In most places, a warranty replacement resets the warranty period to day zero. That's definitely the case in Argentina: if my 2-year-old drive fails, I get a replacement, and the 5-year warranty starts counting again from the day I got the replacement one.

Wrong, he made the company, but then went public; which means he essentially sold it (or parts of it). So now the shareholers (ie: owners) get to vote what happens with it.

If you want to replace an N900, then Jolla's device is the way to go; it's a direct successor of the N9, which is a successor of the N900.
Also, Jolla's doesn't have Aegis or anything alike, unlike the N9, but much like the N900.

Not really. You just mirror every day's copy, the server handles the deduplication and backing up yesterday's data before you replace it.

You can mirror today's files while not altering yesterdays. You can also use hardlinks to keep the directory tree for each day intact. rsync has an argument for this.

There are other issues with it being propietary. It might not call home and be INTENTIONALLY insecure, but it may be UNINTENTIONALLY insecure. There's no room for peer review, since it's completely closed.

Relying on a propietary tool for backups is an awful idea - you can't be sure you can trust it, or that you will be able to restore this backups.

The lack of portability is a shame though, I wonder why screen-sharing is usually windows-only.

The website says "only supported on chrome". Nice way to use web standards, recommend a single browser, instead of sniffing capabilities.

I'd mod this funny if I had points!

I'm looking for something similar, but the lack of portability is a killer for me.

That's quite right. So this patent is quite useless against Android, because Android is covered by the patent that say "... on a mobile device".

Looks like an attack against google itself; not Android.

Or something way more mainstream: GAMING! I can sure as hell tell the difference between a 2013 and a 2011 video card with a very graphic-intensive computer game. I guess this article's author forgot that facebook and email isn't a computer's only use.

Yes they do, they support IMAP IDLE perfectly fine. Some of the references to this are 6 years old. IDLE is about 16yo, and supported by most email clients.