Pretty much same opinion here - once it works it's great, but once something breaks - oh the bullshit you have to muddle thru. Not speaking French adds another level of complexity. Thankfully the Free.fr employees on Aduf are very helpfull :)

Not much of them left, that's why.

I'm enjoying Free since i moved to France about 3 months ago, and i don't see any traffic shaping relating to Usenet or SSL, both which i use extensively. The only time i see the link go slower is when i turn on the Freebox HD, or pick up the phone, but that's to be expected.

If it wasn't for shitty outsourced customer support (i have to run to a forum where the *actual* employees post - ADUF, only then stuff gets fixed) and the shitstorm that is connecting lines with France Telecom, I'd say the package is great - nice hardware, native IPv6, pretty cheap. Tho i still prefer my Cable from UPC back in Poland.

With the exception of connectBot, all of those you listed do not in literal sense quit the app, or close it. You can just as well press the home button, with the exact same effect - the application in question will be kept in memory, and the process will not be destroyed, unless Android deems it necessary.

  What IS true however, is that you cannot sign-off, thus Skype marks itself active, and Android will not attempt to close it (and free it's resources) like it should. But I've corrected myself about that.

This is how all of android apps work, by design.

Except, what developer would willingly agree to hand over his product to this kind of a store?
Is having an app that's featured in a walled garden store where other people have control over your app a desirable thing nowadays?

In other words : are there programmers who would like to take in the ass from amazon?

This is more or less how the new game consoles (X360 and PS3) work.

4) all of the above

No they haven't. The PPC-making subdivision splitted off for some time now, under the name of Freescale

Ah, but O'Brien got promoted to engineer at DS9, and he scored a pretty hot asian!

Waaaay back when i had an amiga, installing Win98 on my PC borked **both** machines. Had to sell the amiga, and do a clean install on the PC.

Just sayin'

Just tried running it. It requires the partition be case-insensitive! What is this valve? 2004?

While i agree with most of what you said, there's one thing that i think you should know about the multitasking bit.

The way that apple described it's multitasking capabilities in iPhone OS 4.0, seem to be identical in how android handles multitasking - eg your app can have a background worker, that does stuff in the background (media player, IMs, background task for periodically checking stuff), and then the user-visible multitasking of switching apps, where the app that was used gets its state saved, then the process gets killed. If that app is then resumed the code handles the reading of the state.

This behaviour has been there since Android 1.0 (@override onPause() and @override onResume())

Umm, no they're not. Only the dash (huge green X) is lit up, or rather flashes on certain occasions.

> This is in stark contrast to a Mac where you will first download your app and then be told to manually sort out dependencies.

See that's the thing. We don't have dependencies. No need to run after libfoo to run appbar. Just open the DMG, drag and drop to wherever (/Applications is nice) and run.