In other words "We are heading towards either hell, or communism", as philosopher Zizek said.

it will take a loooooong road of building for them to even come close to replacing other forms of electricity generation.

This article is about Germany where it is obvious, that road is not that long, as everyone (especially nuclear lobbyists) was saying. In 2011, 3% of German electricity was produced by solar, in 2012 it will be over 5%, which is amazing 2% per single year only on solar energy. Wind energy is about 7% and is also growing at least >= 1% per year. Add to this new (wind) mega-turbines (>= 10MW per one turbine), and you see that pretty soon Germany will turn on non-renewable sources only in still more rare situations.

Reason is: Microsoft Windows. Many applications, including Desktop itself, was not fully scalable for many years, and I am not sure even what is current status. Especially if we caunt all Total Commanders, WinRars etc. that must be installed from 3rd party, to get anything done.

Landfills, or as they call them in Italy: Towns.

Android are doing good. In strongest Apple market, US, Android tablets are half of all tablets sold. http://www.droid-life.com/2012/10/02/pew-research-android-up-to-48-of-u-s-tablet-sales-ipad-drops-to-low-of-52/ It is reasonable to expect dominance of Android tablets will only increase, especially outside US. People will soon expect to have great IPS tablet for $100, and there is little Apple (or Microsoft, or even Samsung) can offer there.

Owners of "Sore losers" patent pool.

It said "First Post!"

Except there is nothing in Samsung phone or tablet so blatantly stolen and copied, like Swiss Rail Clock on Apple. Using Samsung and Apple for 5 minutes easily convince any technically litterate person that you are using 2 completely different platforms with nothing in common.

Like most geeks, I couldn't care less about Apple and their single-button-mouse (obviously, it is not designed for me, but someone wants it), until they tried to prevent me from buying Android phones, that I REALLY want. Trying to prevent people from buying what they want, forcing them into "legal" products they don't want, is shortcut to become hated. It is how USSR ended - people wanted to own stuff they choose, but government told them it is illegal in USSR to own it (Honda car or Sony TV) because in USSR we have better products, and all legal !

Either real worker rights, or they need to find somewhere else their own "China", with 30+ billion population, that will provide slavery manufacturing services for 1+ billion of Chinese people.

Sometimes I look at comments everywhere and it seems as if people would be totally happy to see nothing but Google and Android everywhere.

If Apple and Microsoft PR departments only thought about all consequences of suing people around and behaving unethically in all cases where ethics remotely mattered ... You cannot expect /. crowd to forget in weeks what is their default corporate behavior.

So as for Google maps, why hasn't Google released a stand alone app yet? Perhaps because Apple is bullying Android producers, so Google decided that enough is enough. Apple is perhaps lucky that at least web search is still on. Maybe we will see improvement in iOS7, with iSearch that cannot find a damn thing.

If only he tried to look like crazy dictator little less.

Joe Sixpack has one question: WTF you are talking about, who is centralized, and why should I care? Seriously, geeks are 1% of Facebook audience, 99% couldn't care less about "decentralization".

I am European, and I think that fast Internet for free should be available to anyone in EU, as part of basic human rights. I don't care how it is technically done, but this should be long-term goal, especially for social parties, in order to prevent new kind of illiteracy of poor people.