Well that's how FOX News viewers would perceive it, the demonstrations come out of frustration with the state of the current financial system, and the fact that the people who caused it are very well off whilst the middle class is being obliterated.

People aren't protesting to get free stuff, but to express their disagreement with a country where 1% of the population control 40% of the wealth and growing, being able to use this to influence legislation in order to keep it that way.

So yeah, maybe you should get a clue before making incorrect assumptions/uninformed statements.

I was playing with a 1ghz dual core, Nvidia Tegra Android tablet not that long ago, it wasn't bad at all but the browser wasn't anywhere near as smooth as the one on my 2 year old iPhone 3GS.

As much as I like Android, the UI is laggy and unresponsive where iOS is fluid and snappy, even on the 1st gen iPhone, Android phones have been using the CPU for UI rendering while iOS devices offload this to the GPU.

So while they look better on paper, they're still not quite as good in practice.

Windows XP runs on a phone , Steam runs on Windows XP, therefore Steam runs on a phone. Now would you kindly go get stomped on a by a Big Daddy?

You know what's funnier?, Google makes money from search and advertising on both iOS and Android devices. Talk about win/win. Even better is the fact that MS makes more money from Android that they'll ever make from WP7.

Exactly the same aside from the screen, processor, OS, UI, ability to browse the web, play video, run games and Android apps... Jackass.

Pretty much stopped reading there, IE6 was developed by people who didn't give a fuck about standards and it set the web back at least half a decade. I'll leave you to figure out why they're necessary.

You *could* endorse it, I wouldn't say *should* because changes in the spec might make the version supported by ALL browsers OBSOLETE overnight. We're years away from a finalized standard.

You do need to wake up to reality, If they ditched Flash the videos wouldn't play on older browsers, that would leave most users unable to access the site.

Not to mention the fact that HTML5 is still being developed, to drop Flash support overnight in favour of an incomplete technology is reckless at best.

People should really read up on these issues instead of parroting sermons preached by interested parties.

I read it in Zoidberg's voice. Hooray!

I think you got that backwards, if Google lose your trust the competition is a click away. Switching OS, computer, office package, etc.. is out of the question for the average user. Not to mention the absolute fortune it’d cost a business to move away from a MS Exchange/AD/Sharepoint setup.

Microsoft have users by the balls and they'll do whatever it takes to keep it that way. They did it before and were found guilty by a court of law, they'd gladly do it again.

That's how they make money, I don't see any search engines out there charging you money to find stuff, someone else has to pay for it. Bloody astroturders.

Right, no 7' tablets are doing well, because if they are they aren't ablets they are E-readers. Ugh.

I'm familiar with FUD spread by interested parties in the hopes of taking customers away from competitors.

All the pots around Google are already boiling, which one will you jump into?

I'm curious how the fuck that perfect first comment guy reached the conclusion you're being forced to use a product you can't even sign up for yet. I'm sure Google would like people to use G+, there's no way in hell they would ever force anyone to use it. Google don't follow Microsoft, it's always been the other way around.

Why are we glossing over companies like Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Lodsys.... who do actual evil, anti-competitive shit and troll Google not because of what they've done, but because of what they might hypothetically do according to someone's blog post?

Not saying they're saints, but compared to the alternatives they pretty much are.