Item #9: No mobile platform support

'nuff said.

Okay, okay, so VSE 2010 does support WM7, but after VSE 2008 I've switched away from M$ completely.
I simply can't take a company which circulates memos 'internally' on how to defeat the competition by cheating (FUD, Halloween documents, 'embrace&extend' industry-standard protocols, pressuring PC vendors into shipping Windows with their kit, 'Windows tax' etc.) seriously, so I switched away years ago.

Well, I've run out of troll fodder for today, so I'll move on, if you don't mind.

You gotta be keylogging me...

Seriously (and partly OT): What the h*ll has happened to employees standing up for their rights to guaranteed privacy as long as they perform their duties?
Doubleplusirony. We're discussing govt involvement in software performance while being keylogged.
Whohaddathunkthat. Priceless.

Instead of ad hominem attacks (there must be a free-to-download template library for those methinks), try to support your own argument with facts instead.
On topic, here is a StackOverflow question (dealing with VSE 2008) whose answer may interest you. And yes, I have had to deal with Every One of the mentioned limitations, and there are more which aren't mentioned.
You can call me a cheapskate, to which I will reply that for all listed limitations, there are free (non-M$, non-Windows) alternatives available which suit me fine.

No, I would simply trademark 'infinity', define it as lasting 1 day, point out that it has now become equal to Aleph-0 since days are a countable set, and sue the pants off anyone who does anything which has any effect lasting longer than a single day.
This would destroy the patent system, give me full rights to any invention more than a day old, make me infinitely rich (for small measures of infinity not exceeding a human lifespan) and as a bonus differentiate between Jewish and non-Jewish mathematicians.
This should work, except for the little snag of trademarking 'infinity'...

I think CmdrTaco would agree.

s/market/mind/

Heck, add the g flag for all I care.
"If you need an X to do Y, why not buy an Y?" This is the mentality that spells D-O-O-M for Western civilization. I mean it. Go on with that way of thinking, and soon all of us will be puppets on strings of the manufacturers, who may happen to be located in Asia for all I know. Feng Xu flicks the switch and we all cry boo for our next batch of blipblips.

H.G. Wells may be right sooner than he thought. What do you want the world to look like? Divided between helpless consumerist Eloi and menacing manufacturing Morlocks?
The hell I don't!

Sad but oh so true.

We The People let stores like Circuit City, Handy Andy et cetera go out of business by not getting off our lazy butts and build stuff in our shacks (and found Apple fer cr|ssake). Now we're barely strong enough to click on a link on DealXtreme or Ebay.

Nowadays it's easier to get a datasheet for some electronic part at a bus stop in Chengdu, China (thousands of miles away from Shenzhen, mind you) than it is to get one from the farking HQ of its producer in the US of A. Personal experience.

Kids over there on the other side of the Pacific still have what it takes, they swap code snippets and app ideas on forums like many yankees swap movie quotes and celeb gossip. Again personal experience.

I could go on blathering about all this but I need to go get a hanky to wipe my tears. It's that bad. Wessies, it was nice knowing you, I'll come back on Museum Night to see a Kinect-enabled M$ fundraiser where you can fly the rrreal Wright plane all by yourself, watching your act on that nice whopping-ass 160" Samsung widescreen.
Me? no thanks, I'm going over to kung-po-kai-land to get my brains some real workout. And a massage, too.

Dope dealer: The first hit is free. Try it, you will like it!
Junkie-to-be: Thanks mate!
---time passes---

Thing hinted at in many posts above: yes your phone can do that, but you have to pull your (e-)wallet.
There are people out there that don't have a knee-jerk reflex action like: I want a BMI calculator, lets whip out the (virtual) plastic and get me a BMI app. Now lets get my local bus time table into an app, let's whip out the plastic again.

Back in the day, when people wanted their wood chopped, they went to the shed to get an axe, didn't pick up the phone to call for a woodchopper at $50 an hour.

Ahh those were the days...

s/tree of trust/web of trust/