I'm assuming you're referring to the snapdragon 800, which seems to be the top performing SoC in Android devices at the moment. Have you seen the benchmarks ?

The dual-core 1.3Ghz A7 whoops the quad-core 2.4Ghz Snapdragon 800's ass. Which just shows how awesome Apple's chip designers are.

If anything Apple underestimates the battery life.

As a developer, I can say hands down that iOS is WAY more difficult to work with than Android, for completely unrelated reasons.

I'm also a mobile developer (both iOS and Android) and I feel the exact opposite. What makes you say iOS is more difficult to work with than Android ? For me iOS gives me a lot more power to do what I need to do; Google made some design choices in Android in order to support low-end device, which make life a lot more difficult on Android than on iOS. On average I'd say it takes 2-3 times a much time to make an Android version of an app than the iOS version, while sometimes having to drop features because they won't work on older OSes or can only be supported on high-end devices, resulting in less polished apps.

This could be applied to anything. Imagine if the whole world worked like the content mafia does and people don't get paid for the work they do but every time the result of that work is used.

You don't pay the plumber for the hours he worked, you pay a little for every time you sit on the toilet, every time you flush, etc. You don't pay the guy who tiled your kitchen, instead there's a micro transaction for every tile you step on. Couch in the living room ? Few cents every time you sit down.

And if your grandfather used to be a plumber, you'll get paid for his work until 90 years after his death.

Brilliant!

The word doesn’t even appear in the article... yet it’s probably the biggest consideration when looking at a server, be it local, shared/vps, or dedicated.

Maybe it's not mentioned because its not an issue for him ?

Not everyone lives in the US and has to deal with crappy ISP's. I get 200Mbit up/down on fiber, no limits whatsoever (no FUP or anything like that, truly unlimited), my ISP allows me to run servers (explicitly stated in the T&C) and basically do whatever the fsck I want with my connection.

The problem with cable or any solution where there is shared bandwidth for upstream and downstream is that for home connections they will always choose to allocate more bandwidth for downstream. For me that was one of the reasons for switching from cable (120/10) to fiber (200/200).

The nice thing about railroads is that they are long. uninterrupted stretches of land linking major urban areas. They are ideal routes for burying fiber. I see a two-birds-with-one-stone situation here.

It's because teenagers are immature and are worse at realizing the consequences (or caring)

Which is why you shouldn't let children operate 2000 pound death machines.

Yes, my parents live in a thinly populated area of the Netherlands and they have fiber, also all the houses and farms outside the villages are getting fibered up, some several kilometers from any community (the whole area is mostly farmland).

What election fraud ? As if there is a need for it.

You forget it is also the home of the brave. Where 'brave' means so scared of the extremely remote chance you might be the victim of terrorism that they gladly give up their freedoms.

Land of the oppressed, home of the cowards.

The guy wears magical underpants...

The biggest performance boost of an SSD compared to a traditional harddisk is random access times, this is what matters a lot more than sequential read performance.

That and a computer without any moving parts is just so nice and quiet.

True, but they do this with twice the cores and a highernclock frequency. That makes the A6 pretty impressive.

Imagine if they put a higher clocked, quad-core version of this in an iPad.

Unlike the 'good old days' when people used to write whole OSes on their phone ?