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Comment Re:Sanity check (Score 1) 197

How so? It doesn't meant everyone has a phone. Many people have multiple phones if only because they have a work one. Poor nations have been into mobiles for sometime due to a lack of landlines and it just being easier to deploy and not every nation gouges its customers like the US.

It's also why investors are kind dumb to keep expecting growth from mobiles. They are certainly in a state where it's far more realistic to expect them to maintain their position rather than grow especially with Android.

Comment Re:more downgrades (Score 1) 688

Funny how it seems no project ever gets it right when they change their interface. the complaints aren't exclusive to Firefox which says to me that people who claim to be tech ninjas might not be as good as they think with computers if all they go on to operate the thing is pure memorisation of the location of things.

So let's say it looks more like Chrome and that makes it worse. So the solution is to move to chrome? That makes no sense.

The biggest thing it did that might make it looks like Chrome is making it's tabs look more like folder tabs which is hardly exclusive to Chrome and it's minimised the space above the tabs. Boo hoo, it still has far superior extension support, superior handling of badly formed HTML, fails less frequently on shoddy JS and uses less system resources. Chrome has always used more resources but the google way of doing it was to make things feel more smooth so you don't realise it's pigging up more resource than IE or Firefox. Unfortunately for them everyone else is catching up on that idea and they're more efficient to begin with.

I don't mind their minimising either because unlike Chrome they don't enforce their minimalist design on you. It's still far more flexible and it doesn't do dumb things like force minimalism then put a big ugly download progress bar at the bottom of the window. So all in all it's still the superior product.

Comment Re:more downgrades (Score 1) 688

It doesn't really look like Chrome aside from having slightly more rounded tab corners but if that is too similar for you and you want the added benefit of Chrome showing that dumb sad faced folder far too often because it chooses not to run your javascript and the shoddy performance in general with the added spying then go for it.

It still puzzles me how people who claim to be more technically minded hate change more than my computer illiterate grandmother. If it confuses you then computers might not be your thing.

Comment Re:Half my age, 10 times the guts. (Score 1) 123

yeah I'm sure having a film about yourself will gain you comfort when you have to live in hiding in a country that is unlike your 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice of places to live in for the rest of your life.

I'm sure he;ll be in the history books and that too might be a nice to have but he's still living in hiding and that will make life shit so I'd still say that's gaining nothing.

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