More importantly, the different Sony divisions (Movies, laptop, portable, camera etc) are really distinct and different business entities. That's how the rootkit got to be implemented in the first place: not much from-the-top controll.

So, yeah, screw the laptop division, but their phones and tablets are great and supporting them might mean more from that division get promoted up and bring along their values to the whole.

Whilst I do agree with the Sony hate due to the rootkits and erstwhile proprietary storage media ... that is their laptop and storage division. Their phones and tablets are top-quality (after you uninstall the bloatware).

The hardware is topnotch: the z4 tablet? Wow. It weighs something like a thin square of plywood, yet feels sturdy. The one and only problem I have with it is that it feels so light that I want to break it over my knee, just to see what it would feel like :-) I'm not a violent person: you'll understand what I mean as soon as you hold one of these light wonders in your hands.

Sure, mate.

First of all, the iphone 4s (released quite late 2011, by the way) is very slow, to the point of unusability, especially if you upgraded to ios8. We support it because we must. However a measly cheapass Samsung SIII mini, released around the same time can be trivially (yeah, even for non-technical users) be upgraded to the latest android version on Cyonagen and runs surprisingly smoothly.

With minimal effort (yeah, yeah, 'most people can't/won't do that!' ... actually, a surprisingly large group of people do have friends who do that for them, as I can tell from the various app figures the Google Play console gives) a crap phone released at the same time runs much better than the Apple flagship.

The ipad2? What. Are. You. Smoking? That one-time flagship device is un-usable except for single tabbed webbrowsing.

Recently got an Alienware 15 with the highest specs. At first I thought the battery life was a bit crap, but that was to be expected with the highest end i7 and a gtx980m.

Put it in low battery mode and I get 9 hours of internet/office/video use.

And I get a great keyboard.

So, suck it, Lenovo, with your spyware.

Come on. I have used this exact same method on a Windows Mobile 5 device (HTC Touch HD) waaaay back when, using the accelerometer and gravity to determine how my screen was moving and moving a virtual object in virtual space and showing that on my phone's screen.

Not only that, but it's a rather OBVIOUS solution to a problem. Whatever happened to the "non-obvious" requirement?

"The UI on phones and tablets aren't designed to help us find one app among dozens"

I agreed with that. So the first app I made was AppGrouper for Windows Mobile, back then. It's a single icon on your homescreen which launches a panel with categories of your favourite apps. You can swipe between your categories (favs, communications, graphics, whatever you want to call them) and launch the app. You make your own categories and add your own selection of apps to them. It makes for very easy and quick launching of your most used apps.
It's also the first app I made for Android (look for AppGrouper by LifeBoatSoft on Google Play), and by far the most used app on my phone.

There's even a free, old version which you can find on the forums of XDA-Developers.

Clearances mean they've had a detailed file about me for decades. The price I pay for some interesting geekery.

I'm a mom. I even have eyes in the back of my head. Ask my kids.

Not only did Stallman write EMACS, but he also wrote parts of GCC, the debugger, and gmake. These are not negligible contributions.

Using whatever implement that can be found (chalk/crayon/pencil/pen/stylus/fingernail) to transfer the "jottee" onto a random bit of material found - so long as it would not be considered graffiti and it does not say something like "Payable to: ".

Island Time.

Remember, remember the fifth of November
facebook, DDOS and plot
I see no reason why Anonymous treason
Should ever be forgot

Doesn't have the same ring.