Yes and Yes, you can do this in Android as well. Insightful my ass.

This, there is nothing stopping them from releasing Android products and no matter what they say, their WP7 phones are not that different from the ones made by HTC or Samsung. They should have at least given it a go but Elop is one of the biggest Microsoft shareholders and there's no way he'd ever let that happen so he's dragging Nokia down with him.... I'm amazed they're keeping him on the job, he's tearing the company apart.

Compared to Windows it's a dream come true.

I'm not sure what you're referring to, you mean like when you boot up an old Windows XP machine that has dozens of applications set to start up on boot? The Windows Desktop is pretty darn snappy the first time you boot into Windows on any computer, it does get slower due to software bloat, that is a Windows issue, most apps in Mac, iOS and Android already appear to load instantly to the user.

I think one of the main mistakes software developers make is taking the users' attention from granted. One of the things that makes the iPhone/iPad so successful is the fact that applications seemingly load instantly when what they actually do is gently transition from the home screen to load a full screen image (as someone has mentioned above this is usually a screenshot of the app the last time it was closed), this buys the programmer time to load the actual app and providers the user with clear feedback that their input has been successful.

The user experience should be as important as the main functionality of an application, it's a shame not many people get that.

About 4) You could simply load the main window and menus and give the user input while the rest of the application continues to load in the background. Apps don't need to load instantly as long as the user gets the perception that they are.

Huh?, Gingebread has always been up to date. Only Honeycomb, which accounts for about 1% of devices did not have its source released.

Tablets offer a better user experience for media consumption, they are lighter, thinner and have longer battery life than most, if not all laptops currently available .

Stick to your clamshells, eventually you'll catch on.

Companies are starting to notice people are willing to pay money not only for in game items, but also for perks that used to come in the form of cheat codes. So users are being given the choice to either spend hours unlocking stuff through gameplay or pay up to unlock them immediately.

Gameloft is one of the worst offenders, Modern Combat 3, which is a clear ripoff of the CoD Modern Warfare series allows users to purchase kill streak rewards with real cash.

Worst thing is, they've only just started to figure this stuff out, give it a couple years... we, as gamers are screwed.

I'd turn that one right around. My 3 year old Nokia N95 lasts longer tethering data to my laptop than my 3GS does on standby, and from what I've seen the iPhone 4 isn't much better. Does a 4S even last the day?

While I will concede the data in the chart is technically correct, it is designed to make it look like all iPhone models were up to date 3 years after release (through creative use if the term "major version"), which simply isn't true, the last version of iOS with support for the iPhone 3G came out just over 2 years after it was released, and even then it was running a crippled down version with no support for multitasking APIs.

So that chart lies from the get go. Plus, Android being Open Source allows users to port newer versions to older devices as long as they're powerful enough to run them.

Never, if you know how it works you'll know how to game it, 99% of results will belong to spammers.