Have you ever been target shooting? Having to reload a handgun after every three rounds would be a significant inconvenience, for no actual benefit. That's not to say that some sort of limit on high-capacity magazines may not have some effect, but 3 is probably going a bit far.

Also, shotguns are only limited to three rounds when used for hunting or trap/skeet competitions. You can easily find models that hold 7 rounds, e.g.

The app has the ability to sign up for a free account; Microsoft either never had or offered to remove (I've seen different stories on different sites) the ability to elect to subscribe to additional storage from the app.

The Skydrive app that Apple refused to approve doesn't allow in-app sign-up/purchase of subscriptions. It's a free app that works with a service that has an optional subscription component (you can pay for additional storage) ... but you can only buy the subscription through the website, not the iOS app. Apple wanted a 30% cut on those subscription revenues anyway and Microsoft told them to go take a hike. The same concern applies to Microsoft's plan to release Office apps for iOS: Apple wants a cut of Office365 subscriptions just because the apps will work with that service, even though users aren't subscribing or making a purchase through the app.

OP has a point though. While you don't explicitly try to extend your control beyond your jurisdiction, when it comes to privacy protection on major websites, we all benefit from Europe's oversight, even here in the US, because it's much easier for sites to just make their whole system work in a way that satisfies European regulations rather than fragmenting into different sub-sites for each jurisdiction.

But Windows Phone does have apps. It has lots of apps, actually. Not the sheer numbers of iOS and Android just yet, though Microsoft's outreach efforts to developers, or their view of the strength of the platform, is such that the selection has been growing at the same rate Apple's did after their launch and faster than Androids. But I can't remember the last time I went to look for something in the Marketplace and came up empty.

You could add to that the issue of integrated features being good enough to make apps redundant (e.g. Bing Local Scout > Yelp!; Bing Music Search > Shazaam!; Bing Vison > tag reader apps; etc.), but all those apps are available regardless, along with all the other big names, and several have better UI experiences on WP than on iOS.

Really, the idea that there aren't apps available is FUD these days. That hasn't been a serious roadblock for a year or more, and the situation is improving all the time. And the presumptive ease of porting apps between WP8 and Win8 can only help in the future.

What Windows Phone really still lacks is consumer awareness, retail sales support, and marketing.

Yeah, he's just gonna take it lying down.

Perhaps this approach by OEMs is why Microsoft felt the need to produce its own Surface line. It'll be interesting to see how the pricing compares once they announce it.

They don't need to lock out non-Windows phones. They just need to have better integration/features on Windows Phone than on the competition. Office, SkyDrive, and SharePoint integration is a big start in that direction for business needs. Xbox, music, etc. integration and common cross-form-factor UI experience is the direction they're starting in for consumer needs. We'll see how the market responds, but it definitely has potential.

So, about as much electricity as a few houses, distributed nationwide. Yep, that's in the noise.

Well, except for all that's involved in manufacturing the new fridge, discharging the refrigerant, disposing of the old one, etc. ...

Clearly his keyboard failed the test:

According to this study, 8% of all accidents (12% of those on limited-access highways) are attributed to insufficient visibility in rearview mirrors when changing lanes. If it weren't a major problem, they wouldn't mandate side mirrors on cars. There are a significant number of collisions caused by tractor-trailer trucks changing lanes into cars too, in the US. I don't know the frequency of other accident types (running off the road/into guardrails, etc.) on such highways, but lane-change maneuvers are statistically one of the most dangerous things you regularly do in a car.

While I agree with your overall point that speed alone doesn't increase the likelihood of a collision, it does undoubtedly increase the severity of a collision. I'm all for higher speed limits, and wish that we'd have a more autobahn-like system, where there are simply no rural speed limits at all in stretches where the interstates are sufficiently safe to justify that. But I do want to point out a few factual issues here:

The writers of the article may not have picked up on it yet, but Iowa has recently reported an increase in interstate highway fatalities since raising their speed limit from 65 to 70. (On the other hand, several of the western states saw declines in accident rates back when they raised speed limits due to the reduction of the speed differential between vehicles, since many people were driving that fast already and the change was that the slowpokes were no longer driving quite so much slower than everyone else.)

On the contrary, lane-change accidents are among the most common. They're just almost never fatal.

Generally true. And as other commenters have said, you might as well go for REALLY dead rather than maimed and brain-damaged if you survive.

I think that's the whole point of the color/collapse discussion, though, right? Without the ability to collapse comments, there's a real disincentive to including them, as they clutter the code and can make it difficult to read/follow directly. If you can collapse/hide them so that they don't obscure the code, then there's no longer a need to declutter by leaving them out, and hopefully more will be included. That argument, however, presupposes an intentional, aesthetic decision behind the lack of comments, while your point on lazy coders leaving sparse or cryptic comments is entirely valid. It's sloppy and lazy programmers that are the problem.

They've been closing some facilities and going through layoffs, but they do still make their flagship products themselves rather than outsourcing. A new Lumia 920 or the like will still be made in a Nokia facility, not by Chinese kids.