Well, that's the method of testing (using water jets) for IPx9 rating, but practically, it just means you can go diving or swim deep without worrying about your watch.

You can swim (not scuba dive) with it, and the battery lasts more than 3 days. Various notification features are the most useful for me, and the ability to create my own watchface without much difficulty (I'm a programmer). I'd take Moto 360, LG G Watch R, and even Apple Watch more seriously if they could beat the battery life of Pebble, and get at least IP69 rating.

They would effectively kill their lucrative IP clauses in their CAFTA, NAFTA, FAFTA, WAFTA, AAFTA, BAFTA, DAFTA agreements.

...making the open source landscape inferior by doing a piss poor job of merely maintaining java code and its community.

Where else would you find people deeply committed as people in free software community? I think this type of tribalism comes with territory, and one of consequential driving forces behind free software movement. We are talking about at least the sweat equity, and the investment of identity -- which are both valuable human assets. Just look at small, infrequent punches that Linux throws at others. We forgive him because he's been a part of significant history, but it becomes harder and louder as you deal with those who may not be as talented or fortunate.

especially if you're sitting on a rotating chair while holding it right in front of your face all day in a sound chamber.... poor guy.

It's just a nod to the attribute it blatantly discloses by being merely territorial, which is common characteristic of large corporations turning lackadaisical on creativity. This has been somewhat of a common, historical trend since mid 1800s, so I don't know where you're spotting ignorance. If you're nitpicking about G's contribution to mobile OS platform and whatnot, then I have nothing to argue with you.

Steve wants something, AT&T makes a quick response. Something bad happens, AT&T makes a quick reaction. Anything good happens, AT&T makes a claim.

It may be a hasty call, but it almost sounds like a complaint of someone starting to go down on a slope at the late maturation stage of one of our titans.

I think you'd get a fresh perspective on how little time that was compare to the amount of time young minds are spending on online FPS/RPG/MMORG games across the world. I once tried to tabulate it only for Counter Strike 'bout a decade ago or so, and I was simply blown away by the "mind-waste" that was going on, I'm sure it's even bigger now.

ditto. I've initiated my own two cents of effort... starting with OpenID, but then it almost feels like reinventing wheels when Google APIs offer so much through the cloud.. (slap myself on the face: SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!) wake up! This is a war. Yes, independent P2P independent, but social websites across the web. The new generation of social web will once again be decentralized, but then you still need a control server, and once again you have a cloud... no, no, no... yes, yes, yes... sorry, folks for a tidbit of stream of consciousness on this comment... it's indeed an arduous task to yourself rational while trying to stay up nights to create an independent/social website that can be easily packaged for average users...