And that's the other major problem with OSS: "I don't have the issue therefore it isn't happening to anyone and you're just an idiot".

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11229

The cloud is effectively a reinvention of the mainframe. IBM should sue them.

So marketing departments don't lie and queuing for nearly 5 days to get a phone isn't really stupid? I'd love to live in your delusional little world.

That you can even write that is hilarious. I am never willing to trust a blue chip company's marketing department. They are paid to exaggerate and tell outright lies. Hacker groups on the other have a reputation to keep up so are far less likely to make claims like this if they're not true. It doesn't matter if Apple are dishonest when you have retards willing to queue for 4 and a half days to get a fucking phone.

From Wikipedia:

The N95's main competitors during its lifetime were the LG Prada, Apple's iPhone and the Sony Ericsson W950i. The N95 managed to outsell its rivals. Despite Apple's much-hyped iPhone with its multi-touch technology, thin design and advanced web capabilities, the N95 had several key features against the iPhone, such as its camera with flash, video camera, 3G and 3.5G connectivity, GPS, third-party applications and several other features

Yeah the N Series was a huge failure *roll eyes*. By the way the consumer electronics market is not just USA-centric. It's developed world centric and Nokia has excellent brand recognition outside the US which is why Windows Phones are selling at all.

I don't know what country you live in but here in the UK Nokia has excellent brand recognition. I personally owned a few between about 1999 and 2005 and the N95 for example (released in 2007) was a huge success. I'm not interested in any forums full of 14 year old basement dwellers, I'm interested in the fact that quite a few people I know have been unfortunate enough to end up with a Windows phone because it had the Nokia name on it. I did own an N900 and it was a big disappointment which I couldn't wait to get away from. My memory goes back further than 3 years however to when Nokia was the top brand in the world (not counting the US) and sold phones by the truckload. Their business is fucked now but their brand is not. Microsoft didn't fork out 7 billion for a dead company, they forked it out for the world famous brand.

Nokia has brand recognition that HTC can only dream of. The only reason Windows Phone has any traction at all is because of the Nokia brand. Samsung probably aren't the leanest company on the planet but they're making plenty of money on phones. I'd hardly say the Galaxy S4 and Note 3 (or for that matter the HTC One) are in any kind of "race to the bottom".

Or they could put the Amazon App Store on there.

Go to your own computer and look it up.

I'm 42 and I used to work on tiny mainframe terminal screens (and the speccy too what a great machine that was :)). I'm now a .NET developer and I would absolutely hate to go back to using one tiny screen instead of the two large monitors I have now (and I would be a lot less productive). In fact 3 screens would quite often be useful.

If Linux and OSX were an option on every computer like Windows is who knows what the adoption rates would be. In any case your definition of failure must be different to mine considering how hugely profitable Apple's PC division is.

No no-one would ever want more storage on their phone without having to buy a new phone. That's just crazy talk from Apple haters.

Yes a 2002 phone was worse than a 2007 phone. Wow how insightful of you.

Nokia has something that all those other manufacturers don't have. Massive brand recognition. If Microsoft were working with LG for example they wouldn't have sold any Windows phones at all. The fact that they have any presence in the market at all is primarily because people like and are prepared to buy Nokia phones.