To be fair... the largest smartphones are still tiny compared to the screen of any desktop computer. Also, your input is far less precise than keyboard and mouse. You have to make some sacrifices to design an interface suitable for that hardware.

But then came Windows 8, trying to put a mobile interface on the desktop. Now that was just idiotic.

You must be new around here. Free as in the four freedoms.

A great use for a smartphone is a portable gaming / emulation device. For that, you need two things: a fuckton of storage, and a bluetooth gamepad.

Some companies spend fortunes in R&D, create a bunch of cool stuff, and... never turn any of it into actual products, usually due to stupid management. Maybe that's the case here?

As a Brazilian, let me tell you something. It's not a matter of racism, but education. It's a fact that we have a lot of poverty, and our public education system is far from great. But then, in the late 90s, the economy started to improve, and computers became more affordable. So even poorer, semiliterate people went online. Now imagine a nation-wide "eternal September" on steroids. And all of it flocked to Orkut. Can you blame the rest of the world for not wanting to touch that mess?

Now, it was also Google's fault, as I recall Orkut was notorious for its security problems. But I liked its design, it was all about the communities. Orkut was more like a collection of forums than a social network. But near the end, they changed that too, and I thought: I don't care about these people, I care about these topics, these communities. Why did they make it more complicated to get to the part I want to see?

subject box.

Then order from abroad, say, some chinese store like Gearbest or Deal Extreme. They will have only unlocked phones, although you have to check if they will work in US (as different countries use different frequencies). I think Android is usable enough... although Samsungs need at least a different launcher.

App means application software. AutoCAD and Angry Birds are equally apps.

I must disagree. The way forward was to move to their own new system, Linux-based MeeGo. They actually released one phone with it, the N9. Despite extremely positive reviews, the Microsoft-planted CEO fucked it sideways. If it wasn't for that subhuman scumbag, Nokia would probably still be a major smartphone maker now, with MeeGo ahead of iOS.

Fixed it for you.

Some errors are more common among native speakers than foreigners.

Drop your panties, Sir William. I cannot wait until lunchtime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You are a few decades off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The problem with hovercrafts is that they tend to get full of eels.

My hoverbike is full of eels.