Actually, it's not highly individualized. Cognitive sciences show that most humans can process roughly the same amount of sensory input. The human brain develops at roughly the same rate across every civilization ever. There's a reason schools are organized by roughly the same age groups in every society. As adults, what sets us apart is the quality of the processing of information, not the amount.

My unscientific method is I can spot a cell phone user from 30 car lengths away. I can tell the jackass is on the phone long before I can see the phone merely by the way they are driving. This method has a 0% false positive rate. Nobody drives as badly as a somebody yakking on their phone, except for, of course, the person texting with the phone in their lap. But even then, the bad driver indicators are distinctly different between yakkers and texters. The former just cause unnecessary traffic delays and aggravation to those of us wanting to be close to the speed limit, not 20 mph under, and the later being the ones who actually crash into things due to inattentiveness and not looking where they are going for long stretches.

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ESPN comes with most base package prices. You aren't paying extra for ESPN, you are paying the entry fee into cable. Yes, it sucks, but no, that's not HBO's fault nor does it excuse pirating Game of Thrones because you don't want to pay the imaginary premium for ESPN.

Your point was well received by me. All these other morons around me..meh, I can't vouch for them.

No I think he was using a stupid analogy to point out the stupidity of the point he was commenting about.

An HBO subscription isn't the only legal way to watch it. It's on iTunes and Amazon instant video, and probably others.

If I pay $600 for an unlocked phone, then pay for 24 months of service, that's more money than spending $199 then paying for 24 months of service. It's not like they give you a cheaper monthly rate if you bring your own phone. Maybe I'm missing something.

Stop using FUD incorrectly.

See that's the problem. You like your phone, I like my iPhone (I would probably also like the Nexus 4). In no way do I care if you like your phone, and you won't hear me criticizing you for liking it. Too bad that rule doesn't got the other way for people who feel so insecure they have to go out complaining about all of us unhappy iPhone users and how we shouldn't like our sad little phones and how we are making the world a worse place to live.

Good for you and your phone. Hopefully you couldn't care less about my iPhone too.

Walled gardens, DRM, Flash exploits...don't you know the world is going to end if you don't switch to open source everything RIGHT THIS MINUTE!? You must be new here.

Um, you do know Uncle Steve is dead, right? Of course you do, but why let a logical fallacy get in the way of a lazy argument?

My iPhone 5 was $199, just as was every other top of the line smart phone. Speaking of only 1 or 2% of people doing something as nerdy as rooting their device, I bet that percentage is even smaller for people who buy unlocked phones when a cheap, subsidized option is available.

While I'm sure you'll get flamed for your marketing comment, it is true. How many Samsung phone commercials do they actually show using the phone? That's right, not many. Samsung have "screen images simulated" on pretty much every commercial they make. Instead of showing us how well the device works, instead they make fun of hipsters, turn their users into robots who shoot lasers to break out of their cinderblock houses, or send send sexy videos to their spouses. And they invest in mind-numblingly stupid marketing tricks like bumping two phones together to transfer a file...you know, those two wireless devices that I can transfer files with half-way across the globe, but instead I'm supposed to thing having to be physically present with the user of the other phone to 'bump' them a file is somehow a good feature?

Also, phones nearly as large as 7" tablets and phones with a stylus are not "features", they are marketing gimmicks.

That's bunk. When the iPhone came out, just what other phone features exactly were Apple behind on? You probably have forgotten that many (most?) of the copy cats that followed also took a year or two before implementing copy/paste, many after iOS had already implemented it.

And if the iPhone is only about style (who cares) and ease of use (most important feature), then I'm fine with it being one of the best phones for the most important feature.