I'm well aware of Palm PDAs. I'm saying they were dead in 2007. I said "RE-invent". Not "invent".

If tapping icons on a touchscreen is a natural progression from the desktop, why did Apple have to re-invent the touchscreen to make it happen? Before the iPhone first hit the market, touchscreens were a relic.

So that you'll buy new batteries from them!

Chrome is taking off pretty nicely.

Not a religion? Some might disagree.

More shockingly, I don't think he knows the definition of "most".

It's a sales-weighted average. They would have to sell a lot of 100mpg cars.

There's likely a clock on your operating system 100% of the time. Do you always know the time, or do you have to check?

Change gear? Bah, most Americans haven't seen a manual transmission. Honestly, I think they should be mandatory for new drivers over here. They force you to pay attention to what you're doing.

Gee, we haven't gotten hacked in a while... no need to encrypt all these PSN passwords.

Pretend, just for the sake of this discussion, that you lived in Germany. You take your children to a nice wholesome bookstore and start browsing the magazines. In plain sight, right next to all of the normal magazines, is a large array of porn. Stuff like that is standard fare in Germany, and other Euro countries. How would you handle that?

People in those countries simply emphasize that sex is not a big deal.

Remarkably well composed for a 12 year old.

What good will that do them? They'll combine both of their sub-standard mobile OS's and somehow take down Google and Apple?

Hell, this is coming from a guy with a Blackberry. I wish it could happen; I wish RIM would snap themselves out of the iPhone-induced stupor they seem to be in. Sadly, I don't think they can do it.

The people responsible for mismanagement are in charge of the situation. We'll be out of this in a jiffy...

What about the people who rip their music at 320kbps? iCloud will downgrade my music for $25 a year?