'll pass.

I just thought they were really desperate to get everybody on the tilke-OS crap in the hope that desktop users would care for crappy "apps" on a big screen.

Sounds like he should side with Scientology on this one. Their e-meter is a primmitive polygraph after all.

Hey, you know, "befehl ist befehl". That worked so well at the Neurenberg trials after WW2 so why not now?

Indeed. We need MUCH MORE melding. Antarctica should return to the lush forrested state it had in the mid cretaceous.

I didn't know this would actually work. Now /. has given me the idea I'll try it out and see if someone is really stupid enough to buy an ebook instead of downloading it from usenet / bittorrent / mobilism / ...

"It means a lot that the Earth is warming and that human activity is the cause."

So what? Better warming than a new ice age.

Only if you consider yourself a Borg. In which case, there is no "you" but only "we".

Some old phones that lie dorment in a drawer, an external GPS receiver from the time my phone could run navigation software but had no built-in GPS chip.

"It does not take a few years to cause noticeable change in Global Warming. It takes centuries. Maybe your great-great-great-grandkids will intent a timemachine and shoot you for your own stupidity,"

Those idiots, if they just would have continued pumping up the CO2 levels we wouldn't have this ice age now.

I have the option to switch to Lolipop for my phone, but unless its numerous bugs and annoyances are solved AND Xposed runs reliably on it I won't switch.

And since almost all Android apps run on versions >= 4.0 there is not really a problem there either. With iOS running not the last version gives serious problems on this area.

"If you also have to emulate the CPU, things get really, really slow."

Depends. My C-64 emulator runs faster than the original in 1983. :-)

Sometimes they can be nice. I run a TI-89 emulator on my Android phone. Much more practical than buying a bulky calculator.

" by providing Windows 10 free (if you upgrade in first year) they will be the largest single OS provider in the world"

Assuming people even WANT to "up"grade. From whiceat I've seen from windows 10 I will stick with 7 for now. As a non-company I don't care about price anyway, I'll just pirate a version I like. When people not even want to pirate their software MS has a problem.

The far more software that is being developed are desktop applications. Noone cares about windows phone apps, and being able to run them on the desktop doesn't change that.