It sounds like you're agreeing with me. You'd be happier with a lighter laptop.

Valve disagrees.

ActiveX was not a good idea.

... unless your 'enterprise' (damn, I hate that term) is ... you know ... multi-platform?

Notice they're heading for an Apple-like model? Hardware margins will be fine when they only allow MS software to run on their hardware.

It's really just a touchscreen laptop with a crappy keyboard. Yes, it's more functional than most tablets, but there are more powerful laptops about the same size and weight with better performance, etc. They're pretty much functionally equivalent,aren't they?

Having to buy a developer licence qualifies as 'easily', in my opinion. The rest of the stuff is also 'for now'. As it is, there are already apps that can only be run if they're installed through the OSX app store. The concern is that things will keep heading this way. I see I've been modded down again though, so I guess there's no worry for Apple people. Enjoy. Let's see what happens.

I think feeling is that they are moving OSX towards more of an iOS/Windows 8 model where you are not allowed to installed arbitrary software easily if at all.

Apparently you're only allowed to make it on locked-down hardware these days, and you should be proud if paying so much.

If you look at many of the lists of 'best Apple apps', Google apps frequently dominate the lists.

Nice to actually be able to see the damn source though, isn't it?

The ubiquity of the internet with the general public is probably an order of magnitude greater as well, although admittedly, a potion of that probably came about because of FaceBook.

The applause is only until they do something the government doesn't like, but they generally don't realize that.

They've already stated that they've used it for squashing dissent and blackmail against "extremists" of some sort haven't they? The term "extremists" can be very flexible as well.

No, he's still pretty much an asshole, but he was also the victim of some fairly serious abuse of process, involving governments across at least two continents. As with many laws, you have to defend people you don't like.