Thank you. I thought I was alone in thinking that the world had gone absolutely crazy with the amount of messaging services out there.

Thank you, now I know to never buy absolutely anything from this company and never recommend it to anyone, as a matter of fact warning people about buying anything from them would be the responsible thing to do.

There are a couple of insightful posts by a Google engineer addressing this specific myth. The original reddit comment, where your comment originally came from, generated a very interesting discussion on the subject over at G+.

Agreed. My left eye twitches if I don't balance parenthesis properly.. in code or written language.

Actually, one of the listed items is the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI):

...a small camera located on Curiosity's main body, will record video of the rover's descent to the Martian surface (which will be accomplished with the help of a hovering, rocket-powered sky crane)

It very likely won't be a live HD youtube stream of the entire landing but it should allow us to see part of the landing process.

"the manufacturers do not upgrade the phones"

Stop buying non "Google experience" phones. I've stuck with the Nexus series ever since the HTC fiasco in Canada with the OS upgrades. Couldn't be happier.

So .. in the last few days we've had Tornados, Earthquakes and now a Hurricane? Someone is pissed at us.

The community design document can be found here. They're effectively preventing anyone from creating a mobile computer device that is rectangular in shape with round corners. Unbelievable.

Went to a talk on this at IO this year, here is Google's take on it.

And you opted-in for it to do so.

Worth mentioning in Android's case is only used for caching so the data gets overwritten every so often. Unlike iPhone's

Here is a post on Waton's wagering by IBM Research.

How is this only an Android problem? The summary clearly states it relates to both Android and iPhone apps. Should the title have a brand modifier based on the number of times said brand appears in the summary? Ridiculous.