The dominant reason Fox is so successful is that it is the only conservative-leaning major news network. All the others are liberal. So Fox gets almost all of 50% of the overall market (generally 50% of the population is left and 50% right), whereas all its competitors only get fractions of the other 50%

Are you able to provide some examples of the devices that you refer to as being the same as iPads at lower cost?

When I look at major benchmarks such as Geekbench (where iPad Air gets more than twice as high score as fastest Galaxy Tab), or sophisticated reviews of tablets that contain rich varieties of performance assessments (e.g. Anandtech 1 or 2 where gets similar margin greatest performance than competitors in both general and graphics performance measures), I see iPads generally showing greater performance for the money than any of its major competitors (e.g., Samsung, Google Nexus, Asus, etc).

I'm sure Microsoft has convinced themselves 1000 different ways that this makes great business.

However, the reality is that there will be no future for Windows Phone when the only brand it is associated with in phones is Microsoft. I consider whoever made this decision to be a total idiot. None of the reputation for quality of experience of Apple. None of the fight-the-power hipness of Android. None of the apps of either.

I consider it sad because I actually like Windows Phone a lot and own one. It's got noticably better performance and general quality of experience than Android, and was available at lower price point than Apple. The product was there, for once. Sad to see it fail for different reasons.

Hasn't this been the norm for years? Google, Facebook, and all that? People even carry Google portable devices tracking them everywhere they walk. Where's the news in this? To me the news is that Apple apparently wasn't doing it already.

Windows Phone or whatever you call it will be toast when it's no longer on Nokia phones. That's the bottom line. No one in the world wants a Microsoft phone. However, Nokia is arguably the most prestigious mobile maker in the world. It's right up there with Apple. It may have been slower to mimic the iPhone than some others were were. But much like BMW/Mercedes/Audi are being slow to mimic the Tesla Model S, they are still hugely admired, desired, respected. Nobody is going to want to buy a Microsoft brand phone. That's a proposition that has absolutely nothing going for it other than a good OS that has been failing anyway IN SPITE OF the Nokia brand.

You drastically underestimate the value of the Nokia name. No offense, but I think you must be American. Microsoft is making the same mistake you are. That's why I point it out.

That's like if GM bought BMW or something and decided to kill off the brand BMW. People might not buy as many Lumias as they should (IMHO because the marketing efforts of one company can't compete with all the marketing/hype behind Android) but losing the Nokia name would certainly make things much worse. I'd go so far as to say that it's the only thing propping them up all right now.

Maybe if we would be nicer (e.g., not punishing the people of Russia with sanctions), then Putin would still be interested in a reset rather than feeling the need to engage in these kinds of aggressive behaviors. In other words, maybe we should try be nicer to him just as we have with China, Isis, North Korea, Iran, undocumented immigrants from Central and South America, etc.

What a bunch of nonsense. How do they "really really really" push iPhoto on Macs? It's there and it launches if you don't have photo imports associated with another app instead. I guess you would prefer that Macs come unable to handle photos out of the box?

Well, you can't blame him. It's clearly worked for Samsung. Samsung's devices have always been significantly more similar to Apple devices than any of its major competitors' have been. And guess what, they've also been the most successful. It's only logical that the competitors should move in this direction as well. Some would even say that it is fair to make things the same way as Apple has done them, on the basis of that Apple already found the best/öbvious way of doing things from the start. Even Google itself has been moving in that direction with Play, which was originally substantially different from Apple's App Store.

Is there anyone surprised that work at private companies is more successful than work in big government institutions? In other news, South Korea better off than North Korea, West Germany than East Germany, Taiwan than Mainland, Florida than Cuba,...

Why is there such an incredible number of advertisements for products like this on Slashdot these days? Surely no one actually considers it news that the latest model of some commodity consumer electronics product has a faster processor and more compact form factor than its predecessor.

And of course, we all know that this incredible breakthrough means that any health monitoring capabilities in future devices from a certain American company from Cupertino will only be late copies of awesome Samsung technologies like the Galaxy Gear and so many other wonderful innovations from this wonderful leader in consumer electronics.

Just what the doctor ordered after what happened with the 787.

If GNU/Linux is too detailed, then why don't people just call it GNU then?