The idea that Android fragmentation is a myth, is in itself a myth. Android fragmentation exists, and it's a problem. Does that mean I'm anti-Android? No. Some people don't make statements because they have an agenda, they make them because those statements are true. My biggest issue with Android hasn't been the fragmentation of versions, but when the various cellular carriers force-feed their own unwanted bloatware onto users. My own device has 5-8 carrier applications running at all times, and the default Android task manager doesn't even show them, so I can't kill them that way. I had to get a better task killer from the Market, and those apps start right back up after I kill them. It's decimating my battery life, and sucking up a fat chunk of my RAM. The fix for this is to Root it, but I upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2 before a root was available for my device, so now I either wait or downgrade back to 2.1.

That depends; does the boat builder use bananas in the construction?

On the whole, guys like to get down and dirty with innards, more so than a lot of women who just want the technology to work and be easy to use. Now obviously this is a generalization, but still true in a GENERAL way. The main problem with this article is this - the idea of actual differences between Android and iOS, and the differences between men and women, determining which demographic prefers which mobile platform, NEVER ENTERS INTO THE WRITER'S MIND. She seems to think it's all marketing, when many of us as Slashdotters know that actual features and real-world facts, are often what determine what technology choice we make. It's truly telling, in that she must make her choices based only on the marketing she's fed, and not the actual features or technology, because she assumes the same is true for everyone else.

Anyone I'm sending game invites to already knows my real name. I only care about gaming with people I already know in the real world.

It's amazing to me when anyone on the internet says "I don't know what that is," and it's doubly amazing when someone on Slashdot, where people are supposed self-educators and intarwebheads, say it. Wikipedia is the only place you looked? Really?

ACTUALLY....when I hear someone mention a swastika, or I see it mentioned online, the first thing I think is "it really is too bad that the Nazi Party had to swipe that symbol, considering it was around long before them, and it was and is important to so many cultures...including those in China, Africa, India, the Celts....and now everyone only thinks of it as an evil symbol."

Yes, I think in long strings like that, and no I don't think that thought just to be contrarian. In spite of what Mr. Toulouse at Microsoft thinks, there are people out there who like to be informed about history and culture for reasons OTHER than to be contrary to his point of view. They like to know and understand the facts. The reality is, understanding how things evolved and where they come from and what they mean allow us to grow as individual people and as a whole. Brushing aside knowledge for the sake of brevity is a sure way to prove you're a waste of someone else's air and space.

You know the world is going to the shitter when anyone who actually knows the history of something (a word, a symbol, a person, a _______ ad nauseum), and wants to make sure other people are also aware of these things, are just waved away as "contrarian," just because the people who DON'T know the information wish to remain ignorant and clueless.

Fuck you, Stephen Toulouse of MS. Maybe Xbox Live isn't the place to point out the intricacies of symbol history, but your acceptance of cluelessness is disgusting, and someone should shit in your mother's mouth while you watch.

Exactly. The "M" in "MTV" hasn't stood for "music" in at least 10 or 12 years, if not longer than that. These days it stands for "moron."

Actually a lot of computer science students want to be lots of things besides programmers, and in fact many of them want to be anything BUT programmers.

US Bank's Android and iPhone apps are what interest me.

Yes, but that's OK, because if you (meaning anyone, not you specifically) aren't a lazy fuck, then you've read the article yourself. It's not my job to fix someone else's awful summary post.

And doesn't describe AT ALL what is happening.