Perhaps it might have enjoyed more success if they had added x86 emulation and LLVM-esque runtime support to Visual Studio and C++ so a large portion of desktop apps could be recompiled for it.
If they bundled the keyboard with these things they'd sell a hell of a lot more of them. They're not bad devices, just too expensive. And let's be blunt, Windows without a keyboard is worse than fucking useless.
Perhaps it will come out in the trial how the file was identified.
Anyway it's more proof (if any were needed) why it's an incredibly bad idea to use a cloud service to store anything illegal. At least encrypt the data. Better yet don't put it up there at all.
And yeah parental responsibility does come into it but so does the power of the default. The default for kid rated games should be purchase restrictions. If the account holder wants to flip it the other way they can do so, but that should be the default. And in being the default it would change the landscape of these games for the better since they'd have to focus on engaging game play instead of skinner box random rewards for cash as they do now.
Aside from protecting users it deters games from being glorified skinner boxes with cow-clicker complexity and micropayments galore and encourages producers to start making actual games again.
The problem is fundamentally one of Nintendo's own making. They cynically set out to make the lowest spec console they could get away (basically parity with the PS3/360) and charged a premium for a gimmick. Consumers didn't buy it (probably remembering the Wii, remote, balance board + assorted shit gathering dust in the cupboard) and without the sales the 3rd parties slipped away.
A single title like MarioKart is a shot in the arm but it can't turn the ship around by itself. Nintendo will have to hope they can keep throwing out good titles for long enough that sales pick up and some 3rd parties come back. Personally I think they should be looking to emerging markets and price their console at those markets.
Shame so many of them chose death over sharing, isn't it? Even if they still die, their platform could live on indefinitely. Think of what would have happened if it weren't for the x86 clones.
Because open & open source consoles have such a long and glorious history. And I include forcibly opened consoles in that list, those which have been cracked.
Opening the console up either voluntarily or involuntarily would be the final nail in the coffin for their platform.
Maybe Peter Jackson will release a limited abbreviated edition on Blu Ray to make up for this. Anyway the middle instalment was pretty good (thanks to Smaug) though both it and the first movie are guilty of some utterly pointless detours and WTF moments particularly any time Radaghast appeared on screen.
At the end of the day, android gives users the freedom to choose where they get apps from. But freedom implies the freedom to do stupid things. It won't stop a user installing warez if they want, but if they get owned it's their own damned fault. Not much different from what happens on a PC or Mac really.
That said I don't think Android does enough to protect users from malicious or rogue apps, e.g. allowing the device to deny a permission to the app even if it claims to need it. Cyanogenmod demonstrates it can be added, but Google haven't seen fit to provide that functionality in the stock android code.
I'm pretty certain Google has systems in place (as well as an after the fact kill function) to eradicate malicious apps that find their way onto the app store. Doubtless there are some there but they're background noise.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.