Early? When? A week earlier? A month? We had two months since the first alert of outbreak. Don't blame others for our incompetence, China (and many other Asian countries) did a better job to control this pandemic than Europe and the Americas.

1) Last I heard the iphone8's battery life is 24 hours with average use; my motoX play (a mid range phone from 2015) has the same battery life, and I use my phone all day, even to listen music with its speaker for hours (no extra recharging), and a 1080p screen, sometimes I even forget to charge it. 2) Dalvik was used by default until android 5, now the jit-compiler is called ART (we are in android 8). It's obvious that a scripting language like java will have a poorer average performance compared to a compiled language like Swift (or Objective-C previously), even in ideal conditions, however iphones are not even 2x faster than android counterparts... so kudos android developers. 3) iOS is based in BSD... so your expectations are accomplished. I dislike android, especially for what has become, but i dislike more the apple walled garden. This is my personal opinion.

This is the most stupid feature that i ever heard of. Seriously, I've always thought that the car noises were unavoidable, but this gives me the impression that the car manufacturers see us like a Jersey Shore morons.

It is worth notice that Farcas (the politician that was lobbied by microsoft) was implicated in a bribery case, called "las becas Valech", or something like that, he contracted the person who was the former government university inspector that approved his private university (UNIACC). Microsoft sought and found the right one to push in this case, he even voted yes to the proposition of Mirosevic, then the day after he told something like "we snatched it from you buddy" (laughing).

"Microsoft announced last year that it was moving its German headquarters to Munich. This move is planned to take place in 2016. While Reiter was involved in the deal that precipitated the move and describes himself as a "Microsoft fan," he says the criticism of LiMux is unrelated." http://arstechnica.com/busines... One polititian making convenient claims?... microsoft intervention?... hard to tell from where this is coming. (This looks like nokia's disaster)

Sorry, i don't want to be pedantic on this but really upsets me when people say "Americans", it's wrong in so many ways that worries me a lot for the kind of education that US kids have. For example, it would be awful if you refer to a french and a portuguese in this way: "Portuguese kids and Elderly Europeans". As far as i know, Brazil is still an American country.