I would go to BBB and attorney state general on that, then there's a record and papertrail. Manager of a fast food chain calling my boss because I left a bad review is absurd.

Agreed. Foursquare is dying. Facebook allows check-ins, so no one is using foursquare. So if your website is dying how do you get some press coverage? Make an outrageous claim that you're going to publish the full names and locations of all of your customers! Instant news coverage! 3 days later, claim due to "public outcry" you're changing your mind! Instant hero and more press! Thousands of new users sign up to the website! Marketing Basics 101 right there

While I agree sony sucks, very few ps3 customers care if they can put Linux on their ps3 and there is nothing people can do about malware on a PC they already bought and thats easy to remove. Instagram's new TOS was saying they own all your photos and would sell them to anyone that paid and you'd get nothing. That's a little different then what Sony did.

I believe the 25% drop due to the new TOS, because if anything people are uploading MORE pics during the holidays, not less.

RTFA: Netflix/crackle/YouTube/playing games is considered "watching TV", study was trying to see who was surfing with their TV, like going to /. or Facebook and reading. Your kids watching video on your tv is not "using the TV as a computer"...... unless you think computers were made for watching videos, in which case your geek card is formally revoked and you may leave thru the door on your right.

Did they really need a study for this? Why would someone use their 52" TV for twitter or Facebook when they have a tablet or laptop already?

It doesn't, but why bother at all? Run the fiber to my house so I can hook it to my wireless router? Why not just stick with wireless to begin with? 4G is 100mbps, already faster than the 802.11g most people are using with their wifi router, why would anyone waste billions on fiber when they can just offer 4G? And 10 yrs from now we'll probably all have 5G or 6G, just five years ago in 2007 4G didn't even exist and now we all have 4G cellphones. Landlines are dead, stick with wireless.

Problem is the grandparents are not responsible. Soon as that child becomes a parent our welfare system kicks in and they're eligible for free cellphone, free money, free health insurance, free food and free housing forever. They can get a free house and move anyone they want into the house, even rent out rooms in the house to make extra income, or move in a new boyfriend that is working, and new boyfriend now has a free house and free food. But they can never marry, because once they do they'll lose benefits, they must remain a single mother forever. I know someone that did exactly that, she had a bachelors degree but refused to work because she was receiving more $ from the govt then what she could earn, but she could not marry the guy even though he was the father of 2 of her kids.

Why? Why fix their mistake? They were paid for it and decided not to do it. That's a poor excuse too "if we don't do out jobs right you should do our jobs for us!" Like a child throwing a temper tantrum, breaking dishes on purpose to get out of washing dishes.

If you don't want to do the job then don't, someone else will do the research and get the credit, but doing a job half-assed and bitching that it's google and apple's fault their website wasn't setup right is asinine

"I don't get paid enough to do the job right" is the worse excuse ever

If you can't do the job I'm sure there's a programmer in India that would be happy to do your job for less pay

Outsourcing sucks, but it's your attitude that has made it so popular

Correct, I'm flaming the developers for being so short sighted and naive

considering the iPhone 5 has a gigabyte of ram and the equivalent processing power of a 3ghz p4 I'm sure it'll be fine, people forget how powerful this little phones are

Apple took the smart approach and stuck with excellent software and hardware. Apple invented the modern smartphone and tablet market. Apple will sit back and watch everyone else destroy themselves while apple continues to integrate with whatever new service allows it. Google, Amazon or Facebook or all of them will eventually self implode, will Apple sits back and says WTF?

Smart move Apple, giving people what they want, instead of stuffing your own services down their face.

I tried to look at the map but it said android and ios is not supported? Ummm... I don't think these guys are very bright if they're creating new web content that doesn't support 500+ million devices out there, and putting a message asking users to ask Google and Apple to support some obscure webgl thing furthers my belief that these guys are morons. There's tons of options that work great on Google and Apple, there's no reason to create new content that you know doesn't support it and then tell users it's their fault. It's like creating new highways that are only 3 feet wide and posting signs saying please ask car manufactures to make smaller cars.

I play video games. Now I eat flowers and throw fireballs.