I have two children and I agree with arth1. App browsing and purchasing is reserved for after the kids go to bed; the day is too busy without having to go fuck around in Google Play anyway. Yeah, the older one gets to play with the phone every now and then but it's not a pacifier. Maybe I'm lucky and have moderately good kids who don't scream (too much) when it's time for Dino Day to go away, and have some capacity to entertain themselves by playing with other toys, reading books, or wrestling on the floor. I dunno. Call me crazy.

IANAL so maybe I'm missing something.

Yes. The law part. Are you really saying 'Because they settled they must've been in the wrong so it's OK to break the agreement they settled on'? Do you realise how even more fucked up the world would be if everyone operated like that?

It matters what she said because somebody told her about it, which violates the confidentiality agreement. All she had to do was not say anything. That's how confidentiality agreements work. The father even admitted to telling her, so it's pretty much cut and dry here. I think there's probably an implied acceptable breach ('Well, I guess it's OK if you tell your family') but if that leeway is abused, well, tough shit. You can't use that excuse as a way to circumvent your agreement.

"...'because a world with universal access and 100 times faster internet could mean 100 times the learning."

Oh, you funny crazy optimistic Google guys. You confused 'learning' with 'pornography and memes'.

Besides that, what about people in rural areas? What about people who still rely on dialup? They're already in existence but because some rich people in certain cities will have stupid fast Internet, there's suddenly an Internet class divide?

That's 'kosmology'.

Psychophysiology is about psychos, right? And Herpetology is... well, yeah.

You can't paint them all with that brush. I'm pretty sure I have a decent concept of English, and even a decent understanding of English (you used 'concept' wrong there, for what you obviously intended it to mean) and sometimes I have to stop and look twice to see if 'astronomy' or 'astrology' is being used where it's meant to be. It's just one of those weird word pairings that trip people up: two similar words relating to two broadly similar things. It's not like people insisting Austria is Australia.

Right up until the end when GLOBAL WARMING.

Yeah, but that costs money.

At least you found a way to comment on it.

Cue 'We can save money by getting rid of the 50% of our navy doing nothing!'

Can we have some hard data on how many restaurant-goers in fracking areas died because they drank frackwater the restaurant served?

What, do you get it on sale or something?

On the other hand, I've been in a few offices that because of HQ's purchasing policy now have nearly 100% laptops, locked to their workstation. Purpose defeated,

And this is still the overarching problem with this whole article. It's Apple mobile devices vs Windows PCs. Different products, different lifecycles. Of course you're going to have more sales when you're replacing your device three or four times as often. I need a picture of Inigo Montoya telling people 'parity' doesn't mean what they think it means (or rather, in this context, what they want it to mean).