Hum, I believe that Apple is a gatekeeper because of the money it bring them ! Being the only offical entry point for iOS application with an undersized staff for approval, Apple is seriously milking the cow here.

I am pretty sure that my mom is ready to do that, and especially like the part where she can't seem to keep her bookmak

that's no good using microsoft product for the security record, well thank you. You just gave me the argument I need to switch my parents, buddies, girlfriend to linux.

That the whole windows problem, because most of the OS is solid but rely on somewhat sloppy driver (most of high end user usually install beta quality video driver because they expec a 5% perf gain). Apple customers welcome to the pain microsoft has been suffering for decade. Oh and the blue screen is a feature too :).

we all remember the 3dmark fiasco with some graphic card constructor did some fiddling to alter their score. what about javascript engine, or rendering engine ? of course people in the industry have been known for their fairness and good practice ( especially whose with closed code ). Again it's a matter of personnal taste, chrome beta can be extended with some pain, but is fast and could restore most of its memory thank to the whole process separation. safari is mostly for mac user and eye candy lover, but fast. opera have very little extension means, is fast enough, and got a lot of feature which cause it to vomit option dialog on your screen firefox extension make make it grind to a stop but are legions, and make your own browsing experience. still my choices are opera and firefox.

mandatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/538/

well technically it's not a virus, it doesn't spread like a virus, only via social engineering (the virus spreader posted the malware on a torrent). And even the impact of it is not a virus as we know it. Yet it is a malware and shouldn't be taken ligthly by Mac user.

I think they just patented computer trojan or worm (on windows of course )

I'll choose number 5 and still think that MS best OS is still w2k (as a dev point of view, I admit it sucked for multimedia creation ).

even better install Bonzi Buddy on your servers, and better yet discard your firewall, they are for pussies anyway. And who the need those lunix servers, windows 95 "should be enough for everyone"

Sure dev are able to cram more crap into spare cpu cycle. But looking at the trends now, single core is mostly the way to go with light OSes and optimized software ( netbook ) for the end user, as for more niche market that find a use in high performance computing (slashdot reader, scentist) I'm pretty sure that multiprocessor is a better way to go rather than multicore ( wich is a way to do cheap multiprocessor design anyway ). Anyway OSes HAL have been ready for a long time for SMP, but multicore broke the abstraction of SMP because of the shared resource on the die between the core. Anyway again the processor vendors create an offer, by putting faster processor, and software vendor put the needs by creating bloated software.

still too complicated. maybe a more simple one should do the trick.

we still have the choice of staying with windows and not upgrading at all. XP and 2000 seems to remain windows OS of choice. Seems that vista was the windows ME based on NT and windows 7 joyfully stay on the same path.