It's true. Most people don't care about the OS. They're buying a tablet for internet and games.

Still, even for those of us that do care, I'd happily buy a competitively priced tablet from Microsoft if it ran whatever Windows software I wanted -- and had a real stylus.

If they can get something like the Surface Pro 2 down to around $300-$400, which is really only a matter of time, I don't see why they couldn't grab a good share. Add a few other players with their own hardware and I can see Microsoft really taking over the tablet market.

That would be fantastic, but it seems pretty unrealistic at this point.

Oh, HP ... Why do you get all your CEO's from the Smile Time employment center for special needs adults?

Or you could just look at the smudges on the screen. Google will tell you all about that.

Exactly, most of us figured out years ago that the NWO shadow government are mere puppets controlled by the lizard men in the hollow earth. That's who they, and Apple, really fear.

They're the reason that TouchID was hacked so easily. The version Apple though they were manufacturing was secretly replaced while in transit. They're all a bunch of Android fanboys, after all.

Conspiracy time. Okay.

So ... what would convince you? A few independent reproductions? Those could be faked the same way!

Apple admitting that the hack works? Just PR to save face / get people to stop talking about it. It's really super secure like they said earlier!

Trying the hack yourself? Perhaps you're in on the conspiracy as well -- and you don't even know it!

That's "latex milk", which is not the same as milk and latex.

The article also suggests that they used white wood glue, which people are more likely to have around the house. (Adding a bit of glycerin to the glue seems to be an optional step.)

Haha!

No.

Tell that to Apple...

My first BB was a 7290, my current phone is a Z10. (While I'm a long-time user, I'm no die-hard, I'll happily give up my BB if something better comes along.) My wife and a few of my friends are Android fans and I've done some Android development. I'd like to think that I have a reasonable, if admittedly limited, familiarity with Android.

You're not very familiar with BlackBerry are you? From their gesture suite to their approach to multitasking, BB10 is about as close to Android as Android is to Windows 3.1. Given your list of similarities, you might as well claim that my car is just like a bicycle because the wheels on both are round. Or, for a better analogy, that Ubuntu Linux, Windows, and MacOS are all identical because the close icon is a little 'X' along with a host of other similar icons 'copied' from Windows 95.

They're rather dramatically different. I honestly don't see how you can claim that they're similar at all.

You couldn't possibly be more wrong. If they stole from anyone, it would be Palm. I've see many, and even made my own, comparisons to WebOS as far back as PlayBook OS. You'd be the first I've seen suggest that BB10 is anything like Android. Probably because BB10 is absolutely nothing like Android.

Have you even used PBOS or BB10?

Wait, so you're saying that Nokia purposefully tanked itself by hiring Elop and switching to WP8 so that Microsoft could cheaply and easily take them over? That doesn't make any sense.

See my earlier post. The only company that benefited from Android was Samsung, and there's absolutely no reason to believe that it was the OS that made them successful.

Android isn't that great, and it's one of the worst mobile platforms for developers -- even BlackBerry has them beat there. (I know the meme, but a lot has changed over the past few years.)

Android is on top because it's inexpensive and open. As I said before, they will fall very quickly the instant an equally inexpensive and open platform shows up that has a better UI and/or is easier to developers.

BlackBerry is having trouble because of the 'they're dying' meme, which is only true now because everyone believed it when it wasn't true. The hardware is solid, as is the OS and UI. Those all got high-praise from even their worse detractors (like BGR). Their weak app market and the unfounded belief that they could go under at any moment were their biggest problems.

Nokia was, and still is, horribly mismanaged. Do you actually think switching to Android would have magically saved them? It sure hasn't helped Samsung's competitors!

The Firefox phone didn't fail because of the OS, it failed because it was pitifully outdated at "launch" and sold (exclusively?) through eBay. Then again, it may be too early to say that it failed. It's difficult to say that it's even hit the market! It's more like a 'sneak peak'. It also doesn't help that it got more than it's fair share of doom-and-gloom press months ahead of their "launch". I don't know enough about it to meaningfully compare it to Android (either on technical or UI grounds). I'd leave that up to you, but ... well, see above.

I agree. I may have misread the parent, and I can see now that my post was a bit ambiguous.

Yes, yes I do.

So does just about everyone else.

Why is this so damn difficult for people to understand?

Both of you, stop it!

Tell that to HTC, Motorola, LG, ...

Wow, not even a little bit. The two are dramatically different in just about every respect.

Ignoring the "unparalleled" hyperbole, for the moment, do you honestly think they'd have done better had Elop gone with Android? Nokia had made a lot of strategic mistakes long before Microsoft came calling. Do you think Elop's infamous restructuring was "just because"? It was, at the time, a necessary effort to save the ailing company.

To suggest that had they just switched to Android they'd be fine is laughably naive.

Cool, can you help me out? I'm having an awful time understanding color. What's it like to experience that?

Total Nonsense.

Hell, dreams haven't been demonstrated empirically.

Don't they teach you kids anything about epistemology these days?

Is there any reason that you haven't listed any of your alleged "failures". (I suspect it's because you don't actually have any in mind and you're just repeating a silly meme.)

As for Tizen, we'll see if that's the case when it's actually released. :) My claim "the best browser on the market" remains true.

Now, your claim was that the BB10 browser "was not great" and that you "prefer firefox on android".

Do you still stand by that?