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and their awesome theme engine. it brings a breath of fresh air to the interface. Of course, 99% of the themes found on xda are utter garbage but a few of them are extremely well designed.

Is this the article you are talking about? : http://www.economist.com/node/15816702

I need to ask, what HN app are you using?

That's was quite surreal to read. Thanks for taking your time to share such a nerve-rattling history of advancements in science and technology. I will probably print it out and frame it on my wall and remind myself that we are already living in the future even though much remains to be seen and accomplished.

Also, is your perspective in this topic synonymous with the law of accelerating change? http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns

Being unethical or not is based on moral values and Apple did breach the moral code of conduct in their recent lawsuits by acting vigorously bullish but they did nothing wrong(at least not legally). But what James Hardie did was borderline illegal so they are two different things.

You are right though. Even though Touchwiz was an abomination compared to the smooth and slick iOS, Samsung's Galaxy S phone was a step ahead in every direction compared to the iPhone. At the time, it was the thinnest, lightest and the most powerful phone. Not the mention, the gorgeous display it had. Samsung innovated on every platform except the homescreen UI (sadly, many people don't see this).

But above all, their marketing and advertising strategy was unparalleled. I saw a Galaxy ad literally on every road, every TV show, every soccer match and what not! The success was not surprising given how much they effort they put.

Apart from the original Galaxy S, no other Samsung phone is even remotely close looking as the iPhone. Perhaps the Galaxy tab could also make it to this list but the innovation margin in the tablet design space is very little(They did alter the design later however)

How is he misrepresenting Steve Jobs's statement? Isn't it what he meant. Of course, he didn't mean to say that he is proud of copying others' ideas but that copying is inevitable. Or am I misinterpreting his statement?

ever since I saw his video on the hen head stabilization technique, I've been an ardent follower of his videos. They are very informative..

"It could kill off Android completely in the US and not anywhere else."

Granted, the US is a major market for Android but these patent disputes will get laughed at in the UK courts and others as we have seen so far.

From one of the comments :

"there will be no legacy Windows applications retrocompatibilty"

Is this true? If it is, then this is a deal breaker. The only reason I've been waiting so long to buy a Windows tablet is because I assumed it would be backwards compatible with my desktop applications(of my Win7 machine). If what the comment above says is true, then I guess it will be either an Android tablet or the iPad..

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”

- Calvin & Hobbes

I wonder... if almost everyone knows and complains about the smoothness in Android being not as good as iOS(consistently, I mean)... Isn't Google aware of this? Or does achieving impeccable smoothness come at a cost(increased memory usage?).. which means that Google are in the crossroads here, trying to balance fluid UX and efficient memory management?

Or is it because Apple and Microsoft have been leaders in software engineering for more than a couple of decades and may have mastered the ins and outs of Operating Systems.. and since it has been only 5-6 years that Google has been working on Android, are they still competitively behind Apple and MS in this regard? and so that we can hope for improvement?

Nikola Tesla is a true genius. We take many of his inventions and contributions to the world of engineering for granted. His works continue to astound us even today...

Edison, on the other hand was always a scumbag.. More of a marketeer than a scientist..

Screen size is a matter of personal preference. Few people like yourself fancy small screen sizes like that of the iPhone.. but for me, 4" screens have proven ideal and ergonomically the best of the many. Having different screen sizes is good because it offers the consumer the choice of choosing what he/she might feel best..

Having said that, I do agree with you on the GNexus screen size. 4.65" seems a little over the top..