OK I understand your concern even if I'm not anywhere as puritannical. (yeah been down the compile my own kernel from source road before so no need to lecture me, i just value my time more these days and rate the possibility of requiring zombie macguyver hacking as somewhere close to zero).

sorry I mean AT&T (I think! apologies in advance)

You do realise you can just go to HTCDEV.com and unlock bootloader with the code they give you?

Unless you're 'murican and speaking about the Verizon BL locked HTC OneXL in which case you do know thats Verizon's fault not HTC's?

The price difference is well above the cost+profit margin of transportation.
Why is it there are so many Americans who comment on stuff about other countries who automagically assume things that they have zero clue about.

You're commenting on the case with an arrogant uninformed attitude. Other posters who have replied have basically demolished your argument. What in the world made you assume Australia has government mandated import barriers towards overseas IT products? Its the exact opposite: market collusion amongst the big players to extract monopoly rents. Or are you suggesting Australia, er, goes 'commie' and starts regulating the, er, 'free' market? ROFL

Please in future do at least a modicum of research before getting on your soapbox. GET A BRAIN MORANS GO USA

you obviously have never been involved in any enterprise class hardware or software purchasing decisions
to summarise: licensing, licensing, licensing....

Only a tiny proportion of jerkoff audiophiles and home cinema nuts will be able to hear the difference.
I wish they spent all that time, effort and money on improving something that actually needed improving

you obviously haven't been round here for long enough.... long running /. meme

android hacks YOU

So the moral of the story is:

1.) MS as a brand stinks in the consumer space (xbox is not enough, and only cool with male gaming demographic anyway). Who in their right mind attaches the windows name to their reborn phone OS.
2.) Salesmen are driven by commissions.... in other news, bear sh-ts in woods. So why not put away some bribe money, since everyone else is doing it.

Ironic that MS is for once offering a technically good product that is failing due to non technical matters, they're more used to being in the opposite situation

I thought if you need fast reverse proxying/caching you used the big name appliances (F5)

THANK YOU

I will never, ever understand why so many tech geeks will devote hours and hours to understanding the most trivial or obscure points of technical detail, but fail to do the most basic research when pronouncing opinions on business matters.

As a geek who is also addicted to gambling on stocks, I applaud you sir

Archos have their own special sauce, not sure if they have custom HW as well (probably?) but given their roots as a media player company its not surprising.

My old archos 70 could do 720p x264 in mkv containers with a 1Ghz A8, whilst my Tegra2 superphone fails miserably.

that if you throw a bunch of laptops at a bunch of kids (not the CS class, but everyone) they spend 95% of their time on facebook and playing games. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT.......

They on crack.
Makes apole look value