What do you mean lacking menu system.... ohh, right, you must be on Windows (or *nix, no idea how they do it these days).

A lot of UI/Designers forget that you can't just make a pretty OS X like app in Windows because there is no persistent menu bar across the top to hide all your features. Being forced to dig through that side hamburger menu thing is a PITA.

Well about the only thing all the "UI experts" in Redmond have managed to do in 15-odd years is the Windows snap functionality (or whatever it's called - win key + arrows).

While it is not so much about Android, it is bout Google. Apple managed to keep carriers out of their phones all together. Google could have as well, but they didn't. Everyone knew what a mess carriers were even back then (buy a ringtone from us for $4.99!), but Google went along with it.

Haven't ISP's been sending out these notices essentially forever? I remember a friend (cough) getting one in '99 or 2000 from one of the major ISPs.

I think at this point SJW is about as useless a term as hipster is. It's got no meaning other than "those other people, not me though".

(can't say it ever really had any meaning, just like hipster)

You do know that "hipsters" are all about using cash right? All the trendy coffee shops are cash only. So, welcome to team hipster.

To answer your question, the main reason is that Starbuck's reward program (13th drink free) is tied to using their gift cards. That's probably the main reason, it also made paying more convenient, before nfc/tap-and-go credit cards became a thing, when going cash-less.

Clearly, the UN has been conspiring behind the scenes much longer than most suspect.

There's still a few people posting "M$" and rambling about Sony's rootkited CDs (or whatever it was, I've forgotten the details already). Never underestimate the power or a slashdot grudge.

No sir, certainly not. Better not let the family know.

Haha. Sadly no. Google staggers their update roll outs. My N4 got the Lollipop update in mid February, a week before Samsung sent theirs out. Previous updates were much quicker so I'm starting to think that Google is delaying their updates to not piss off other manufacturers so much.

Yeah. My N4 got it's 5.0.x update a week before Samsung rolled it out to their phones. I think Google has been backing down on quick rollouts to not piss off manufacturers, which is sad to see, but that is the Android way.

So, now that we're all frothing at the mouth and getting our pitchforks, has anyone bothered to check if other smart watches or fitness trackers have same issues or it's only Apple's?

Just curious if this is something endemic to the entire category or only the technology Apple used in their watch.

And how many of those tattooed people have their tattoo right on their lower arm/wrist where it would interfere with the watch?

I bet it's a pretty small percentage of the already small(ish) percentage of Apple employees who have tattoos in the first place.

Itunes/apple moved to drm-free music a good five years ago. So, unsurprisingly, the majority of ./ wouldn't have heard of it. :)

What music player doesn't support mp4s? You do know that for the past good few years iTunes music has been drm-free right? There are also lots of 3rd party apps that can connect into iTunes for syncing, though, yes, you would still need to spin up your VM and update everything, but that is a choice you made by running *nix. (I assume).

I think even my ancient Rio support mp4 just fine.