Nobody really uses OpenGL on consoles. They use lower-level APIs that are much better suited and faster. DirectX on the XBox is also very different from the desktop version.

Completely agree. I came to the same conclusion after thinking about it some more. There is one caveat tho, a very small amount of extra trust is gained in that you originally installed the new store via the Google Play store.

The statistics disagree: http://www.maclife.com/article...

Humble Bundle is available on the Google Play store. https://play.google.com/store/...

Then why are they really trying to block other smartphones from being sold? What you mention is only part of the puzzle. They don't want to make phones everyone wants, but they want to be the only ones people can buy at the same time. They're not mutually exclusive things.

No matter how powerful Apple becomes, they have not shown an interest in parlaying that power into becoming a market monopolizer.

I think their lawsuits show that this is not the case.

As far as I could tell, the browser gets no data from the Kinect other than for navigation.

something like 70% of Windows 7 malware also runs on XP

You use that word... I don't think it means what you think it means. Also, the big fat goto fail fiasco shows you how much less secure OSX is than everyone thought. Just because it's based on something doesn't mean it hasn't been tainted by those that change it.

You mean like this? http://linux.slashdot.org/comm...

I've used FF/Chrome side by side on Linux... you FF people are fooling yourselves. It is by far the clunkiest, slowest, least responsive browser out of the big 3.

Like the other poster, I coded heavily for hours on end with no such issues you mentioned. Sounds like some serious PEBKAC. I remember installing Red Hat 5 and having to reinstall often because I had screwed up a driver trying to get it to work. Linux sound systems are still a big clusterfuck even today.

Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint were all really good products in the 90s. IE was even a top product for a period of time.

if Apple locks you out of something, its for your own good

Such bias, so kool-aid, very rose colored glasses

Better than the fake encryption Sony uses on your CC details. People are oblivious to what gaming "reviews" have been for the past decade.

Apple's magsafe always falls out for me. If they are the pinnacle of design then that tech is not worth it.

Makefiles are the devil sir.