It probably is for iOS users since it allows direct access to the app filespace without copying. If services can do that via extensions (maybe they can, hard to say), then that advantage won't last long. iCloud Drive is cheaper than DropBox and 3.99 a month for 200GB is pretty good.

There, now they don't have to.

This is silly. I am running iOS 8 beta on an iPad 2 and it has not crippled anything. We have 2 iPhone 4 devices here both running 7 without issue. Your friends are cooky.

Where is the 4 on sale? 8 runs on the 4s which is still on sale. I believe the 4s is the oldest model sold anywhere on this planet. Perhaps you checked Jupiter?

It is not the number one platform for developers. At best it is 3rd after Windows (desktop) and iOS. Marketshare is not all it's cracked up to be. There is still very little money in Android developing.

Why do you care? They aren't charging by release. If this were Microsoft where they charged by the release you would have a point. If this were Gogogle, where the new release had almost no chance of running on your current device, you might also have a point. This is Apple and therefore you have no point.

What do you mean subsidized? Accept students on financial aid? Have some government research grants? Why would any of those preclude the university from selling an invention?

If this research was funded by a government grant then the university would not own the IP. That is clearly not the case here or this would have died in court 5 years ago....

Pretty pretentious for someone who is wrong...

Ah blackberry where they don't need your device because they just hand over the keys to the completely unnecessary server companies were forced to stick in the middle of the email chain.

No but apparently to properly use FOSS, you need to "donate" at least $100,000

It's not your browser cache...

Just google "Motorola Sues" all the links won the first few pages is google suing people. Several of these are in the past few months. Google is suing people all over the place.

Here is Google suing Apple in August: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/21/and-now-google-sues-apple/
Here is Motorola Suing Apple in September: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/googles-motorola-mobility-sues-to-reopen-apple-mobile-patent-lawsuit-417692

Google has filed at least as many patent lawsuits as Apple and a lot more than Rockstar.

Motorola sues someone new every day. They are one of the most offensive users of patents in the world. Your high on Google's BS.

keep telling yourself that. It has been true for 10 years, but keep telling yourself that.

It would be a lot more believable if Google did not belong to several similar consortiums. The ownsers are all practicing entities, I doubt the new law would apply.

Whats wrong with Firewire? It was a lot better than USB and widely supported. In fact, in many areas it had much better support than USB2. (Was always better supported than USB1).