Maybe they were just lucky to be not copied by Zynga.

Mickey Mouse is a derivative of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

This would be a bad example as both were drawn by Walt Disney.

It has HDMI-out and USB interface for HID.

Who says you need a NIC to make it a "functional computer"?

They also ask for the source code of the compiler, which compiles itself, which compiles the AV source...

You do understand that the corollary to that is the open source competitors save their users that same amount of money.

Then Android saves its users that same amount of money. So what?

I second Burst.net. I use a $9.95 VPS with them for the backup DNS and the uptime is very high. They are currently having a 20% holiday discount on all servers (I don't remember the coupon code but you can find it on the net).

he didn't list any personal information.

Which part of "any useful data that that I saw fit" did you not understand?

Says the guy that doesn't know that V with reptilian aliens was a 1980s show.

I believe the name of the show was "Visitors" then. "V" is the name of 2010(?) remake.

Could it be that Android phones are cheap?

One may argue that Android tablets are also cheaper, but a phone is (almost) a necessity, whereas a tablet is a luxury item. If you have to buy something, you go buy the one you can afford. If you don't have to, you just wait to be able to afford the one you actually like.

I agree... Of about 300+ newly graduates (mostly from CS, some from engineering) I interviewed, only a few knew how to sort an array. Hell, I interviewed math majors who doesn't have a fricking idea what is the logarithm of 8 in base 2 or even what is the definition of logarithm.