You don't want your data actually being seen by someone somewhere which is the case in many business applications I would think.

marketing machine. You don't really care about the privacy of your actions if you are doing such things. And Facebook never cared about privacy. If you enter your password incorrectly on the Android app (twice I think), it then puts it in plain text mode for password entry so you can see what you type.

I don't think it would, I have all the consoles and a Pc and just buy games for Pc now. Got the 360 first, kind of regret it now. It is loud, slow, the interface is terrible unless your using it all the time in which case your probably use to it and overall it is just a poor experience compared to Pc gaming. The much touted evolving System Requirements have pretty much stopped since the companies started supporting consoles so well and the only actual remaining issue is sometimes poor control scheme in some Pc games and just poor console ports sometimes.

This pays the bills for the free users, same as Facebook, you are the product on Playstation Home and so it has to succeed for Home to stay free and has to succeed for pay for the necessary improvements in security.

make the fucking website usable, I might be able to buy tickets. I've only tried to buy from it once and it was like getting kicked in the face a few times and I got about as much out of it.

Log in at 9 for tickets going on sale at 9, website fails to load, website eventually loads, tickets sold out. Its not even 5 past 9. Why not just use a bloody email sign up lottery system? Enter email, you can sign up and enter your friends emails to ensure you get seats together because the system can process it that way once all entered on same form. If your submission number gets picked in lottery then you all get the seats unless there is not enough seats left for your group in which case it picks a new number until it finds a match.

Why can't such a system just be put in place over the current everybody rush for the doors and see if you all fit through mechanism? Isn't this the sort of moronic real world problem that the Internet allows us to solve? Why replicate the real world problem onto the Internet?

Isn't the best selling tablet the iPad? Just an observation.

No Embedded 7 is now gone too: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-embedded-handheld-7-slips-off-the-microsoft-roadmap/9005

Windows 8 still runs older applications though. With Windows Phone 7, Ms dropped support for all the earlier Windows Mobile stuff, dropped support for SQL Mobile, didn't allow any Windows Mobile project to be migrative to Visual Studio 2010 forcing any house with projects for both to stick with 2008 or split across two versions of Visual Studio. Keep in mind, this was the same time as they introduced MVC 3 to Vistual Studio 2010 and were refusing to make a lot of the newer projects for 2008 and this was only explained at the release of Visual Studio 2010 and they refused to comment oh what the plans were for Windows Mobile projects and if they would ever be supported and refused to comment on whether Phone 7 would be getting an enterprise version that Windows Mobile houses could migrate to or give any information to anyone basically working in the rugged market where Windows Mobile was the platform of choice. It was a joke.

Cheers I checked it out, looks great, now my default browser search engine to try it out for a while.

I switched to bing for most of my searches because it usually gets me links I want and not some local copy of the original article. I think Google searches are too localised and too much centered around my search history among other things. I'm always logged in as I have mail account with them and logging out and in to that to perform searches is a pain and not only that but it still localises the search results to bias for my country. Sometimes I want an outside opinion about what is going on. Google just doesn't seem to be as good as bing for that. It is better at finding local services like government sites for my country but worse at most other things now. I recommend people try bing now. A lot better than it was when it launched. I tried switching to other mail services but Gmail is the best with Google Doc integration and Google tasks but I'm leaving the search engine behind me.

Using Zimbra as my IMAP client to gmail on LMDE. Check out ZDesktop to see if you can live with it as it is pretty much the same as the web interface. It was easy to setup.

My boss is hardcore Apple fan, has everything except a Mac or Macbook. Just thinks everything is on windows and is used to it so OSX isn't intuitive to him. iPhone was first touchscreen phone that was heavily marketed and had a good brand behind it. Nokia's were king of the previous generation because people got used to the keypad layout for things like full stops and didn't want to adapt to another manufacturers keypad who put those options in other places at least among the people I asked at the time. Xbox 360 took the console market by providing the next generation console ahead of everyone else but Wii took the motion market despite the other manufacturers adding their own to their consoles, they have not taken off in same way.

All the above have one thing in common, first to market and many got a largely non-technical audience who don't seem to want to adapt to new interfaces once they get comfortable with one. Time to market and heavy marketing to ensure brand recognition and show that the manufacturer heavily believes in the product and is there to support it is what makes users buy into these products in my opinion. Well that and most of the above were also shiny :P