Yes, but, see, Apple are more like Twitter than like Facebook, they don't need friends, they want followers.

Well, you could try screwing your wrists to the bezel, with the added bonus of feeling like a real saviour.

I miss Sun, too, but she was Jin's woman anyway, you know...

I know, that's why I wrote, "there's an app for that," but as far as I know, it only covers so much features of the main application.

Problem with that is: Farmville (like a lot of games on FB) is a flash game, and Flash would have to go if FB would become an Apple asset. And, while I know that "there's an app for that" (TM), it doesn't seem likely that Steve could convince Zynga to go all HTML5 just for the fun of it. Well, not against the Google millions already poured inside Zynga, that is...

Yah, Android-paranoid Facebooktime (only available on 3.5inch and 10inch screens, but never, ever on 7inch)!

Even if you couldn't imagine this, as you say, the Playstation Eye camera has a rather capable microphone array built in, which is capable enough for what you described. Some games, take Singstar for example, have had voice commands for some time now (I think, two years or something), it's just that Sony doesn't value that feature highly enough to make them put it into the firmware, and use it system wide.

I don't long for it, either, by the way. I mean, who wants to have a feature that enables their spouse to shout: "xbox, force shutdown!" across the room whenever they are disgruntled about something? Or all the inadvertent voice commands the system tries to execute whenever you are having a ball with some friends? On a more serious note: contrary to Wiimote 2.0 (or whatever it's called), and Playstation Move, Kinect doesn't seem to live up to its specifications, or rather, people's expectations. Lag is still massive, the system can't track more than two players at the same time (expect disruptions whenever party people crowd up around the players, and while you're at it: strip the cameras' field of vision of any distractions like sofas, bookshelves, rotating fans, and the like!), it's by far the most expensive motion control system of all the consoles because you'll have to buy the whole set and can't scale it up over time, like with Move.

I messed up currencies once, above, but that's not misleading at all, since prices in euros and dollars happen to be (at least for consoles and peripherals, that is) mysteriously alike. A controller that costs 59 dollars in the US will cost 59 euros overseas. Well, the euro price will normally include local VAT, so the difference is not as high as it would seem if you're just looking at the exchange rate.

Anyway, "59.99 Euro for another controller" is incorrect, as a Move controller changes hands for a mere 39.99 euros. Plus, you don't actually need the nunchuck controllers for Move games if you are comfortable enough using a Dual Shock 3 or SixAxxis controller with just one hand. Which was my point: Move doesn't actually necessitate one big purchase on day one, it scales nicely with your personal requirements.

If you decide to play it safe and just get the starter pack, play all the demos just to conclude it's nothing but dreck and hot air, you probably won't regret having spent those 60 bucks as much as you would miss your more than 200 bucks if you misinvested in a Wii or, so help you G*d, in Kinect.

And considering the Move is a PS3 add-on that costs nearly as much as a Wii...

What makes you assume that? I only paid 40 bucks (well, euros, to be exact) for one Move controller so far, plus another 40 for Sports Champions, as I already owned the Eye camera peripheral. Alternatively, the starter set (comprising the cam, Move controller, and a demo disc) is being sold for 55 euros around here. If you consider Sports Champions essential for completing the PS3 'upgrade' to full Wii potential, you are still looking at less than 100 €/$.

If you walk out of the store with a bag containing the starter pack, another Move controller, two sidekick controllers (at 30 $ each), and Sports Champions, you will have paid around 195,-. You do the math for a Wii with Wiimote plus, additional Wiimote plus, and two nunchuck controllers yourself, please.

Yeah, you'd better not lick your iPhone 4 that day. May be hard for some people.

May I point you to the PS3's operating system, then? It's taken years, a hardware hack, and an ingenious hacker to even bypass the hypervisor on the system, and even then he's not even close to running arbitrary (unsigned) code on the box. My 2 cents: your last paragraph scenario is already possible and being implemented, just not by every vendor.

Microsoft might want to cut Sony's engineers some slack there. And yes, I do know the downside to it: everything, every single application would have to be signed and greenlighted by Microsoft, Ubuntu, Redhat, you name it. Just like Apple and Google do it for their mobile platforms. A pain, sure, but: no pain, no gain.

Maybe they were geeks like Moss from the IT Crowd who'd rather send out an e-mail to the fire department than make themselves understood on the phone?

... and it ain't delicious either!