Don't hold you breath. You can only ask those pertinent questions because you can imagine the app given a very incomplete outline. Artificial Imagination is even further away than Artificial Intelligence.

What flowcharts encourage is programming with gotos. They became outdated back in the days when structured programming came in. JSP became the thing. Then later various object diagrams being more or less standardised as UML.

The first job interview I had back in 1984 they asked me to draw a flowchart for a certain algorithm. I told them they were outdated and gave them a JSP diagram instead. And I got the job as a result. That's how out of data flowcharts are.

That question became irrelevant given that the premise that the iPhones are worse than the HTC One was wrong. Even if it were relevant, if you want to know go look - I certainly don't follow Android designs.

But you are still ignoring the fact that the phone you presented as a paradigm is more easily bent than the iPhone 6 Plus and the same as the iPhone 6. Evidence via Consumer Reports.You had a chance to prove you weren't just a hater troll, and you failed.

End of conversation. You've proven yourself not to be interested in the truth.

Yes. You can also order at the counter in France and elsewere. But the norm is table service.

I didn't make myself clear. This has been studied, and talking on mobile phone *IS* significantly more annoying than people holding a conversation. These studies have been a story on Slashdot previously.

Maximisation of total happiness. If there was just the minority that were annoyed, then OK. But it's a lot of people. Trains often offer carriages where phones are banned. That may be an option on larger planes with sections.

Clearly it's the latter.

I'm in the UK. Busy take-away food places also ask for names when they are busy, and you will have to wait for the food. And I'm not talking about ones that are US franchises.

But sure the culture probably did start in the US, as did the whole fast food and large-cup-coffee shops thing.

European style is to sit at a table and be served by a waiter.

What lie are you referring to?

This has been studied, and the studies have been posted previously on Slashdot. People talking on phones are annoying. More annoying than people having conversations. Both because people on phones tend to raise their voices in the belief that they need to to be heard on the other end of the phone. And because half a loud conversation draws attention - the brain scambles to work out what's being said, because the brain is a pattern machine machine and it's being presented with a missing element. The voice COULD be trying to raise the alarm.

Ignoring isn't an entirely controllable thing. Would that it were. One person may be ignoring something, whilst another is driven to distraction. This isn't because the one being annoyed chose to be annoyed.

You obviously haven't been to many coffee shops. Starbucks usually use names for customers as do plenty of other coffee shops.

So he's one of the 6 people who have bent iPhones. Amazing.

How's the unemployment going?

Before this CR report the HTX One had been held up as a example of the robustness that the iPhone 6 Plus didn't have.

Also, previously, Apple not having a "phablet" sized phone was held up as a weakness. Now it has one, it's being criticised for being too big.

Apple derangement syndrome.

Funnily enough in the comments in the previous story of the iPhone 6 being bendy, the HTC One was held up as an example of a sturdy Android phone that the iPhone was worse than.

Was there a slashdot hissy fit about the HTC One being bendy when it came out? No. Of course not. Apple derangement syndrome isn't set off by HTC product releases.

That's your opinion and belief of some myths. Unfortunately it doesn't account for the success of Apple - the most successful technology company in the world. And it's that successful because most Apple products are far more desirable than anyone else's.

What have you done that makes you think you know better?