They probably don't care, and just didn't see a point in putting effort into bugging people. The reality is that its virtually impossible to get 30% of all Facebook users to even vote, let alone in agreement. In fact from stats I've seen, I don't even think 30% of facebook 'users' are active, let alone in the two day time frame they gave. Or put another way, if ever single user who logged into facebook during the vote had votes the same way, they'd be we'll short of the 30% requirement. The whole vote was just lip service to caring about what users think.

Lol wat?
The iOS interface was derided on slashdot, probably by people like you, for being too tonka toy. It's got to be the easiest interface to use ever developed. 1 year old kids can figure out how to use it in minutes. On the other hand, no one seems capable of figuring out Windows 8 without significant confusion, and preferably someone telling them how to use it. Ignoring the relative merits of each interface once you are an expert at them, it's one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever heard to say that the learning curve for Windows 8 is the same as that for iOS.

Bobo Explores Light is an engaging, entertaining and extremely extensive app exploring light and its consequences. Sounds boring or technical, but they've managed to get an amazing amount of content (we forget how much light affects us and how weird it is!) into a very fun package.

The best I've found is MonkeyMath (for math and numbers). My daughter got it when she was 3 and still loves it, a year later.

I'd actually recommend an ipad mini. My kids have had an ipad 1 for years and absolutely love it, but I got them a mini and its much more suited to them. The littlest (2) looks hilarious carting the big ipad with protective case around... It's like half his size lol. Plus it's cheaper than a 2nd gen! Plus, the iPads can use the TV, kinda like a WiiU, so you don't lose too much from a console, and you gain a ton (like CHEAP apps and great educational software - my 4 year old learned how to spell almost entirely because she loves a spelling game on the ipad so much).

I have 3 times actually seen a cop driving in a car talking on their cell phone, despite a law here banning using a cell while driving. I even managed to get a video of it one of the times. I think the reason respect for cops has decreased so much over the last couple decades is that people are realizing they are hypocritical, power drunk assholes, and not just a few 'bad apples, but the majority of them.

Hilariously, I was just coming home on the metro, and I noticed the person sitting next to me was tapping away on an iPhone. Then I noticed the person right across from me was tapping on an iPhone too. I started to look around and realized that of the 15 or so people around me, 10 were actively using iPhones, 1 was using an Android, and the rest were not using phones. When I get home I'm greeted by this article and can't help but think: where are all these Android phones? The article itself supplies the answers: most of them are in China, and most of the ones in the west are cheap phones that people don't really use as 'smart' phones.

I'm not commenting my opinion on any of this, but its an interesting trend, and a reality check for the statistics of how well Android is doing. This isn't a simple Android or iPhone ecosystem, its a complex system of numerous players and phones, different usages, money making strategies and very fast changes. I certainly not see stats like this as the huge victory for Android that many want it to be.

I find it hilarious reading through the comments of people proclaiming that tablet gaming could never be as good because of some control issue, when it is clear these people have never actually played many good tablet games. I've been an avid gamer for decades and played numerous racing games, and a few of the tablet racing games have the best controls I've ever used. Buttons and tiny joysticks are just REALLY hard to use to steer a (simulated) car, whereas full screen tilt is awesome once you get a little practice. The good racing games even keep the horizon level while you turn the tablet. Plus with the ipad I can push the game to the tv screen and race there, and the tablet becomes the controller with info and maps on its screen. Someone else made the hilarious comment that "there's no way you're going to get anything [like] Civ IV" on a mobile device... I must have been hallucinating pretty good last night during my Civ gaming session on my tablet...

The reality is that game makers are beginning to learn how to make great games for mobile devices. The games are getting better, the controls more slick, and as people switch over all but the most hardcore quickly realize that mobile devices are the future of gaming. When I saw that the WiiU is going to be a tablet like controller for the tv, my first thought was that I had been doing almost that exact same thing for months already with my versatile tablet, why the heck would I want the WiiU? Really, once you get the controls figured out, the only other appeal of consoles is game titles, and that's changing, very very quickly.

The point is that if working 80-100 hours a week is the norm for those students, then many of them are going to suffer and be un healthy, and we as a society should not simply accept, condone or encourage that. I mean do the math: 100 hours of work in one week means 14.5 hours a day, every day. That's INSANE. Considering the average person needs 9 hours of sleep per night to stay healthy, that leaves them the choice of either not sleeping enough, or having 30 minutes of time away from work per day. No prob, it's just enough time for a shit and shower! You can eat while you work.

If there's a joke here, it's that anyone thinks its ok for this to be a reality check.

The summary is wrong.
There is no app on ios, and in fact no way to do this on ios through an app. The 'script' is for fully fledged desktops. On ios they have instructions for how to setup wajam as your proxy.
This is pretty basic stuff. iOS slandering at its best.

"it could actually make a difference"
I'm sorry, what? What kind of difference do you expect it to make?
Terrorist attacks on planes are EXTREMELY rare. I do not lose sleep over them. You and I are far, far more likely to die from a plane malfunction or pilot error than a terrorist. The only 'difference' I can see is yet another hoop to jump through at airports.

Yes, because a real train is exactly as convenient and practical as driving my car on the highway. Should I get off your lawn now?

What choice do they have?
You practically HAVE to have a bank account, or you can't get paid, pay bills easily, get a mortgage, and on and on. A person can hate the banks, distrust them, but have no real viable alternative.
There is no practical way to avoid big business. Even if you focus your shopping exclusively on small shops (most of which are owned by large companies, unbeknownst to you), they get most of their goods from big business. My tax money goes to big business whether I want it to or not. There are no small telecoms or utility companies. Even if you move to the boonies and become a live-off-the-lander, some of your money still goes to big business through taxes, for seeds, and so forth.

There is no practical (maybe even possible) way of removing oneself from the reach of big business. That doesn't mean one likes it or trusts it.

There's a very simple reason developers are tending towards 'freemium' games: it makes more money (at least on ios). Let's be honest, as much as a developer may love making an app, if they are to invest the time and resources required to make it good, they need to get paid. So their options are ad supported, which often doesn't pay very well, a non-free app, which often won't get many downloads (unless you're a marketing guru), or IAP. IAP have the benefit of allowing a free app which gets lots of downloads, the possibility of ad generated revenue that can be disabled for a fee if the user wants, and the option for the USER to determine how much they want to give. It's (theoretically) win/win for developer and customer.

However, the kids apps are absolutely horrible. The apps themselves are usually quick hack jobs with some manipulative child psychology tricks in them. Adults often hate them and can't stand them, but the kids love them and beg and cry to get them. Then they dress up IAP in pretty buttons and what not so every thing the kid clicks on brings up a purchase window and the kid bugs the heck out of the parents to fix it... One slip on the parents part and they accidentally make a purchase.

Honestly, they need to go after the lecherous developers that make that trash, rather than ask apple to censor (yet more) apps from the app store.

You know, I have 2 children, and I'm f'ing sick and tired of people here on slashdot standing on their pulpits preaching about how others should raise their kids, or what they would do if they 'love' their children. It's the hardest damn job in the world to raise kids, and every single parent (whether you think so or not) loves their children. They do the best they are able and know how. One thing I can practically guarantee: if you haven't actually DONE what you are preaching that others should, then it doesn't work like you think it will. That's a basic lesson in life.