But then you end up with a resume gap, which might tell prospective employers that you've either A. been rejected by the employers to which you have or should have been applying, or B. been working under the table.

Probably because Apple has so much leverage. Rejecting one brand of Android phone means the user can switch to another brand after the contract is up in order to stay on the same platform and carrier. Even if a carrier rejects all OHA Android phones due to a CDD change that shuts out certain customizations that the carrier considers essential, a carrier can still choose to carry phones built on other AOSP distributions, such as CyanogenMod or Replicant or (once AT&T's exclusivity expires) Fire OS. All these distributions can use the same Amazon Appstore. But rejecting one brand of iOS phone means the carrier's customers lack access to an entire platform and are likely to take their business to another carrier. Besides, Apple already routinely performs a carrier customization in the form of blocking the tethering feature on plans that lack it.

That happened when Android Market became Google Play. In the Android Market days, logging in to Android Market with a non-Gmail Google account sent the user to the Gmail registration process: "tepples@example.com does not use Gmail. Add Gmail to your Google Account." But around the time it became Google Play Store, and certainly by the release of the first-generation Nexus 7 tablet in mid-2012, Google started letting non-Gmail Google Account holders sign in to Google Play.

Sunday Assembly tithes to their "church", well, as much as Catholics do (where tithe is barely 1% of income and barely enough to keep the church running and the remaining 9% is given to various charities outside of the Church).

I agree the fundamentals are, but then again, fundamentals are chosen by cherry picking.

Perhaps the thinking is that if a service knows and presents the real names of existing users, new users are more likely to trust the service enough to provide their own real names and interests. One of the draws of Facebook, for example, is that users will see real names far more often.

Doesn't the existence of Whopper Lab mean you can tell a computer?

Until you use a 10" screen. They were common in the netbook era but have since returned on laptops like the Transformer Book by ASUS and Aspire Switch by Acer. Some dialogs don't fit and I have to use the window manager's keyboard shortcuts to move the top of the window above the top of the screen to see the OK button. Or by "alternate" do you mean more tabs?

Because it may influence whether Sega decides to port Sonic the Hedgefund Manager to Android or keep it console-only.

If you want to transfer only the subset of your MP3 collection contained in a specific set of playlists, then you may need software to construct the copy job, even if it's just a shell script that parses the m3u files. And until very recently, you needed to install software to connect an Android 4.x phone to a PC because some operating systems didn't come with MTP automounting.

But without rooting, you can't recover the gigabytes occupied by this preinstalled bloatware that you could otherwise have been using to store music and e-books.

Good luck getting any service that way if the only cellular carriers with a usable signal in your area are CDMA2000 carriers like Verizon and Sprint. I'm under the impression that they won't just sell you a CSIM for an unbranded CDMA2000 phone.

Then why doesn't Google let the Android Market decide by including a line in the CDD stating that if you include X, Y, or Z your phones won't get Google Play Store? Google already does that for certain variants of multi-window mode because Google wants to enforce an all maximized all the time use model even if your 10" tablet is as big as two Nexus 7s or four Nexus 5s.

Just pointing out that I didn't create the labels "God is Good" and "Freedom From Religion Foundation".

Where your link, for instance, just proves the existence of God for a theist. Nice planet, God!

"No arheist is so stupid" was the claim. The link refutes the absolutist "no atheist", but perhaps I misread the misspelling, and you meant something else?

Still, I should have read further back in the conversation and posted this instead:
http://www.science20.com/writer_on_the_edge/blog/scientists_discover_that_atheists_might_not_exist_and_thats_not_a_joke-139982

Certainly NOT modern....Predated Christ by 500 years.

And somehow, I don't think they'd put up with http://sundayassembly.com/assemblies/ very long