He generally gets first post on every Android and Apple articles out there. A lot of people reply to him.

I'm just explaining how I made the connection between you and the anonymous posts. The posts even have the same style of newlines without line spacing, and the same use of commas to separate sentences, which you do in this very post.

Coming from an Apple fanboi, that's nice keep telling yourself that.

You're the one using embarrassing words like "fanboi". You're proving my case that Android fanboys are completely crazy. You're emotional over a smartphone OS and anonymously trolling people over it. It's pathetic.

Obviously if I'm accused of being someone else, I'm going to look at their account. I don't know the proper name for Asperger disorder, so I wrote it how I saw others spell it, and I find the term "neckbeard" hilarious and will probably use it more often. I've been accused of being so many people over the years that I've lost track.

Well, according to your profile, you have a history of angrily accusing people of being shills and astroturfers (in fact, it seems to be your favorite topic), so I guess I'm joining the elite ranks of the accused.

Wow, Galestar, not only do you anonymously troll every post even remotely critical of Google, but then you use your main account to mod yourself Underrated. Speaking of shills.

I don't think antitrust regulators are doing much with anybody right now. Google just didn't want to lose eyeballs to Bing.

Really?

No, it's not. The Apple artwork was used in a Centro Sicilia store in Catania, Italy. Samsung scrambled to replace the artwork after it was pointed out.

I was on the "recent" page. He(you?) submits a lot of articles.

Your post history shows that you've been replying to him. Looking at his other posts, there are anonymous replies to them with the same writing style as you. I think we know what you do. I guess you're going to do the same to me based on your reply to my first post. I'll even act the part for ya.

I happen to like Microsoft/Windows. You must have a reading comprehension problem.

How could I have thought otherwise after such rejected gems as "Microsoft spreads FUD about Android" or "Android tops everyone in 2010 market share; 2011 m".

Android fanboys really are more annoying than Apple fanboys. You people are nuts.

Hi, Galestar! I'm enjoying them immensely. No matter how many downmods I get, my karma somehow goes back up to excellent. Could be all the +5 comments. Did you know my posts receive the most moderations on Slashdot?

Hi, this is Overly Critical Guy. You may remember me as the person you recently accused of being a shill for bonch in one of your replies to my first post. Now I see that you're even stalking bonch's submissions. Your post here is ironic considering how your submissions are pro-Android, anti-Microsoft propaganda mixed with typo-ridden junk. Like most Android fanbois, you are an antisocial neckbeard with Aspergers Syndrome who can't use proper capitalization and punctuation, and you endlessly shill for a global advertising megacorporation that doesn't care about your privacy. You are clearly a sufferer of Early Onset Crotchety Syndrome, which causes you to hate things that are popular or different, such as the iPhone. Or perhaps you're just frustrated that after five years, Android still can't scroll smoothly. Whatever the case, I wish you the best and hope that you get the help you need. Farewell, Galestar.

Actually, it's a huge tired talking point for the anti-Android contingent. Ask Stacy Valley-girl how much Android "fragmentation" effects her life and she will look at you like you've grown another neck. Why? Because she as well as 95 percent of Android users either don't freaking care or they don't want upgrades.

She'll care when she sees that her friends have iPhones that can do things that the version of Android on her phone can't do, or when she can't run an app that needs so-and-so version (and possibly so-and-so hardware feature). You're acting as if fragmentation isn't already an issue for both developers and users. The iPhone tops Android smartphones in every customer satisfaction survey. Seamless experiences always win out in the end.

Why should they go to sleep with one version and then wake up with something completely different? They are getting to understand their phone and actually feeling kind of cool and you want to pull the rug from beneath them? Why? So the less than 5 percent of nerds that care will stop whining? NEWS FLASH: Normal users don't care and normal users are who buy all the phones.

I'm sorry, but this is dumb. You're making an argument against operating systems upgrades. Android 4.0 is supposed to deliver major performance enhancements and features that improve the performance of the devices it runs on. But heaven forbid we "pull the rug from beneath them" when they're "actually feeling kind of cool."

It's bizarre for anyone to accuse Apple of deprecating perfectly working hardware/software (note that you don't give a single example) when there are about 150 Android handset models released per year, and phones that are only months old and won't get Android 4.0. Meanwhile the 2 1/2 year old iPhone 3GS can run iOS 4.0, yet you're accusing Apple of the worst planned obsolescence? So what if iOS 4.0 doesn't perform as well on the 3GS--it still runs on it if the customer chooses to install it. The carriers' business model is dependent on new phone models, so they don't want you to get upgrades.

Citing Cyanogen as a legitimate solution is absurd. Normal people shouldn't have to root their phones. Also, I don't care who you think I am or if you don't like to see Google get bashed. What does Google have to do with this?

It's possible but unlikely. The Android phone business model guarantees that updates will be a mess. Putting Android updates on older phones decreases the likelihood that people will buy new phones, and it costs them support and engineering to put out an update.

Carriers don't want you to buy a new phone; they want you to pay a monthly bill. Android gives the carriers control over your phone. This is part of the problem with the argument that Android is about freedom and choice. For contrast, note that the 2 1/2 year old iPhone 3GS can run the latest version of iOS because Apple maintains strict control over the hardware platform to the benefit of the customer, and Microsoft has similar control over Windows Phones to align third-party devices with an OS roadmap.

Android has greater total marketshare due to an abundance of budget phones, but marketshare isn't what drives business; it's profits and customer satisfaction, and the iPhone is the top-selling handset because of the control Apple enforces on its platform as well as the one making the most profit. The narrative is not Android versus Apple, as if Android is some big company--it's Apple versus Samsung versus HTC versus Motorola versus Acer versus Asus verus Coby versus Coby vs. Sony-Ericsson versus Fusion Garage versus RIM versus HP versus Archos.

Seamless experiences always win out over time. We saw it when gaming shifted from PCs to consoles, and now the industry is shifting from desktops to mobile devices. Fragmentation is a huge for users.

P.S. Android phones used to look like this. After the iPhone, they coincidentally and miraculously all adopted the exact same shiny black front and chrome frame. Funny how that works, huh?

Do you have any evidence to back that up? Remember that this all started when Apple decided that it owned the smartphone concept and the related rounded rectangle shape.

That's a complete straw man and typical rhetoric from pro-Google Slashdot. Apple didn't sue over a "rounded rectangle shape" or "the smartphone concept."

You do realize how ridiculous you sound, right? Apple had the option of paying for those licenses at the time, making Motorola and Google to be the bad guys in all of this because they've refused to completely lie down to some rather ridiculous patent abuse suits is pretty pathetic.

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? "Apple had the option of paying another company for patent licenses! How dare you make them out to be bad guys abusing the system!"

The hope was that Google buying Motorola would create enough balance between the portfolio's of Google, MS, and Apple that it would be in all of their interests to return to some form of truce.

The defensive patents argument was only a "hope" on pro-Google Slashdot; everyone else in the world knew that Google was just after patents like everyone else, and that was proven correct when Google-owned Motorola won a preliminary injunction to block sales of iPhones and iPads in Germany.