You are the product, not the customer when it comes to facebook.

It's hard to justify spending 800 bucks on a new smart phone every year or two.

I started when I was 15 years old (that would be 1992) on a Commodore 64. I wanted to write a program that would generate character sheets for me in Dungeons and Dragons and print it out. Then my Dad asked me to write a program for currency exchange. I think he even used it once or twice. LOL. I guess today I would be working on Java or Raspberry Pi projects. Learning was much harder then because there was no internet but the programming (BASIC) was much less complicated,

Smart TVs are the devil

I'm sure the 12 people that use sprint will be very upset.

Facebook users are the commodity. never forget that. They sell your data to marketing companies and make a pretty penny doing it. They just want to make sure their data is as accurate as possible.

I hope no one is paying this guy money to do his "research". What a phenomenal waste of time. Lets give birds passports too, and the wind. The wind definitely needs a passport.

I didn't see anyone talking about home Automation. There are some decent options for automating lights and other things such as irrigation control, door locks and thermostat control. Lighting control is fun to play with, and you can set up a server or web appliance to control it though a web page. One thing that i'd like to have working is a camera on the front door so I can use a tablet to look and see if I want to bother answering the door.

It's probably Sears who wants us to go and buy all new DC appliances.

Google has decided to triple the cost of your off site services. Please send a cheque for $10000 today. We'll keep your data nicely safe and locked away where you can get it as soon as you pay your new ransom I mean SAAS fee.

STFU you don't speak for me.

So are we saying that the millenials aren't a bunch of entitled rude asses?

man if you don't like the way developers do something, and it is open source, create a fork and fix it. Don't complain on forums.

Well if those businesses can't use Linux because some feature isn't available, then they should hire developers to create that feature. Or stick with Windows. They need to figure out which will cost them less. They shouldn't need to lean on other developers to do their work for them. Worst case, they can create their own GUI that will meet whatever needs they have. Developers will do the work that makes their work usable for the most people. The big picture you talk about seems to be your point of view. I'm sure it's a big deal to you, but maybe not so much to other people.

The reality is, most developers have a fixed and small amount of time to develop product. They aren't going to work on features for 2% of people when features that 50% of people can use need work.