If you can tell the difference between an iPhone4S and an iPhone5 then you have one ... and by that time you have already bought it ..

What are the advantages of the iPhone5 .... I have no idea and I have seen adverts for it?

No it does not help the customer who are in the majority ...if you sell 300 items then 300 people want them it does not matter who they are where they are, it only reduces your advertising costs as you can direct your adverts to people who are already buying your product (and leave out the people who are not buying now) !

The real issue is not their competitors or even the market, but the single question "Can I run xxxx on it" the xxxx is currently a Windows application and so the only system that can answer yes is Windows ....(fill in with Exchange, Office, Outlook, etc etc ...)

Microsoft will only fade when people ask about apps that will either run on other system or will not run on Windows ...

Microsoft are trying to reinvent themselves as Apple but seem not to have notices that Apple have sewn up that position already....

This occurred in the UK, we don't have free speech enshrined in a constitution

...Old Persian, a language that has not been spoken for 2000 years ...

And ic cyðe eow, æt ic wylle beon hold hlaford and unswicende to godes gerihtum and to rihtre woroldlage...

All electronic voting machines have the issue that they are a black box where votes go in, and results come out and mysterious stuff happens between which the company who makes them tries to prove that nothing untoward can happen ...

Putting a mark on a piece of paper and counting them works, has worked for many years, is at least as secure as any voting machine, and scales to electorates much much larger then the USA ...

Apple makes money selling the device, and from each App, and from the OS, and from any content you download ....

Amazon makes money only from the content ...and they can still sell it for less ...

.NET is not a language C# is and is Java the Microsoft way
Ruby is Perl updated
ADA is what it is...

Lisp/Scheme is a good basis for a language in the same way that most systems are still actually complied in C/C++ regardless of what they are written in

Haskell - 22 years old and counting ...
Ruby - 17 years old and counting ....

Younger workers have not yet learned that long hours cause burn out that will not get them advancement, older workers have learnt that the people who do long hours are not the ones who get advancement anyway ...

Each new batch of younger workers are also the ones that make the same mistakes over and over that the older ones have learnt to avoid ...experience is useful in being efficient

An app that asks for access to your addressbook when it does need to does not get installed on Android, on Apple you install it then block it ...?

I like the take it or leave it, an app that asks too much is not installed and so cannot do anything,

on Apple you install it ban it from some things, then much much later discover what else it was doing?

Software Patents are a US idea and a US problem, Patents are government granted and so can be taken away or invalidated easily ...

Walk or drive past an office building on the public highway and you are almost certainly being filmed, the cameras are not "authorised" by anyone by the company who use the building .... no-one has democratically allowed this

Entering private land without a a lawful excuse is Trespass, someone delivering to your house, or visiting is implicitly given access

If you aren't doing anything illegal you are probably dead, you would be amazed what is illegal ....