Microsoft released a testing product to gauge user interaction. The normal ways companies do this is ask users to sit and use a product and stand behind them watching their every move. No. The latter situation is not worse. If you don't want to participate in a testing release, then don't participate. It is completely expected that they log keystrokes, and though no one has mentioned it I wouldn't be surprised if they log mouse travel too.

Oh right, though I still don't understand your comment, especially since Android devices used to be a USB Mass Storage Device.

I thought the move to MTP was due to the way the OS handles such devices exposing more functionality. e.g. Nikon's DSLRs used to be USB Mass Storage and upset a lot of people when they switched to MTP. The reason was detecting the device as a media device exposed the camera to remote control ability and the ability to get a continuous live video feed on the PC. I always figured a mobile phone as a device with a myriad of different sensors and features makes more sense as an MTP device.

I don't understand your comment as my Android phone from a few years back was recognised as a USB Mass storage device.

Most users do care as can be seen by any Slashdot comments on android, iOS, Linux, etc. In fact there's few things users seen to care about not than how their system looks and how fast it is.

Also if you don't think Wayland will make the ui more responsive then please invite me over to share some of your drugs. X for all its strengths from the 90s is the least efficient way of making something appear on a display on the current committing world. One of Wayland key drivers is not to create some 100 different calls many of which are blocking just to make a pop-up menu appear. X is painfully slow and unresponsive regardless of the hardware used. It used to be efficient over the network but that ended in the last 90s too when other technologies overtook it there too

Clearly more difficult than a Google search. Seriously the first three articles I click on have links to apps and YouTube videos of how to do it. But whatever, enjoy your cyanogen mod. You need it for adhoc support anyway since android doesn't support it. Just don't sit there and claim USB otg doesn't work because you haven't put the effort in.

By the way the absurdity of complaining about an app that costs half the price of the USB otg cable and 0.75% of the tablet cost is astounding.

Oh and while cm installs work week and are automated for old hardware I wish you the best if luck installing it on a brand new tablet where choice boils down to spend $4 or spend a week battling with a buggy nightly build that barely works and takes forever to become stable.

In 2012 it was damn difficult to install Cm. $4 well spent.

Right because rooting android and editing a text file or simply spending $4 is so much easier than installing CM.

Something has been validatedvalidated in this thread that's for sure.

You haven't met any real audio engineers have you. I don't even think Dr.Dre would use Beats headphones when preparing the final track for release.

That's funny. I don't remember taking a hearing aid to a concert so I could turn up the bass on live music. Flat response is what I want my speakers to produce. If bass is what was supposed to come out of a song, then the producer / engineer should have taken care of that at the mixing desk.

Yeah. ... If only there were developers working on other window systems to make them less wishful thinking. Oh well.

Or just wait.

I mean it's not like there aren't 100000 people out there with your exact complaints. Surely at least one person out there is a programmer who could actually publish the result of his work for others to use.

Ok I'm being slightly facetious. But the reality is the Wayland crew have demonstrated both VNC style remote rendering, and RDP style remote rendering and there was even some example code in Weston to do it. No one is asking you to switch to Wayland, but given how wide spread the ability to remotely run applications from a command line using an environment variable is, my view is that this is a problem which will be solved by someone given how the underlying protocol doesn't actually do anything to prevent it.

The way I have watched Linux evolve over the last 20 years has made me realise that even though I can't code and this open source thing is quietly useless to me, the problems do get solved when I'm not the only one out there experiencing them.

Now re-guess how many applications would adopt it in the name of smoother faster and (I'll admit this will creep in) shinier UI animations if it didn't break something in the process?

The fact that most of the X-window system isn't hardware accelerated is really nothing to be very proud of. In any case it's not the job of the application, it's the job of the toolkit or framework to do that.

X's only current saving grace is the slow development of Wayland. It seems producers of window managers are falling over themselves to implement Wayland support despite the general consensus that it's not actually production ready.

X is far from perfect. But unlike a lot of other "standards" which are far from perfect, only application support is what is holding X up as the default Linux distro of choice. If I had this discussion with you 10 years ago I would have used Xfree86 as the example package that is standard in all Linux distros. Yet after the X.Org fork and the code cleanup removing some 100000 lines of unused code everyone couldn't start using X.Org fast enough.

And yet I really enjoy working with mine. Granted I wouldn't be able to live without the mouse and keyboard, but a touch-screen augments it really nicely.

Vanilla Android most definitely does support USB OTG and I use a Nexus 7 with USB based telemetry for my quad copter. By default out of the box it won't automount USB devices, but there are two options. Either buy an app that sits and waits for a USB Mass Storage device which will automount it, or root the device with the instructions on Google's own website (rooting a Nexus device is perfectly legit) and follow some video guides on setting it up to automount.

That makes no sense what so ever. Tell me again how USB Mass Storage is magically different from the myriad of devices out there which have SD cards?
Also the Nexus 7 2012 has supported USB Mass Storage from the beginning. It mounts in /etc/usb. But you can't move apps to it. You can however move apps to external SD cards on devices which have support for them.

The 2012 Nexus 7 supports usb mass storage and has supported it even with the original version of Android shipped.