Exactly. Not to mention that the choice of iPhone to get is very simple. Black or White, 16/32GB (or 32/64GB this time hopefully).

There is such a thing as too much choice. It is why games consoles are popular as you buy a console, buy a game and it is guaranteed to work with no hassle.

Google are not the little guy. They are like Microsoft in that they have a couple of highly profitable revenue streams which they use to try to expand their product range.

But they simply haven't a clue on producing a product that people want or will want (after all, technology companies are supposed to think ahead).

Their successes are fairly obvious things, online email, search engine, online office suite and mobile phone OS. Nothing ground breaking are they? they are all things Microsoft has done or is doing.

If I want a net-TV box I want everything I can get now on TV with some extras for less money. There needs to be a large advantage to it.

It seems to be easier to develop a cool idea, patent it, never develop it then sit and wait for someone else to do a similar idea so you can sue them.

This goes against the original idea of patents which was to give small companies a fighting chance at developing a new product.

No wonder 3D TVs are not selling well, people know all too well it's too early and that their new set will be an obsolete design next month.

Exactly. If Apple does it wrong it's the end of the world. Android does it then the fandroids come up with some technical excuse as to why doesn't matter to them.

SSL is supported on my mail accounts these days to stop accounts being harvested and used for spamming.

I always think that if I left iOS I would try WebOS. It is the closest thing in consistency and well thought out design.

There simply isn't a unified Android UI and it would annoy me to have to choose which hardware I bought based on the UI it would run. I might want a Samsung phone but with the Sense UI.

Of course there's Windows Phone 7, I have owned a few Windows based phones before and liked them. But I can't help but think their patent tax on Android and others is too much about the money rather than preventing products being sold.

As for WebOS phones, they are pretty cheap.

But pixel mapped displays should last longer than scanning tubes. The electron guns, valves and other components in a CRT display degraded over time.

Hardly radical. Power stations have done it for years, some other food processing factories have used the heat to warm up greenhouses to grow tomatoes.

A radical idea would be putting data centers in a cooler climate so they can be cooled more with ambient temperatures.

There's other niceties with diesel, the engines last longer and run at a lower RPM. There's more torque, people buy horsepower but drive torque as the saying goes.

There's no ignition system to worry about, no plugs and so on.

The downside is the soot that comes out the back when accelerating hard.

Sounds about right for government applications. Pick the device that has the poorest usability.

Not to mention that some of them are cheap £100 tablets which will get bought, used for about 5 minutes then stuck on ebay when the purchaser realises you get what you pay for.

It exists, it's called Thunderbolt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

It's a combination of displayport and PCIe.

I think that's an admission that modern software is too bloated and virtual memory on a computer kills performance.

So you're saying Google, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and others are all really nice people who play fair with others?

Google's Android is the main competitor to iOS, they are entitled to closely examine Google+ just in case they have slipped in something that would hurt Apple's own business.

Perhaps if Apple, Google and Microsoft all stuck to just building OSes and let everyone else do the software then things would be fairer.

If I view the process in Activity Monitor on OSX it says Firefox is 64-bit anyway.

So I don't understand what they are announcing?