It kinda feels like if I come to a wholesaler and tell them to pony up for me to sell their goods to my clients...

Can't wait till someone sticks a bomb up their arse. TSA would then make everyone pass a colonoscopy in order to get on a plane.

"Do no evil" + "Do evil" = kaboom? Scary...

Isn't the whole point of unions to extort money and benefits from their employers? I mean, of course they're outraged: now people can see them for what they are. It reduces the leverage to extort additional money/benefits.

There is already a Simple Finder option in the current OSX, which only provides the very basic functionality to the user. My mom is using - and loving - it. No chance to break stuff, and incredibly easy for her to use.

Yes, 2.1 is a silly eye candy, with its live wallpapers, among other stuff. Instead of fixing issues and making something, you know, actually _useful_ they waste time doing crap like that.

Then you're not using Android's e-mail client. And last I checked - it was also the case for K9.

What's stopping me is I'm not in the market to develop shit, I'm in the market to _buy_ shit to use. If you can't make a decent e-mail client - my money go elsewhere. I don't care if the Android is free or paid - I pay for the phone and for the service.

Both Android's native e-mail client and K9 are piece of crap, compared to iPhone's. iPhone's is not perfect either, but at least it WORKS with multiple accounts properly and has an ability to move messages from folder to folder, among other things, and does not have a huge stupid "DELETE" button in the middle of the screen that deletes messages without confirmation, with no way to undelete it.

And I'm not even talking about the fact that a simple reboot makes Android forget EVERYTHING - what Google Maps was showing last time, what pages were open in the browser et cetera.

But I have to also point out: with this attitude "if you don't like it - make your own" Android will fail. It is already extremely fragmented, and simple updates take AGES to deploy. The gapless music playback in Android has been fixed ages ago, according to their bug tracker, but still hasn't made it into a release.

I've been using Android for half a year. In its current state (2.1) it's a load of crap. I've ultimately switched back to iPhone, and only use my Motorola Droid as a simple phone (seeing as iPhone is on a shitty AT&T network and can't make or receive calls most of the time, and when it can - the call will get dropped with about 90% certainty).

What "best" phones? Most of the phones just barely got the 2.1 update, which brings no useful features other than silly eye candy, with all the bugs and issues of the previous releases. 2.2 will hopefully make its way to the phones in about half a year. And by all signs it looks like many issues plaguing current Android releases are still there (e-mail client, for instance, is still a piece of manure as far as I know).

P.S. Developers - especially Open Source ones - should never be let anywhere near designing GUI for applications.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but isn't the whole point of being SOCIAL in sharing info with others? I mean, it wouldn't be a "social" site if it just locked all information up. If you don't want others to learn things about you you don't want them to learn - don't post them online.

Duh!

Does it also add emoticons to the text? I mean, transcribed voice mail is good, but nothing beats the live human voice for many reasons, emotions being one of them.

How in a world can a gaming console, which was obsolete even before it got released, last _10 years_??? I mean, really? 256 mb of RAM + 256 mb of VRAM, no hardware scaling, slow BD drive. And last time I checked, the PS3 OS memory footprint was something like 52 megabytes - that's out of 256! I REALLY hope it got better since then, but XBOX 360 OS, for example, takes only 32 megabytes.

Now, with the current state of things, consoles are already WAY behind PC in terms of power. So I'm guessing that in 10 years (8 years now, if I'm not mistaken), PC gaming will be so far ahead - either 360 or PS3 will look like something from the Paleozoic.

And besides, Sony's focus is really somewhere in a completely different universe - they add all irrelevant features to the PS3, trying to make it everything except the one thing that matters: a gaming machine. Its PSN still lacks basic features that Xbox Live has had for years (system-wide mute, player preference/avoidance system, way to report bad behavior etc.) But at least we have Life with Playstation, which probably nobody uses, and Photo Gallery, and Web browser, which doesn't work on probably 80% of web sites...

So, I guess, there's a very good chance that PS3 will only remain as a BD player. If BD lasts that long, that is.

My time is valuable, where I enjoy spending it. I don't enjoy sitting and staring at the screen, while the game is being installed, right in a middle of gameplay. Or loading screens every 30-60 seconds, IN A CHASE SCENE!!!

So while I have the PS3, most multiplatform games I buy for the 360, as the experience is usually better all around. I only buy exclusives for PS3, or multiplatform games that are proven to be at least as good as their 360 versions (so far I know only two - Dead Space and Devil May Cry 4).

Well, I'm thinking of a PS3 as a hardware, developed by someone who has no idea what a _GAMING_ console needs :( And, quite frankly, Sony has mostly been pushing PS3 forward as anything BUT the gaming console, so no wonder it fails in that department :(

And yes, I loved Uncharted, and marginally enjoyed MGS4 (sans its ridiculous cut scenes and ridiculous installation times). Besides that, there aren't many games there that run at least as good as they do on the 360. Dead Space, actually, is the only one that comes to mind, which looks and works at least as good on the PS3 as on 360 (and yes, I have the PS3 version). Fallout 3 is a good example of how BAD many multiplatform games look and work on the PS3 :(

Well, I don't give a frak if you think I'm fanboy or anything. MGS takes about 8 minutes first time, and 2-5 minutes every subsequent time. Compare to a few seconds swapping the disk. And speaking of the cut scenes in MGS4 - the length is insane, and worst of all - it's not adding a tiny bit to the game. And I'm not even talking about loading screens every 30-60 seconds in the motorcycle ride scene.

P.S. I own all of them - 360, PS3 and a PC, for a good measure - the one capable of running Crysis at High settings.