I'm familiar with j2me apps, and their availability on phones in general and symbian phones specifically.
My question was, is "Feature" a platform (like "Android" or "iOS"), or a marketing name, or just an adjective (like "triple-A" or "mobile")?

What does the word "Feature" or term "feature phone apps" mean here?

A) We obviously have different priorities. I'll continue to be happy with other devices and you'll continue to be happy with Apple devices. That won't change.

B) Your argument, as a whole, is bunk. Apple users switched to the iPod when it was, at best, a weak contender in the MP3 player market, and to the iPhone from other phones, smart or otherwise, in 2007, when there were no third party apps for the iPhone and Steve Jobs was saying there never would be, because web "apps" should be good enough. No "software ecosystem" and no sign of one. No matter how awesome the iDevices get, this sort of behavior will always remain telling of some significant driving force behind these decisions that has nothing to do with the quality of the device. Apple will never revamp their pricing due to competition, because Apple users will keep buying Apple products no matter how they compare to the competition.

If the animations on the Android device always lag behind or are always jerky then you have a point, but not one related to this subthread. We are specifically discussing situations where the otherwise-smooth animation is interrupted. *Something* is causing that interruption, and that something has a higher (well, likely the same) priority as the animation, and that's how I want it to be.

I would rather have no animations and a faster system. This is why I have "eye candy" turned off in my desktop window manager. People who like the way Apple devices handle this situation are the same people who have animations on their menus in their desktop OS. They make it appear smoother and prettier, and really just slow down every single menu operation by some fraction of a second.

If the animation slows down, that's a good sign that SOMETHING else is going on behind the scenes and the CPU isn't idle. If the CPU was idle then there wouldn't be anything to slow down the animation.

There are only so many CPU cycles to go around. By showing you that nice smooth 60FPS scrolling animation, they are slowing down something else that probably has some actual productive function. Would you rather have a smooth transition that takes 1 second or a jerky animation (or none at all) that takes .5 seconds? The different answers to that question are what separate "Apple Users" from the rest of us.

This goes back to the iOS app startup "screenshot" requirement. Apple requires apps to include a screenshot to be displayed before the app completely opens, to trick users into thinking the phone is faster than it is. The practical effect is that every single app is 20-100kB larger and starts a fraction of a second slower, but "Apple Users" don't care about that, they just want it to be prettier.

If their transmissions extend into the GPS band then they will be violating their waiver and subject to having their transmitters shut down.

If your GPS is sensitive to that other band when it shouldn't be, it's broken.

Where's the problem?

Does this refer to using copies of tests to study, or clandestinely during a test to really-really-cheat?

As in Fishead's comment above yours, they use this for returns. If you lose the receipt, they can pull up your purchase history, at every RadioShack in the country, by your name and zip code, or name and phone number, or any other unique identifying information.

I haven't seen anyone else's comments, or any front page stories below the top 5, since the new layout went live. There's nowhere to go for help. Maybe someone will respond to this post before I give up on /. :(

3 megabytes in 10 days is six 2kB packets per hour. I don't find that unreasonable at all. My PC generates more ARP traffic than that.