>> Apple laptops are not magic, or particularly good value.

Two things that I like about Apple laptops that are unmatched:
1. Trackpad is just first class. I have never seen any windows machine with a trackpad so smooth and accurate. Also the gestures in the OS are actually useful to the point where I prefer using the trackpad over a mouse for most applications (not image editing).
2. Magnetic power adapter. This is just killer compared to the stupid barrel connectors everyone else has. I would pay an extra $100 just for that feature.

>> However after playing with the "toys" a few weeks, we began to set the override button "on" because we do not do the same things at the same time each day.

In trying to dismiss the Nest you've just pointed out exactly why it's better than normal programmable thermostats.

The whole point of the Nest is that it is a piece of the smart home automation world without the complexity. If they made it so it had to be tied to a program on your computer, or you had to run your own server it would have been a total flop.

>> This one manages to unleash a metal slug at a speed you can literally out run if you're in shape. I can throw a baseball faster than this thing, and it'll cause more damage too.

Wow, you can run at 140km/h? Why don't you compete in the olympics?

>> With the latest quad-core devices having enough power to run Touch-Wiz seamlessly

You know your software is a bloated piece of shit when...

Yes. There are already Qt based apps on the app store.

>> You must be somewhat mathematically challenged, because even if you and Apple are right, targeting a subset of 75% of the market is still better than targeting nearly all of 17% of the market.

And yet, 75% of app revenue is from iOS. So as a developer the 75% marketshare means nothing if those people aren't buying apps.

>> That's a false dilemma you've got there. Android includes tools to manage the fragmentation. If you're having to individually target particular handsets, you're doing it wrong.

Hahahahhaha. Clearly you've never developed a serious app for android.

>> Yes, they are.

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

Huh? Makes perfect sense to me. Maybe the reading comprehension test failed.

>> I want a generic revolution in smart phones. Android goes part way there, but not far enough.

The iPhone has been all the way there since it was created. Nothing comes from the carrier except the packets and the bill. Problem solved.

>> Phones should be modular. Want to upgrade the phone battery? Or radio? Add a keyboard? Not a problem.

This is nonsense. Upgrade the radio? You have no idea how infeasible that is unless you'd like to return to suitcase phones from the 80s.
And you can already add a keyboard, it's called Bluetooth.

>> Good luck fending off the javascript hordes.

No luck needed. JS/HTML5 apps are essentially dead for everything except really simple things. It's no coincidence that Facebook dropped their HTML5 apps completely and replaced them with native. Every developer I've talked to that started with HTML5 for mobile apps has been completely disillusioned by the lack of tools, performance problems, and general buggyness and limitations. It's not a serious way to develop apps unless your app is essentially a repacked website.

>> Qt doesn't do tool bars correctly.

Wrong. Qt is perfectly capable of doing the integrated toolbar on Mac. Just because Texworks chose not to do it that way (because they wanted additional flexibility in the toolbars which a unified toolbar doesn't offer) doesn't mean Qt can't do it.

>> The icons look all out of place

Icons are 100% the responsibility of the software creator, not Qt. Clearly you don't understand how software works.

>> There is this company called Amazon - I guess you haven't heard of them...

Oh, you mean that company lost $274 million in Q3, had earnings collapse by 45% in Q4, and is anticipating a big loss in Q1 2013? Not sure that is a model to follow.

Amazon sold lots of Kindles because of the low price that's it. They're bleeding money on that venture hoping to make it up in content sales. That doesn't work for Blackberry.

It seems this happens when you don't have JS enabled (or adblock enabled). I guess they never heard of a fallback.