Nokia's Linux-based phone was "flying off the shelves" (I honestly hate that term) to pimply smartphone enthusiasts, in limited production quantities compared to the rest of their line. Not to mainstream consumers.

I'm not saying it was a bad phone, from everything I heard it was pretty good, but it wasn't some guaranteed "hit" in the waiting.

Going with Windows Phone turned out to be a bad choice, but the other choices they could have gone with may have also turned out to be bad. It could very well have been a no-win situation. They just went the most controversial route.

Meh. We don't even call them PCs anymore. They're desktops or laptops, Mac or Windows.

Personally, I was thrilled to get rid of the glossy bullshit.

A "lickable" OS was great to differentiate OS X and show off new technologies, but after a while it just looked tacky.

I know, right?

Why buy a greasy, flattened McDonalds burger when you can get a burger from {insert quality regional burger chain} for only 3x the price?

Its just ground beef and a bun, after all.

If you make websites, then I assume it would be trivial for you to have a custom domain from which you could make unlimited disposable email addresses?

The only point I see this changing is if someone discovers a horrible, easy-to-abuse exploit in older versions of Android, and releases the mother of all DDoS attacks on the cellular network, prompting quick security updates.

Aside from something like that happening, I don't see the update problem going away.

My daughter's second gen Moto G is on 4.4.

Apparently an update to 5.0.1 was released for it this past weekend, but that's still really pathetic for a phone from 2014.

"If it were not for Microsoft everything would be like Linux is what you meant to say."

If it weren't for Bill Gates, some other entrepreneurial weasel would have taken his place.

The free software types rarely knew how, had the resources, or even wanted to bring their technology to the wider world.

How old is her MP3 player? I would assume it supports AAC (which is iTunes' .m4a format), unless it's ancient or was very cheap.

The people who faithfully buy "Pentium" are like the people who faithfully bought "Oldsmobile".

I just don't have the time to tune into most scheduled broadcasts. Especially since I have a family, and there's one TV with a cable box in the house.

I can get by with Hulu, Netflix, and the occasional download.

If it's classified as "he period when human activities started having a significant impact on Earth", then wouldn't the industrial revolution mark the start of that?

Or were coal-powered factories all over Europe belching horrible soot and smoke into the atmosphere not good enough?

It's better they try and fail than not try at all.

Just ask Nortel.

If they're serious about it, and properly examine the assets and tech they already have, I'm sure they can find something they're good at.

Quebec is a weird case.

KFC is KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) in France.

KFC is PFK (Poulet Frite Kentucky) in Quebec.

Because laws.

The difference between this and Google Docs is that it's baked right into the OS, and has hooks for third parties to implement it in their applications.

So that is some sort of standardization. At least, on Apple devices.