I'm agreeing with this so hard you would be a little alarmed. Roberts (of "RSI" - terrible acronym) talks down mobile and console, even though that would be the perfect medium for a return to FUN Wing Commander space opera. I would love a cartoony, gyro/touch control space shooter with "Surviving High School" type melodramatic choose-your-path role playing. The hyper realism of Star Citizen is a big turnoff for me, as it looks to be as dull as existing "serious" games like Eve Online. I already have a job and a life, I just want some casual space-based diversion. When Roberts gets ambitious, he starts to stink things up.

I leave it on so I don't have to worry about turning it off to get iCloud backups of my apps and photos. It's not a big power drain on iOS.

I think it's more like 'failed' as in 'they didn't bother trying to go mainstream, all their buyers are importers and enthusiasts.' I wouldn't consider that a "failure," personally.

I know I'm in the minority, but I'd rather simply NOT PLAY a game than have it whirr and load and run down my battery. The UMD drive is a much worse decision than the Go, in my opinion.

The PSP was pretty amazing when it launched in early 2005. It's still a neat system. There is a large, diverse library of games for the machine. They've sold millions of units. The only thing they've done "wrong" is to be in 2nd place.

Maybe they're trying to build their future audience. I suspect a lot of Nintendo's appeal to "older" gamers is rooted in goodwill from the past and nostalgia. Besides, if Sony's "core" audience has already abandoned them for DS and iOS, would it not be irrational to continue to chase them with an unwanted product? Then again, what do I know. The nerd blogs were all in a pantybunch over the PSP Go not having UMDs or dual analog sticks. I thought that refresh was pretty cool, and I happily ditched all my old UMD games to get one. It's almost as neat as my iPhone.

You make it sound as if talking on the phone for an average 70 minutes per day is a lot. Is that what you meant?

Average data use is a meaningless statistic, and I'm sick of seeing people trot out those numbers to justify tiered pricing plans that punish people who use their smartphones for their intended purpose. I think the point of the article, as stated in the title, is that smartphones are here to stay and their usage is only going to grow. A few years ago, few people were interested in browsing the web over an EDGE connection. Now there are zillions of ways to be connected and entertained. Even non-geeks. Wireless carriers should facilitate this. When AT&T dropped their unlimited data plan and introduced tiered pricing, it dropped prices for the light users and added modest costs to heavy users. There's nothing wrong with that, but please let's not imply that using less than 150MB per month is "average," or "normal," or in any other way desirable. If every iPhone user in my region were on Waze, our traffic would be vastly improved. And if they were listening to Pandora or Last.fm they'd all be happier. At least that's where the vast majority of my 2.1GB per month of iPhone data is going. I can't say for sure, because all I get is the metered bill. It would be neat to see it broken down by traffic type.

First "My Name is Earl," now this. They cancel everything I like.

Click on the Spock faces at the top of Season Two (Amok Time, http://facemining.pittpatt.com/S2E30/) All Vulcan men look alike to this software.

How many of the books in your library are actually still under copyright? You might be surprised at the quality and quantity of things to read on Project Gutenberg or Feedbooks, and the latter can be directly downloaded to a Kindle over the free wireless network. I was delighted to find the Harvard Classics (the six-foot shelf of books that an educated person is expected to read in his/her lifetime) in well-formatted text form on both sites. If I had any self-discipline whatsoever, that would be enough reading for me for a very long time.