... and the 14 people still using BBM rejoiced.

Seriously, they were 5 years late on that.

So developers should get a lowest common denominator API, and be strictly forbidden to code outside of that?

Do you realize that this would make some of the worst applications possible?

"I'm sorry, project manager - we can't do that in our app because Android 2.1 doesn't support it, and FEDERAL REGULATIONS REQUIRE US TO CODE FOR 7 DIFFERENT MOBILE PLATFORMS."

Why doesn't the Blackberry CEO tell his company to make a better product that entices developers to create applications for it and people to buy it, rather than whining for government intervention to save his failing company that once owned mobile?

Really?

Net Neutrality means mandating that developers and services must create something that works on your dying platform? Does that mean that NetFlix will have to make sure it works with Symbian too? How about PocketPC 2003?

What an idiot.

I didn't buy it for gaming. It's just an added benefit that gaming GPUs have come more towards professional graphics GPUs in the recent past.

Complete horseshit. I've gotten the "Magic Trackpad" to work with Lenovo laptops with multitouch gestures under Windows 7.

My Mac Pro (2009) has had upgraded RAM, upgraded from 2x4-core CPUs to 2x6-core CPUs, upgraded GPU, upgraded to SSD, added blu-ray. I use it for gaming as well as real work.

Your statement is only true for the very latest Mac Pro, and Apple has been hearing it from their customers. There's still quite the market for people to buy 5-year old Mac Pros and throw $300 of Westmere-EP Xeons into them to get a few more years of useful life out of them as a workstation.

That's bold. When I run Windows, it's safely in a VM inside of Amazon EC2.

Apple does include some interesting choices in their OS, which sometimes requires you to go to Linux. Note: these are extreme edge cases, but I've run into them. For example, at one point they included a version of sed that didn't actually allow stream editing, but rather worked in batch only.

USB 3.0 and the Mac App Store fixes that.

What with all of those Blu-Ray discs containing 4k content...

Because the iMac is a laptop, and absolutely doesn't have large internal disks available. And absolutely no high-bandwidth storage expansion opportunities.

Get fucking serious.

Yes, it has. I believe it was after the Berlin Wall came down and the USSR broke up.

He's probably under the impression that all Americans are dense, and thus do not float.

He's not that far off.

Disclaimer: I am a citizen of the United States of America, so I can make that joke. Spare me your accusations of European smugness.

Was thinking the same thing. Or Pax Imperia.

Or those silly rental car counters. And bus / taxi service. Or someone you know having their car in a close-by parking lot. Because none of these things happen thousands of times a day at airports.