Point 2. The Tyranny of the Activity

Android, by contrast, pushes you to design everything as small, self- contained mini-applications

That sounds a bit like the old UNIX principle. And what's wrong with having applications that do small things and do it well. I don't want a picture application with it's own twitter functionality, I have a proper twitter client for that. etc.

The biggest reason he gives while this is bad is because it destroys then recreates an activity upon rotating the screen. What I've noticed on my droid is that application refresh the screen when the screen is rotated. To get around the refreshing, developers have to hack around google's API.

What about the computers that are powered by a nuclear reactor?

It's still wasting company money. Who cares about how much CO2 is put out when really all the company really cares about is how much money they're wasting? For that matter, if we turned our computers off at home, we'd save money on our own bills. I know my power bill would probably be $20-$30 less if I turned my computer off when it wasn't in use.

You must be from Cincinnati. the geography is familiar, as are the experiences.

Not the GP, but I grew up not too far from Tri-County mall. Microcenter is definitely the best electronics store in that area. I went there while visiting my parents back during Christmas; it was the busiest I've ever seen it just a few days after new years - the parking lot is just not meant to be at full capacity.