Yes this. Especially Android. Since it is Java based you can use that knowledge to program server side apps as well.

Programming for an OS without memory protection is a nightmare.

No man. The thing is Android had a resolution independent UI while iOS did not at the time. That was a technological handicap Apple had so they had little choice but to solve it that way.

Symbian was great when it came out. 32-bit OS with memory protection and multitasking. The APIs are horrible and I hear its a mess to program for but at the time it was probably the best cellphone OS. It is really dated now.

The problem was more than computers. The materials weren't up to snuff. The airframe deformed after just one flight.

I suspect they're not producing these kinds of phones simply because, despite the author's assertion, very few people actually do want such phones.

A writer and a submitter does not constitute some vast ignored market.

It was painfully obvious they only acquired Nokia because of the patents. The rest be it R&D or especially manufacturing operations is to be disposed of.

How much does a middle aged Slashdot ID go for nowadays? I might be in the market to sell mine to an astroturfer.

I'm not clear as to how, for instance, using buggy versions of SSL libraries fits into your whole theory. One possibility is that what you wrote is gibberish.

From my experience you need less Linux sysadmins to begin with. Its easier to do remote admin. So the TCO numbers Microsoft claims are usually bullshit.

You could have saved some typing by not opening the article. But then you would not have been able to write this long pointless OT rant.

Security fixes or speed. Pick one.

RBP is the 64-bit version of the X86 BP register. It is used to point to the beginning of the stack frame. Are those 'variables' function arguments?

It is just fetching values directly behind the end of the stack frame.

The bug happens to manifest on version 4.9.0. How many Linux kernel versions have you know to be bugfree.

GCC is the most robust compiler around. Don't compare it with ICC which breaks compiling anything other than microbenchmarks.

Let me guess it doesn't support all the 4G frequencies modern phones do.

It does get slower with upgrades man. I have an iPhone 3GS and it is way slower after the upgrades than when I bought it. To the point I way forever for applications, even Apple's, to start, scrolling is jerky. Even the phone startup and shutdown are slower.

Sometimes I feel like the graphics driver is not optimized and the binaries have been compiled with the wrong processor flags and aren't being scheduled properly.