Right, and in that context my post is correct. So either you knew that and the supposed "irony" is non-existent or you chose to project your interpretation on to me and falsely take my post as though it was in response to your interpretation.

In that case my post wouldn't be relevant to your interpretation, but you can't understand.

Wrong, only if you assume my interpretation is the same as yours, which I clearly stated it was not but you lack the brain capacity to comprehend that.

Wrong again, nobody is defending "men" as a whole nor the men who exhibit the behavior that is derided here stop lying.

Well you can develop webapps, there's IDEs like Codenvy and there is a version of AutoCAD 360 for Chromebooks.

It isn't particularly "DRMed", there's nothing to stop you dual booting a full Linux distro if you want. But really if you're talking AutoCAD and Photoshop then obviously you're suggesting Windows or OS X are the necessity.

Well that makes it accessible from anywhere and prevents data loss from hardware failure so i'd say that's pretty damn helpful in the education environment. Though having the option to upload to DropBox or OneDrive or some other alternative would be useful.

Or maybe they are finally realizing that not everybody needs/wants a fully open, infinitely configurable, high maintenance product all the time. Sometimes they just want it to do a limited subset and do it well with minimal requirement from the user. That isn't to say you couldn't dual boot and have full desktop Linux on there as well.

The whole free and open thing seems to be stagnating a bit, I mean Android is free and open but where is all the FOSS innovation? Sure there are some helpful utilities for devs and admins but that's about it. There's no reason a FOSS package or distro couldn't have been developed that provided all the innovative features that exist in Google Play Services but it didn't. It's nice for everything to be FOSS but from the consumer perspective it doesn't seem to have much advantage over proprietary.

Bullshit, I interpreted it as written, you interpret it differently. And you know how I interpreted it and what my response was based on. It isn't a straw man at all, if you interpret the statement differently then my response is irrelevant anyway. So what is your argument, what are you trying to say? That my response is wrong in the context of my interpretation? Or that my response is wrong in terms of your interpretation?

You seem to have extreme difficulty understanding and articulating your own thoughts, so try again. What is your point here?

No I'm interpreting it exactly as written. I also directly clarified my interpretation in my response so as not to be misunderstood, yet continue to deliberately misinterpret it. However even if you interpret her statement some other way - for example that she meant "some men" - then clearly my post becomes redundant in terms of your interpretation anyway so why are you bothering to reply to it at all?

And now you've realized that you misinterpreted what was written to the point that you have to re-write it to say what you misinterpreted it to say. My statement is based on what it said, not what you have re-written it to say.

No, what I said is the statement is untrue. You wrongly interpret that as defending against criticism and thus make the statement inarguable by any man so you - as a man - then would be unable to disagree with her statement without proving it to be true do you not see how silly that is? Now even if you did accept that interpretation you further manage to somehow misinterpret my statement to mean I am "extremely sensitive", where again you fail. Do you believe her statement to be true?

It's not being "obtuse" it's your failed grasp of the English language and inferences of things that are not there.

Wrong, you are really having a hard time with your english comprehension. So let's dissect it to help you understand, first show me where I defended men (I'm not sure whether you are suggesting all men or some subset so you need to clarify that as well) against criticism.

Well that sounds like a good method.

Then you failed to comprehend it because there isn't any, legitimate criticism is fine but that is not what this is. You are confusing making sweeping accusatory generalizations with criticism.

Damn straight! Sure that sort of attitude isn't going to turn anybody sexist but it isn't exactly going to win you any friends either.

It's sexist statements like this that cause a lack of sympathy in the first place:

One of the consequences is that men are extremely sensitive to being criticized by women

This is something that is simply not true of all men so why make statements like that? Do you really expect people to actively defend your cause if you are openly hostile to them just because of they are of the same gender as the people you have a problem with? That's a terrible start to conflict resolution.

Oh nevermind, I'm guessing it's purely subscriber driven.

Out of interest what is the advertising model?

Also wrt the timeliness of information I wouldn't think that's an issue, if it's more technical focused than "news" then I doubt timeliness is an issue.

If you take "secure" to mean "i don't know of any security vulnerabilities in it" then sure, but that's unlikely to be very secure.