Seen both flavours of web frameworks. For comprehensibility to on-board new devs to unfamiliar code, I'd go with something like ExpressJS any day. This is from comparisons with Java and PHP web frameworks I've encountered on projects. Suspect that many who pontificate haven't actually used this stuff for real, as the lack of a type system has had F all impact for me when working on real NodeJS projects.

My place has switched from "open plan" to "open plan with hotdesking".
A cube?
The same cube every day, where you can leave stuff?
I'd take that!

Those greenhorn fools should have realized that Due Diligence means running the acquisition past some AC on a message board.

Those two are not technically software companies.

Apple is a hardware company that makes great software.

Google is an advertising company that makes great software.

Microsoft is a software company that makes shabby software.

If it wasn't for that "low budget shit", you would still have a half-assed notification system. Stop pretending it isn't a two way street. Competition pressures the vendors and benefits the consumers. This is great for everyone, except dumbass fanbois.

Thanks.... interesting link. I had a few pairs of ER4P's. Fantastic sound, but I found the build quality was no match for my daily use (wire would eventually fracture - mono no fun). I got sick of replacing them at such high cost, and found that Klipsch X1's gave me 60-70% of the fidelity at a fraction of the cost... so no biggie getting replacements from Amazon if something broke.

'Consider the Kindle Fire example: Just like Amazon picked the Android lock, Samsung could grab the Android Open Source code and create its own unlicensed but fully legal smartphone OS and still benefit from a portion of Android apps, or it could build its own app store the way Amazon did,'

I wouldn't call forking an Open Source project "picking the lock".

The Kindle Fire has no camera, GPS, or core Google apps (Maps, Gmail, Talk, Voice, Google+, etc)

Samsung's success has been through shipping flagship devices, not crippled ones at rock bottom prices.

No, you'd have 15 minutes to take a sip and decide whether you want an unconditional refund for the coffee.

Uh, I think you mean 'aides'.

Absolutely.
Just looked at the Motorola site. They have 24,500 patents granted and pending in 2G, 3G, 4G, H.264, MPEG-4, 802.11, NFC.

With the codec ones, there could be some benefit for WebM too....

These comparisons might be of interest...

It's worth noting that companies like VMware are working on virtualization technology for Android. This would allow handsets to switch between work and home OS images, allowing consumer handsets to be used during work time as secure corporate handsets.

It's possible this could become attractive to the enterprise... no BES, and you can repurpose equipment the employee already owns.

Absolutely...
I think the whole article is a shallow attempt to differentiate Motorola amongst Android vendors.
Motoblur is great because it can show you what's using the battery?
So can Menu/Settings/Applications/Battery use.

I'd agree with the point several on this thread have made.
It's better to naturally downvote the apps that don't follow best practice, rather than ask Google to be a super-draconian gatekeeper. Some of us avoid Apple products for a reason!

Perhaps even simpler than that...

I'm amazed the carriers haven't come in for any criticism. Voicemail accounts could be accessed from any phone by entering a PIN - and they were mostly preset to a default, such as '1111' or '1234'. In these cases, you just needed the phone number of the celebrity. Call the remote voicemail service, enter the PIN, and you'd be in.

I remember working for a cellphone reseller in 1997, and being surprised by this. The company leased handsets to the stars of certain soap operas, and the customer care peeps were listening to voicemails down the pub of an evening.