Indeed. Sounds like the original question asker is ideology driven, not reality driven.

Are the privacy invasions *actually* hurting their quality of life? I seriously doubt it. They're letting ideology override their actual life experience.

Foolish.

I'd say both. Just because it's inspired browser features, doesn't mean that Flash has ever been The Right Way.

I would.

Flash has been a place keeper / workaround for missing browser features for years now. Once browsers can do everything properly themselves, we'll no longer need Flash, and we'll be better for it.

That's not the point though. Yes, there's workarounds we can do as developers. But the browsers have all the relevant information already, and are the best and most sensible and logical candidates for presenting that information to the user.

The fact that we've been doing workarounds for so many years is, frankly, absurd.

IE has a progress bar (or at least, some versions have had).

All the other browsers (to my knowledge) do not.

And yes, shame on them. It's absurd. The browser knows how big the file is and how much it's sent. IT CAN PROVIDE A FUCKING PROGRESS BAR.

But no. Instead web devs have to write absolutely absurd hacks around this basic missing feature.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that I have never had problems with the right button on my Mighty Mouse.

I had problems with the side buttons (they were completely useless due to poor positioning), and with the scroll ball (gets dirty and stops working), but never the right button.

I do love the scroll ball though, when it works. Pure bliss.

Because it amuses me, toying with emotional failures like yourself.

There's so much misguided hate and passion going on, it's entertaining to watch. You're the flipside to the Apple fanboy, but so much darker and more disturbing.

See, the extremes of the Apple fanboys, while sad and pathetic, at least have some basis in reality. Apple really are making the cream of tech products at the moment.

But the anti-fanboy crowd, like yourself, you're a dark and disturbing thing. It's bitter contrarianism in the face of a reasonably undeniable reality, and at such a passionate level that hints at much darker personal issues beneath the surface. It's like watching a moving drama about family abuse or alcoholism or something.

Look, I'm not even reading your arguments. I stop reading each of your messages one or two sentences in.

I've seen you and your kind around for decades (as long as I've been in this industry). Hell, you're not even unique to this industry. You're a reasonably universal phenomenon.

Fascinating to study in psychology and sociology, but pointless to actually debate with. What's driving you is not rationality. Passion and negativity, for sure, but not rational.

If I were to engage your arguments I'd be missing the point. And if I were to try and help you out of your fugue I'd be giving you free medical service. Sorry buddy, I'm off the clock.

A nerve with fellow crying babies like yourself.

Pathetic.

So, let me get this straight ... the only way to either unlock your phone with regards to apps or network is to do something strictly against the Terms of Service, thus invalidating your warranty.

Nope. You're still wrong. Network unlocks are available from the networks themselves in most countries.

Oh, and maybe you brick the thing in the process.

Again wrong. The jailbreak and unlock processes are practically single click now, and there's next to no risk of bricking. And if you do somehow manage to brick it you can always do a restore through iTunes, even getting your stored data back in the process.

Personally I like to use devices I have paid for in the way I choose to, not the way Steve Jobs TELLS me to ... and *I'm* the prick ?

Yep, you're still the prick and you still have a bee in your bonnet. You're no more locked in with an iPhone than you are with any other phone. You've got issues son, and I suggest you go cry them out in private. Your whinging and wining in public is embarrassing.

Still enjoy your lock in. You deserve it.

Wow. You're a prick. And an ignorant one at that.

There's free ssh clients in the app store. I've got a couple. They work fine.

There's no concern about lock in either. All iPhones are unlockable, both for apps (jailbreaking the phone) and network.

Sounds to me like you've got a bee in your bonnet. Sad.

Case in point.