If you don't know their name then are you just reading them all and hoping on jogs your memory?

Easy, just go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs in Explorer just like you would on a Mac through Finder or on Linux through Nautilus, Konquerer or whatever. How exactly do you go about this on other platforms currently?

Yeah that's why I suggested it.

Like what? The graphics, sound, networking, usb, etc... are all just standard Intel. Touchscreen input works out of the box too. The pen input on the Pro 1 & 2 is just wacom (official and non-official drivers exist).

Most definitely.

80 columns is not enough.

On a lot of things you can't run a compiler and its output.

No, i didn't write phone because I didn't mean phone. I said "clients", which you wrongly inferred to mean getting them from the service provider.

PrimeVine is an example for Vine.
Snapper is an example for snapchat.

These are not the only examples.

As I said, you can run it in bluestacks or just get a cheap smartphone or communicate in one of the many other ways available. You're limited only by limitations you are inventing.

Im not even going to bother to do a lmgtfy link.

Right.

No, it doesn't. Maybe in the contrived case where you don't have a smartphone, refuse to get a smartphone yet want to run a smartphone app. If for whatever reason it doesnt work in bluestacks then get a cheap smartphone or dont use the app.

Side by side is pretty useless when your windows are 512x300, especially when you can't do them "fullscreen" so you end up with a lot of wasted window chrome. On Windows RT you can split the windows and you don't end up with a bunch of useless chrome. On a lot of Samsung devices you can do multi-window setups as well.

There's Instagram, Vine and Snapchat clients for Windows and even an official Instagram one in Beta. You can use the whatsapp web client on your device so long as you have the app on a smartphone to register.

And as I said you can run the Android apps in bluestacks.

It is to some degree, but it does a lot more than your RAZR and I think we're at the point where it is just being intentionally stupid to still consider a modern phone to be nothing more than a device to make phone calls.

The point here is that if you have say an iPhone then an iPad isn't really going to get you anything you couldn't do on your phone aside from it being perhaps a little more convenient to do it on a larger screen.

If there is such a thing then run the Android app in Bluestacks.

The problem with them is the poor resolution of the screen. Also most had the terrible 1366x768 screens which is the awful 16:9 aspect ratio.

Well that's a pretty key point, is there any evidence to support that? Also it isn't just 4.3, this vulnerability is anything prior to 4.4.

Like I said, if it doesn't say "hey, here's an update" they won't care, Windows does that, Android does not. Android's approach to updates is a new operating system version rather than a patch.

Search is a great feature! Having a mouse and clicking around a GUI browsing for files was the most gimmicky, mouth-breather way of launching programs that added nothing for users. If you want something then just type it, it's faster than hunting through and clicking ever-expanding menus trying to reveal what you're looking for. Not only that but I don't need to rely on different operating systems having all the items in the same place, for example if I need mouse settings I just search for it and whether it's Windows 7, Windows 8 or OS X it gives me all the mouse-related items. I can do it with programs too so I don't need to worry that somebody may have organized their programs or files differently to me if I use their computer.

This also works on phones, I know where I put Safari on my iPhone but I don't know where it is on somebody elses so instead of hunting for it the more efficient way is to search. I could just browse for it but search is quicker.

Power users can go further than search and do things like scripts that copy lnk files from the start menu folder (yes it is what drives the start screen in Windows 8 too) to a directory that you add to your PATH variable so you can just launch any applications directly from the command line without having to remember where they are. This is great for when you have to work on a different system where things aren't where you expect them to be.

You can still put things in sensibly named and organised layouts if you prefer, and you can create shortcuts to things you need and place them in the most appropriate locations. I'm not sure where you get the idea that you cannot do that anymore.

Where did you get that information from? I saw they are going to charge for it after the first year and that they will obviously charge OEMs for it so they can make money but I didn't see anything about "subscription".

Well if you look at the usage of versions prior to 4.4 it is most of the Android userbase. I don't think there's a hard and fast rule on how long but given that most people are still using earlier versions I think it's pretty clear there needs to be some support.

Well really this is a special case anyway, the problem has been mostly resolved in recent Android versions where this is all moved into the Google Play app/services so Google can update these things directly. Webview specifically has been moved there in later versions.

I doubt it, most people would have no idea about vulnerabilities such as this or that there is a new version of Android for their phones. If it doesn't say "hey, here's an update" most people don't know or care.

That's a fair position to take but in my opinion Google should see the situation and adapt to it by patching the older version especially since many of those phones do lack the capability to run 4.4 (though some may be able to skip 4.4 and run 5.0).

Even an unlocked bootloader isn't going to help you if you don't have a compatible system image, the binary drivers of one version don't necessarily work with the next because of the instability of the kernel ABI.

What Google should do is force a support requirement through the OHA.