A hacker gets things done. An engineer enumerates the pros and cons of various solutions and picks one.

The work you do will rarely be complicated or sexy, in the CS/theoretical sense. But it will be put up against a lot of non-technical forces like time, budget, politics, etc. Being an engineer is about navigating this imperfect space. A hacker will come up with one solution, but an engineer will come up with many.

You're multiplying the solution space by a certain amount of non-technical dimensions and accounting for the difference. That ability will come in time. You will find out that technical correctness isn't always the #1 priority.

What viable solutions are there to address said apathy?

No one would ever be for "real change" since that requires something called effort.

Sorry, too busy protesting.

The world has spoken; the taste of an omelette is worth more than a few broken eggs.

Sense of entitlement much? Why don't you try designing and implementing the world's greatest phone, see how far you get.

That's a marketing/perception thing, which is completely non-technical. I'm not saying it isn't a great idea, but such things are normally outside the programmer wheelhouse.

I love that you highlighted a really cool perspective on this new statistic. Thank you!

No. With a non-multitasking enabled iPhone, you cannot listen to an audio app and use another program at the same time. The only program that was an exception to this rule was the stock iPod app.

The most popular example of a non-iPod app that people wanted, as mentioned, was Pandora.

The iPhone doesn't even have true, unfettered multi-tasking enabled for front end apps (of course it supports it internally). What iOS has are pre-approved background services, which are like light gateways into faux multi-tasking. Namely, one is audio (like Pandora).

I use some photography related apps under Ubuntu. These are free and easily available via the Software Manager. The same quality of apps are not available under Win7.

I highly doubt the veracity of that last statement given that Windows is home to applications like Photoshop and Lightroom.

Newsflash, self evidence hasn't worked to date, try something else.

While I agree with you that messages should be pure, you may be working with an audience that doesn't operate on that level. Therefore, the newly wrapped message isn't for you, it's for them. To get them thinking. So that one day, they might not need the window dressing.

Being right doesn't mean being effective.