But still, there is a reason pretty much everybody I know use some kind of web based email, gmail probably being the most used. I don't think it's because they hate it. While I don't know how many uses Google docs, you have to be some kind of hardcore office nerd to really need something else.

Yeah, it did. Unfortunaley Apple rejected it, apparently the "No competition" clause.

Even if the stats you show are true, you can clearly see where it is heading. Give it 6 months and you will have to find another source which puts Apple on top. The thermonuclear war isn't going so well and if they don't pull something really fresh out of their pants Apple will lose this battle, fact is it might already be too late.

Not bad Google!

Thats already possible..

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I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead..

He might find his time as a patent clerk interesting though...

GPL is a distribution license, not a use license (EULAs for example). You can do what you want as long as you don't distribute.

Couldn't agree more with what you said. The Amiga was a breeding ground for technologies and programmers. For its day it had it all. Altough I was more of a "Hardware reference" guy, I still remember my first copperbars, spinning cube or a screen full of bobs in glorious 50fps like it was yesterday. But it was a short trip, the OS or hardware never evolved much inside Commodore. A lot of what made it great was third party. And when Commodore went bust the tech was already outdated, and really no way to fix things without starting over, something that never was going to happen. The speed and UI of the Amiga much came from the fact that it was a hack, a very polished prototype for things to come. Great memories indeed, and that's where I like to keep it.

Beetween You/Apple/Microsoft, I would hardly blame Microsoft for you being locked in to some ITunes crap.

I'm just waiting for you to give Jobs cred for the Doom series, and why not angry birds too, both built on devices created by Jobs.

Jobs had qualities, probably the strongest nose for harnessing talent the industry has ever seen. But to even think he "built and created" the NeXT computer is just silly. He was not an engineer. Yes, he had skills when it comes to understanding technology, but he never built anything.

When it comes to Jobs it's more like "Jobs contributed to charity until proven otherwise". I've read he was hell of a programmer too. To bad nobody have seen a single line of code written by him.

Of course they have. They found Facebook like buttons, Google +1 buttons, they like it and want in on the deal.

"Carefull there, I will +Terror your post. See you at Gitmo loser."

Apple choosed their resolution based on backward compability, so old apps still loked good by scaling 1 pixel to 2x2. A truly resolution independent display can scale any content to any size and still looking great. I'm not sure Apples Retina is enough for that, Apple themselves indicates it's not by choosing the resolution they did.

Either you do a window-based DE or an application based, Gnome 3 went for application based. I happen to like it, a lot. this includes alt-tab behavior. If you happen do not like application based, then you should probably not try to turn Gnome 3 into one, there are other choices for you.

I think Gnome 3 is the best thing that happened to the *nix desktop for a long time. The navigation is fast if you know how to use it. I do use a few extensions, like static workspaces (altough I think this is included in 3.4). It also happen to be quite fast, running it on my ion2 netbook, no problem. Have never used a composition desktop before, they where all to slow. Gnome 3 changed that.

Gnome developers have always had cojones and done things which may not look to be the right thing, in the end they come out winning, this time should not be an exception.

It is obviously a security feature to have trusted sources for your programs, there is nothing new to this, Linux have used this for the last 15 years and I can't believe Linux was the first. You have to understand that Unix was created like 40 years ago, and there is nothing technically secure about it in todays world. This is the same for Linux, BSD, OSX, Android and IOS. Most security is bolted upon it but the fact is that it probably can't be totaly secured, it's not designed that way. Compare with a web browser or Java/Flash/NaCL which is secure by design. Yes, they have security holes but they can be fixed. Unix is "fixed" by having trusted sources, that's not a technical solution. The problem with Apples stance on this subject is that there source is the only source on the IOS platform, and they happen to use it for a lot more than security, like keeping the competition out. Yes, I know *nix isn't really secure, but I still want to be able to run certain programs (this is more important to me than outmost security), and I wan't to use a platform where competition is fair.