Apple stuff is for people who want products designed for regular people. Other tech companies design products for people who are geeks. Many of the benefits listed of the Android platform are things the general public doesn't even care about to begin with. What the larger market wants is an easy to use powerful device. With Android you just get the powerful part.

No wonder Apple's mopping the floor with them.

In regards to your "got it already" comments, if you just do a straight feature for feature comparison of devices you may miss the point of the iPhone. Its not that the iPhone has more features than other phones, because for the most part it doesn't. Its that the UI is so much better that it makes whatever features it doesn't have, not that big of a deal. People would rather forego certain features for now for the simply amazing ability of being able to use whatever features the iPhone already does have. Not many phones are designed in such a way that its easy for non-geeks to figure out how to use.

Yeah because language isn't supposed to be clear and effective for communication or anything.

Yeah because just wearing a suit makes someone evil or something.

LOL. "Google these for more discussion"

I already know of those concepts. I don't accept them! Amazing isn't it? Just because a guy who didn't want to grow up after attending MIT starts a movement, it doesn't mean everyone else on earth has to follow along. Of course we're not even close to everyone else on Earth as MOST people on earth don't give a crap about "free as in speech" software.

You're delusional if you think Linux has a high rate of adoption. I'm not talking about servers or internet infrastructure. I'm talking about desktop Linux.

It would really be something if freedom of religion and speech was as important as being able to get products for free.

But its not.

The point I was trying to make is that something isn't a right just because someone declares it to be. We're talking about software. The founding fathers surely did not talk about software in their constitutions. Computers didn't even exist back then. The 'rights' in this context mainly apply to those who want the product of hours of hard programming work for free because paying for software is now 'evil'.

Well its only evil to those who expect something for nothing. For those who realize that hard work should be rewarded, they have no problem with paying for it. What is the deal with the low rate of Linux adoption anyway? It IS free afterall. Its almost as if the distros can't give it away.

There's another way to look at it. That code is there to prevent people from stealing the OS since its thats popular. Linux on the other hand has trouble gaining marketshare even though its free. Its almost as if you literally can't GIVE Linux away. You have to come up with a philosophical 'movement' to talk people into using it.

What if most people don't care about those 'rights'?

My god you're a moron. You went on for paragraph after paragraph about the battery life issue without realizing once that in a car one could use the car charger with their iPhone. This is ideal for someone who already HAS an iPhone 3G. It works fine on the road.