I actually have mixed feelings there. The cities make tons of extra tax money simply because of the teams existence. But yeah, I'm not in favor of them funding new stadiums and such.

You can be convicted, as Scott Peterson was, based only on circumstantial evidence.

This, along with the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, etc., etc., are nothing more than big business. When players are bought and sold, the "team" with the most money normally wins. I'm very much in favor of seeing elite competition, but all of the chest thumping by teams like this is meaningless.

I don't think the Onion originated that. Though they may have co opted and slightly modified this from back in the mid 80s. But then, there may be predecessors to that as well.

"Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." - Garrison Keillor

Intelligence != Wisdom

DING, DING, DING! Congratulations, you've won the prize for dumbest post of the week! You win access to google, and the ability to research and post a retraction to your idiotic commentary. But, that will in no way diminish the glory of your achievement.

Get the fuck off my lawn. Enough people found it interesting enough to state their opinion. Who the fuck are you to tell them otherwise, jackass.

Different markets. RIM didn't go after the consumer market, and that was a mistake. Business people wanted email, consumers wanted Youtube & Facebook. RIM made other mistakes as well that caused it to fail, but that doesn't mean there's no market for a keyboard.

Honestly, your situation doesn't apply to mine. Don't pretend to know how everyone should/shouldn't be "doing it".

Bravo! You stated it much better than I have.

You do realize that they didn't fail because of the keyboard, right?

Because several hundred people found it interesting enough to read and respond to. Including you.

Quality "moving parts" keyboards have been around for ages, and I'd be willing to bet dollars to donuts that they fail less frequently than those touch screens get cracked. I learned to touch type (70+ wpm) about forty years ago, and while it's fine and dandy to type out longer messages like this at my computer. I'm frequently in meetings, on travel, or other areas where I don't have access to it, and need to get a response to someone quickly. Ideally for me, a mixture between the keyboard I had on my old Blackberry, and the smartphone features I've had for the last couple years on my iPhone would be a perfect world.

You obviously do care, or you wouldn't have taken to the time to troll your response.

When were consumers given the choice? Yes, I agree we want thinner phones...I hate having to carry my company phone (iPhone 4s with an Otter case...measures nearly 3/4 inches thick!) around in my dress pants pocket. It's uncomfortable, and looks stupid. I've used it for nearly two years, and love the smartphone features, but severely miss the hardware keyboard of our old Crackberries, along with the little belt clip case...I could pull it out, and start typing before I even looked at the screen. Call me old, I am 55, but many of my coworkers have expressed the same sentiment.