No - in other words, the man knows how to live life without an electronic nanny in his pocket.

Fact: Putting the word "fact" before your sentence does not absolve you of the need to back it up with actual evidence.

FWIW, I have not ever had to restart Messages... Do you have custom keyboards?

A little less blame on the owner, and a little more blame on the carrier? How much genuine crap comes pre-installed on a carrier subsidized phone? I'm talking about genuine worthless crap, that does and gives nothing of value to the end customer, the owner who pays for the phone.

The phone is regarded by the carrier as a tool, with which to keep track of the chattel, or the sheeple. Again and again, the carriers are exposed for their overzealous data collection. And, for the most part, people aren't able to turn these "features" off, unless they are willing to invest some time in research, then risk voiding their so-called warranties.

Yeah, end users are mostly dumb clods, but the carriers are responsible for a lot of the problem.

If you need to restart your wife's iPhone several times a week that is not right - you may want to get a replacement iPhone.

The only thing I've had to restart my wife's iPhone 6 for have been software updates - and I skipped a few minor point releases.

I'm an iOS developer, thus harder on the device - and even I only restart once a month or so.

I can't help but thinking you are restarting the phone to avoid doing something that's actually the responsibility of an app. Have you tried looking at all apps that location services and cellular data are authorized for? What about the battery and cellular data usage areas to see if some app is just too frisky with data/GPS?

How do you KNOW that? How do you know its important until you answer it?

It's called CallerID.

False.

Since you didn't say why, True wins.

Lol. Seeing as they are inextricably tied to itunes and ios,

loolololol since it's not tied to iTunes in any way, invalid.

Android wear at least works with android not-tied-to-google

Without Google Now it's a paperweight.

The apple watch? Not so much.

I could use only third party apps and no Apple services. And since there are more of them, the Apple watch is vastly less reliant on Apple than Android Wear is on Google. Sorry, but that's just the plain truth - there are around 3000+ Apple Watch apps, and growing rapidly...

The pool of people who are knowledgeable about the practices, challenges, and daily business realities of the telecommunications industry (or any industry for that matter) is a small one indeed; good luck finding someone in that pool with the experience necessary to lead an agency the size of the FCC who hasn't worked for the industry at one time in his or her life.

So can we agree on these two premises?
1. iTunes software is garbage.
2. People tolerate garbage because video purchases made before UltraViolet, Amazon, and Google Play started operating work only with garbage.

During the time period I describe, that was the only format in which movie studios offered movie downloads for sale. Someone who spent a lot of money buying movie downloads on iTunes Store before Amazon and Google Play started operating would have to spend a lot of money to replace them with Amazon or Google Play movie downloads.

Thank you for clarifying that the big loss in electric heating is generation, not transmission. But I think batteries like this are intended to work with power sources other than "fuel", such as wind turbines and PV. These are not only unaffected by the Carnot limit but also intermittent enough to need energy storage between generation and use.

Meter devices that measure each household's electric energy use for billing purposes traditionally express this value in kilowatt hours, each of which is 3.6 MJ. Billing is based on the difference between the reading this month and the reading last month, which is an average power in kWh/month.

That's a matter of perspective. I've been there numerous times and have found that the Canadian side has the best views but the American side is less of a tourist trap. The Canadians have done a piss poor job of keeping development in check, in fact, there's a school of thought saying that the Horseshoe Falls are perpetually mist covered (historically they weren't) because of changes in the local wind currents brought about by development on the Canadian side.

Besides, the coolest thing there is the Cave of the Winds, and that's in good ole USA. No trip would be complete without seeing both sides, but there are plenty of people (myself included, obviously) that think the American side is at least the equal of the Canadian side.