In which EU nations do you "just get handed citizenship"? I can't speak for other countries but here in the UK becoming a citizen is a long and quite expensive process.

That really does suck. I'm not best pleased about that since it's totally unnecessary. My misunderstanding of your point was that I installed an extension (I had no idea there was a difference between that an app which I guess is obvious now I think about it) which didn't require my password. As soon as I followed your link and tried to install it asked me for my login details. That's really shit. The developer check box doesn't make a difference either.

It's not really a monoculture when there are 4 separately developed rendering engines. IE isn't going away thanks to corporate users, Firefox is still going strong although nowhere near where it was, Apple have a strong market position that will not go anywhere in the near future and Google has forked Webkit to go their own way so I can't see any single browser dominance any time in the near future and I certainly haven't come across a single site that insists I use a particular browser like used to happen in the bad old days of IE5 and 6.

I'll have to investigate the apps issue further because I'm not happy with them saying where I can install apps from. They don't do it on Android so why should they do it on Chrome.

I'm not defending Google here by the way but people's fears of a return to the early 2000s IE only nightmare seem largely unfounded to me. Google have contributed a number of technologies to everyone - a long way from the One Microsoft Way of yesteryear.

Firefox uses Gecko, Opera and Chrome use Blink and Safari uses Webkit. That's 3 if you exclude IE.

How is it a monoculture? Can you give examples of sites that only work in Chrome or say "this site works best in Chrome" a la IE6? I think it's unlikely website owners would annoy all the iDevice users who don't have access to Chrome.

I didn't know you needed a Google account to install extensions so I just logged out and installed a random extension. It didn't ask me to log in again so I don't know if it was happy that I just exist in the Google world or whether they've taken that requirement out again in the latest version (35.0.1916.153 on Windows 8.1).

That was my first thought when I read the headline as well.

Meet the Australian Army.

Much like Windows XP. But try telling the geniuses around here who think it's just a matter of buying everyone a new PC.

Huh? Plants absorb nutrients from the soil.

Like what?

That happens on Android too. It's Slashdot that sucks. It tells me I've entered my password wrong when I haven't.

Absolutely. If it works for you than that's fine. Android works better for me so that's why I use it. If the iPhone gave me an expert mode that would give me the freedom that I enjoy in Android then I'd probably have one of those instead because I'm well aware of the advantages of the iOS ecosystem.

Just tried it and clicking + fully maximised on every application but Chrome which for some reason has incremental sizing on it. What applications don't work for you?

The fact that you don't have to rely on flaws in the OS just so you can use it in ways that you want to is a pretty decent advantage.

Samsung has had a health app/kit for a while now.