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What? Angry Birds doesn't have esoteric, non-intuitive gestures. You drag the bird in a slingshot and let go. Tiny Wings only tells you to touch the screen, which is the kind of no…

You're portraying an alternate reality in which Android tablets were a smashing success, and everyone is using a stylus. This is clearly not the case, and the iPad mini is going to…

Android tablets haven't been very successful. Android fans may not like it, but the public loves the iPad, so the iPad mini becomes a disruptive product. It's the smaller tablet th…

Not at all. He thinks his personal barometer of what makes a post "useful" is an absolute that everyone else must adhere to. Nothing in the post he's reacting to was agenda-driven …

Some things are impossible to have domain knowledge for, because they aren't actually saying anything. They only exist to sound smart. Case in point, this gem from post-modernist J…

The law says corporations are people; it's called corporate personhood. It doesn't apply in all cases, but it does confer to them many rights that an individual is considered to ha…

You can tell he's right because he uses the word "fuck" a lot.

Good for him. Notch has earned a well-deserved break. If you've followed Minecraft development for any period of time, you'd know he takes breaks quite often, much to the amusing f…

His work ethic is something to admire That's a pretty amusing statement because Notch is infamous for taking vacations often and quickly losing interest in a feature before moving …

I hope entrepreneurs don't start confusing accountability with narcissism because of Steve Jobs. You don't have to be a rude, difficult, bully to get things right. Not only would S…

Steve Jobs wasn't the designer of the iPhone. Other people made it while he cracked the whip. For some reason, a lot of the press is giving him credit for everything at Apple in sp…

You may dislike the verbosity, but it's hardly "completely unnecessary." A typical Objective-C program is inherently self-documenting. It's nice knowing what a group of arguments i…

Well, the beard, and other quirks, sort of symbolize how socially off and out-of-touch with normal people Stallman and others like him actually are. It doesn't automatically refute…

Equating the iPhone to a "jail" is goofy political hyperbole. Normal people don't even view software in that context. It's just a piece of hardware and software they choose to use …

The mobile world is still in its infancy, regardless of how many years ago Microsoft was working on it. No offense, but you come off as far too emotional to take seriously in a dis…

You're being down voted because you missed the point. Google's lawyer was claiming that Microsoft was banding together with rivals to damage them, but Microsoft has revealed that t…

It's like when Google calls Android "open" but then withholds the source from non-privileged partners.

Complaining about huge bids that are more than what these bogus patents are worth is pretty hypocritical if you yourself bid over $3 billion for them. I think Google is whining bec…

God, I can't wait for this era of wannabe yuppies to end, yuppies reading about launching startups and talking about startups and thinking about everything in terms of startups. It…

Google owns YouTube. YouTube isn't "embracing" it; Google is adding the feature to YouTube.

If that's all you get out of it, then you're intentionally ignoring the years of talk about "openness" from Google and its criticism of competitors who don't adopt open standards.

Maybe because Google constantly markets itself on its use of open standards.

Yes, we know. That's the point. They shouldn't have because there was no reason to.

Oh, okay, so that makes it okay for the site to be Chrome-only despite Google's constant proselytizing over "openness."

You only think it's "useless" because it bashes Google, obviously a company you like. You ask what Google's incentive is to build the site if they can't make people download Chrome…