Sure, if your app is trivial enough to have a single Activity.

Which part, exactly, was faulty in his analysis? Truth is a bitch, ain't it?

Come on! Come down the tree, that I'll give you a banana.

It's wonderful! You will especially love their Parcelable interface, that you are FORCED to implement for every class (and contained/inherited class) that you plan to pass among views.
And this is not like the Java standard Serializable, that the JVM gives you for free. This is something that you are forced to implement.
Cheap poor interfaces design.

I'll have to agree. Mac and Windows are platforms, Linux is simply a kernel, that doesn't even give you a shell w/out userspace. What people use and interact every day, is the whole GNU/GPL/whatever userspace.
As a matter of fact, you could replace the core kernel with some other Unixish, and most people wouldn't even notice it.

I hope the guy didn't notice that, otherwise he'd go bizerk.

I never looked it up, but I guess even China was pretty happy with W.

Unfortunately, OpenMoko missed the support of a company like Apple or Google behind. Able to sprinkle the necessary kool factor, and the $$$ necessary in marketing the product. I believe there is space for a Truly Open (open as in Open Source, and as in Freedom from XYZ Application Store constraints/rules) mobile platform, possibly based on Linux and QTe.
And no, for the record, both iPhone and Android (and even less Symbian) are not truly open as by the definition above.

Not really. People mostly care of userspace apps they daily use, and as long as those are working fine, the kernel underneath is not really important. I'd still pick Linux over FreeBSD any day of the week, 365 days / year, but others might not care at all.

That is, as far as Freedom to use goes, the same thing curfew.

I clearly remember that one of the very first releases of NT 3.0 had a feature like that. You could insert a floppy and automatically the OS was trying to read/detect the content of it.

Google had the opportunity to create a truly free device, where developers could create software they wanted, accessing all the services the device provide, and users were free to install it. Without the signing crap, central repository, and restrictions of such sort.
After all, people pays and own their own devices, so they should be free to do whatever they want with them.
But no, they decided to mimic Apple.

I really hope Obama will keep up on what he promised during the campaign, and take proper action towards companies the privilege outsourcing their jobs.

One question. WHY?!?

Sometime, environmentalists push it a little bit too far, and become Environmental Talibans.