Anyone who works around oil rigs or oil refineries are subject to much higher risks than those who work at these nuclear plants. The only thing that can ruin a nuclear plant today is an earthquake. Once the leak is out the job is very risky but until that time there is 0 risk. Where as the guys who work at the refineries and rigs always wear gas detectors to monitor deadly gases such as H2S that can wipe out a lot of people, not to mention the constant risks of explosions due to outdated equipment. Heroes? Maybe when nuclear tech was underdeveloped, but today hardly.

Well, I wouldn't compare angry birds to Crysis 2, if he doesn't see this as being the reason for the value difference he is an idiot. I could hire a coder online to make the game angry birds out of my own pocket on some hire a coder website. However the big boys who are selling their games for over 99 cents have a production team and are very good at what they do.

Lets also not forget to take in to account the fact that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have had years of experience creating developer kits, and many of the seasoned game developers are already familiar with how their developer kits run. Google and Apple have not had the same experience handing out developer kits. At least not ones that have turned their products in to a success. I believe that the software quality is way behind what the hardware can do on todays phones.

There is something that a smart phone will never be able to do anytime soon, and that is do multi-player the correct way, people like to interact with each other and while some phone games offer multi-player it will be ages before they get it right with the software, hardware, and network.

Once the companies make it to the top and the founders step down, there's no reason to spend money on innovation. The ones left behind to run things are more than happy with their cushion jobs, as long as they just keep on collecting that money leadership isn't going to care. I would bet that there are many Microsoft employees who have a lot of great ideas for some new amazing tech, but the people running the show wouldn't even give them a chance to start up another project.

Here are the two products Microsoft has produced that the future will remember for a while, that is Windows and the X-Box. For apple it will always be their odd computer and laptop designs, and for of course the ipod and iphone, apple right now has the coolest brand out there. I mean look at the Ipad, I would say the reason most people purchase them is because of the brand name alone. The pad thing has been around for years before, and you can do a lot more with a netbook, but because it has some shiny apple glass and charges twice as much as a netbook the people with money buy it as a status thing. I bought one for my wife because it's what she wanted. Sony will always be known for their sound systems, televisions and of course their gaming systems.

Innovation gets us to the moon, however many people do not like change.