What's to discuss? Your unusual belief that what's good Apple is good for developers and consumers? Reality is obviously very different!

I suppose that's why you're attacking me instead of addressing my points. That's okay. I have a thick-skin. You'll come around when you're ready to face facts.

Ummm... I was addressing your ridiculous argument, not reasserting my good one.

Try to keep up here. It's not complicated.

Yeah, a few top developers are making a killing. It's everyone else that gets screwed!

Again, the numbers are in -- if you want to make money selling apps, iOS is absolutely not the place for you!

I know, you absolutely hate the truth. Get over it. The FACTS are in, and they are NOT in your favor!

Enjoy your outdated UI and clunky half-assed gesture suite. I hope they bring you comfort as the world moves on without you.

Ah, I see you failed to find anything to contradict the study I posted.

Big surprise.

Look, I know that you really can't stand the FACTS, but they are what they are. Get over it.

And you honestly believe that that's good for the consumer?

That's beyond delusional!

Yawn. Maybe if you provide actual research, like I have, I'd be more inclined to indulge in your little play-pretend fantasy!

Sorry, reality and the meme don't match. iOS sucks for developers. That's a FACT.

That's obviously FALSE. Do a google search. On which platform are developers earning the most money? Oh, NOT Apple's iOS!

Sorry, the FACTS contradict your fantasy.

Why do you enjoy getting shafted?

You're confused. When has a monopoly EVER benefited consumers?

(The answer you're looking for is "never".)

Successful for Apple, not so much for consumers or developers! See, as a consumer, that a particular vendor earns the most profits just means that I'm getting screwed. As a developer, the fact that I make LESS on iOS than on other platforms makes their store seem, well, not at all successful.

I never thought I'd see a company openly shaft vendors and their own customers only to see those same clients turn around and sing their abusers praises! It's like you're suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

Apple fan's typical response to flagrant abuse.

"Thank you, sir! May I have another?"

Do Safeway and Target ban magazines from their rack for including mail-in subscription cards? Apple does the equivalent.

Does Target ban the sale of blueray players that include support for netflix/hulu/amazon (allowing the user to purchase video content from other stores)? Apple does the equivalent.

Don't be stupid. For all but a few vendors, iOS is NOT the place for app developers interested in earning real money. Do some reading.

The truth is that people go where they *think* the money is -- even in the face of evidence to the contrary. That won't last forever. Apple won't be able to get away with their abusive practices for much longer.

How? Do you accidentally swipe up from the bottom bezel to shrink the app, then accidentally touch it again and swipe up to the top bezel?

No? I remember how version 2 brought substantial and dramatic changes to, well, just about everything.

Are you sure you're using a PlayBook?

I see. Still, other phones can't do some things a BlackBerry can do. I hesitate to offer any as I'm likely to get shouted down as pale analogs of whatever I suggest will be offered as evidence against the point.

Take MDM, for example. Just about every smartphone features it, but none come close to the level of control or number of features offered by RIM. iMessage was touted as a BBM killer even though it was laughably incomplete in comparison. I've yet to see true push email on anything other than a BB (SMS trigged pull, delayed response, idle, etc. aren't push!) but half-assed solutions on other platforms are billed as "push" and users believe it.

I've even seen people compare the ability of their phone to act as a wifi hotspot to features like bridge. Really. Another user thought that Balance and the ability to add a second user account were completely identical!

I could point to older features that never found their way to iOS and Android like AutoText, but that's not very exciting. The point, of course, is that the competition never really matched BB on features. Features, that is, that a lot of users simply don't want to live without. There are unique BB features that you won't find on alternative platforms. BB10 makes this more apparent, of course, but it's as true today as it was in 2005.

Not even close.

Switch accounts in less than a second with a swipe and a tap, and you might be able to argue a case, but you still won't get features like (for example) preventing copy/paste between work and personal accounts.

Balance is oh-so-much more than a simple user account!

What did you see as a weakness? The intuitive gesture suite? The emphasis on multitasking?

I honestly can't think of any Android UI advantages. Do you just really like being forced to use a task manager?

Wow, it's a good that that BB10 will have all of that. You've got all of that on the PlayBook now. (one exception: no official twitter app. You can run the Android version on the PlayBook though).

As for quality, hell, the Facebook app on older BlackBerry phones kicks the shit out of the ridiculously poor iOS and Android versions. (Seriously, look it up.)

Research, it's easy.

Ummm... Yes, they are. You've been able to do those things for years. Yes, you've been able to connect to an Exchange Server without BES since before the iPhone even existed.

Reading nothing but the ridiculous comments here you'd think that the BB was little more than an inert lump of ugly plastic.