Or they have figured out what is best for the customer, and it is what everyone else is providing.

Personally I hope the 6C is closer to the size of the iPhone 4/5, as what is good is options. I love my big PDA (don't give a shit about phones and phablets), but I can see good reasons for others to want a smaller device.

> $600.99

Assuming a $25 contract I guess?

$600.99 or $600.99 - the cost of 2 years worth of credit - two years worth of phone usage?

Now this number will be maybe $450. Some "throwing numbers about" puts two years of credit at $85. So that is $515.99 for the phone + mobile contract. Take away the phone ($450.99) and you have a mobile contract at $32.50 a year or under $3 a month.

I'm not sure I see that as all that bad.

Yes. Or some form of two phase auth. Email followed by SMS for example.

> And WTF does this have to do with overtime?

Many people foolishly think that as they can check their work email while on holiday, they should check their work email while on holiday. By doing so they are doing unpaid overtime (an evil evil thing).

> Most adults who play FPS tend to play offline (i.e. Bioshock).

I disagree, most adults who play FPSes online don't talk.

They do trains so I don't see why not, it is much more moral than the prices they charge on trains.

I come from the same camp, hire the best person for the role. Definitely.

But best is not just "technically best" but also "team fit best" and "not a dick" and "can communicate with the team" and various other little things. What this can mean is that the team unconsciously equates "best team fit" as "same as the rest of the team". The management should step in if this happens and look at ways to fixing what is a problem and reports like the one performed by Mr Apple is one quick way to measure if this is happening.

> Have you paused to consider that there might be other lifestyles than your own?

Yeap. And I want a smart watch. Or Glasses (minus the camera maybe), I've not worn a watch since the late 80s when it came with a radio built in.

As long as they don't stop selling watches when they start selling smart watches we will both be groovy. I'll have both a smart watch and you will have a watch. CauseBy may have an even smarter watch then I.

Wow so they fucked the TV show up then as I don't remember the helicopters in A Song of Ice and Fire.

By running the screensaver on The Cloud we can save each home device from having to process the images.

I pay a flat rate for water as well. :/

Run it in a browser without having to compile it into Javascript.

You could o/c not do any front end interaction have a set of static pages (yeay the 90s) or use Flash (Wooo 2000!).

Find yourself a good REST writing API (I'd go Jersey & Guice, but many go Spring for Java) and then HTML AngularJS as your front end framework.

> virtual machine

VM or emulator?

How about an emulator running on the JavaScript Virtual Machine? You can do that. ;)

And Google Chrome. ;)

But Phonegap/Cordova are part of the the "proprietary app stores" ecosystem which "will come and eat us all."