How about you stop making stuff up? Auto update is not only not enabled in phones it's actually not even an option to auto update.

Next time assert facts not guesses and assumptions

A phone is not a PC. Post-PC means Post-Laptop and Post-Desktop as the primary way people interact with computers. Which will be true for most people except developers.

Yes because the Post-PC would is inhabited only by developers. Yeesh.

I understand your confusion now.

In case you didn't understand Miguel's opinion properly he's talking about binary compatibility wrt to device drivers. Without hardware vendors onboard you can't build a decent desktop OS because end-users want all their hardware to work.

I doubt most desktop users care about running a binary from 1992. They care more about being able to get drivers for their new device. That's the binary compatibility we're talking about here.

What? Are you saying that I'm wrong in saying that Windows has a consistent interface for kernel level drivers? At least for several revisions of the OS? Seriously?

And what exactly did I admit to misinforming? WTF

I did read it actually.

Having a well defined hardware interface like Windows' DDK is important. The lack of a stable driver interface is why projects like FUSE are so popular.

Binary compatibility of drivers is also important to get third party hardware manufacturers onboard. At least define a standard API like Windows' DDK.

Whenever this topic comes up someone always go "well I've got a Linux desktop". Sheesh. No one is saying that the software doesn't exist. We're saying it failed to make any sort of the sort of inroads that had been hoped for -- even in the developer community many of whom moved to OSX so they could have their cake and eat it (Unix + nice GUI).

Oh come on. Miguel has done more for OSS than most people here. His pragmatic approach and understanding that computers should be for people and not just computer geeks is refreshing and was helpful in developing Linux into a desktop OS. Binary compatibility is important and I never understood why, if even just in the name of good architectural design, Linus was against it. Maybe it was cause he only thinks like a low level guy.

NZ had the bulls to do that because we knew that the US would come to our rescue treaty or not.

What do you mean by the iPad terribly? Are you trying to run iPhone apps on the iPad or something? Try running actually tablet optimised apps.

iOS6 runs (albiet with some missing features) on 3GS which is a 3 year old phone. That's a better upgrade path than what most other mobile phone manufacturers offer.

Don't forget...

Sneaking into Apple HQ and steal the most ideas without getting caught.
Most seem-less cover-up of system crash during an on-stage demo.
Number of Word documents that can be written on a Microsoft Surface tablet before running out of battery life.

Of course that vulnerability is only a problem if useless developers don't bother to validate the signatures on Apple's receipts for in-App purchases.

Duh. The test on rats so far showed no side-effects which makes it better than radiation or incinerating the rats to kill the virus.