Google is really good at coming into markets and offering a free product and in doing that sort of stymieing the development of alternatives.

Stymieing? Seriously?
Do you remember the cell phone market before Android? Phones were expensive. Phones were locked down. Not only did you have to pay for apps, you also had to pay for stupid things like ringtones. Android helped drive down the price of smartphones. Android helped sprout a ton of cheap phones & tablets that otherwise would not have a decent OS to run.

Indeed. In the early 1900's, before there were three gas stations at every intersection, travelers would often have to stop at a farmhouse and ask to buy some gas from the farmer. No stealing necessary.

It's still early days for electric cars. Tesla is doing more than most to accelerate their development and adoption.

This was upvoted?

You bought a cellphone manufacturer but then use other companies to make Nexus products

Dude, the deal with LG to make the Nexus 4 was in place before they bought Motorola. It takes a while to develop new hardware. Have patience.

That would slightly interfere with using streaming music sites like Pandora. I open that up in a tab & move on to other things, leaving it play in the background.

No, Jeff Dean

FYI, you can post a link that skips to a particular time in a YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZWzf3h50LU&t=1m13s

The worst feature of a password is that it can be obtained from you from someone located anywhere in the world, and you wouldn't necessarily realize it. Fishing websites and social engineering make passwords by themselves too easy to get around.

You would still have a screen lock on your phone to prevent someone from using it to authenticate into all of your other accounts.

But how old is the Windows Phone OS? You can't expect anyone to have made a YouTube App 38 years ago. Your data is irrelevant.

...why would Google let Apple do it but not Microsoft?

The iPhone has been around for many, many years. There was a large, established market, and so it makes business sense.

How long has Windows Phone been available? How much market share does Windows Phone have? Do you see that market growing to the size of the Android or iPhone market in the future? Does it make sense to spend the time & money to develop an application for such a small market?

And, has Microsoft offered to pay Google to develop an application, or to gain access to the API?

It's very easy to spend $1500 and up on a MacBook Air.

This is the dumbest argument I've seen on slashdot. Congratulations!

We were quite lucky in the chess club at my highschool. We had the star running back and linebacker in our club. Nobody made fun of chess club.

Besides, if you want battery life, you can get the Samsung Chromebook with a faster SSD and 6.5 hours of battery life for only $250.

Samsung Chromebook

Crap! I accidentally modded this troll instead of interesting, and it looks like the only way to undo it is to reply.

Frankly there's probably very few websites now that don't track your IP address

Well... yeah. That's how they're able to send you the web page that you requested.

I did a double-take when reading that summary.