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I wasn't comparing regular soda to diet soda, I was comparing having diet soda to not having diet soda. Diet soda affects gut flora and insulin levels. Calories are not the whole story.

That's exactly his point. The approach of merely counting calories ignores the fact that some foods such as diet soda are low in calories but can have an effect on body composition.

You shouldn't just "eat less" you should "eat better", and that means eating an appropriate amount of healthy good.

> Developers avoid Windows for far more complex, intangible reasons that go way beyond a code converter. There are all kinds of perceptions about Windows and Windows users that simply will not change because of this tool.

More developers use Windows than any other platform. Your entire comment epitomises the cultish bubble that many HN developers seem to live in, completely oblivious to the rest of the world.

Almost everyone I know that owns a Mac dual boots Windows, uses it in a VM, or doesn't use OSX at all. Macs would not have anywhere near the success they have had without Windows compatibility.

To explain further, for the downvoters, Apple is trying to position itself as "the company that safeguards your privacy (for those that can afford it)" because its their key point of differentiation with Google.

Its very unlikely that Tim Cook would make a statement like this unless it is in line with their marketing message.

> This is likely a jab at Obama

I'm pretty sure its just another indirect jab at Google.

> They're also getting beaten in the enterprise space. Most non-tech workers want everything through their phone.

No they don't. Most enterprise workers spend all day in front of a desktop Windows PC.

The discussion is not about whether Apple is a profitable company, its about whether "everyone who could afford it would buy an iPhone". There is plenty of evidence that many people prefer Android regardless of price. Whether Apple's business model is good or bad is a completely different discussion.

This is both true and completely irrelevant.

My point is that there are probably plenty of Indians who, if they had 53,000 to spend on a phone, would choose a high end Android. Some iPhone fans try to make the argument that "everyone who could afford it would buy an iPhone", and that is just not true as evidenced by the large number of high end Androids which are sold. Some people just don't like iOS.

I'm really happy about the 4 USB ports too. It was a pain having to use a USB hub on my Model B to get keyboard+mouse+WiFi.

This is just not true. Android manufacturers sell huge numbers of high end phones that cost the same amount as iPhones. I have owned both, and found the Android to be a much better user experience. iPhone has the worst keyboard I've ever used, the screen on the 5 was way too small, and I just find the whole UI to be really clunky and badly designed for the way I use devices (eg. The lack of a back button and inconsistent way apps try to deal with this limitation)

Sure, plenty of people like iPhones and plenty of people would swap, but I know a lot of people who really don't like iOS and are far happier with a high end android

Even if this has no practical reason to exist, it makes me happy to know that it does. The world is a better place for it.

Be aware that asking HN is not going to give you anything like an unbiased sample of *nix based developers.

Good analogy. But you got the countries around the wrong way with "(US/USSR, Apple/Google)". The resemblence to the cold war is even more striking when you realise that this also parallels planned economy vs free market.

It will be interesting to see if we get the same result at the company level as we did at the country level.

I like almost all of her icons, but I can't stand the command icon. It doesn't obviously relate to its meaning and its difficult to describe in words to someone else. It causes so much confusion. I can see why Jobs didn't want to use the Apple icon any more, but I can't think of an icon I dislike more than what they replaced it with.

I suspect a majority of people don't.

Except Amazon Prime still doesn't work on Android, other than the Fire. Kindle is truly cross platform, but Prime streaming video is not.

Is there any way of upgrading the RAM on this so that it can run SteamOS?

I don't think that iOS is more logically organised, easier to use or more intuitive than Android. The settings system is a mess, and it is often much harder to do simple things on iOS than Android unless you stay strictly within Apple's suite of apps and services.

What about patents that come out of universities?

How do you determine the "revenue related to the patents"?

That is beautiful. I'm really looking forward to hearing more reconstructed ancient music.

Buy an Android, and if you are worried about Google's targeted ads, then don't link it to a Google account. Or put Ubuntu or FirefoxOS on there.

There may not be a perfect option out there with no tradeoffs, but there are options that are far far worse for the industry than others.

What kind of warped reality do you live in that only selling 5 million units a year while updating the hardware every week is "no big deal"?

Regarding rapid obsolescence, this seems to work very well in Asian markets. They typically release a far greater number of devices, because there is a strong market for second hand phones, and many people like to keep switching to the latest thing.

I'm sure he does believe that it is a better tablet for some people's needs, that's pretty incontrovertible. Any argument that one is simply "better" than the other in general is pretty silly.

You are missing my point. It is not that it is impossible for people to move away from Google, just that it is far more likely that they will move away from Facebook.

And I don't remember anyone saying that people wouldn't eventually move away from iPhones, blackberries and Palm pilots. People might move away from Android, but it would take many years, and it probably won't be en masse to FFOS.

Most people I know use gmail, and not a single one of them is thinking of changing due to privacy concerns (as far as I know). What better option is there for a non-technical person anyway?

80%+ of people who own smartphones use android, and they have phones for most niches - big, small, cheap, stylus, unlockable, replaceable battery etc. They have several manufacturers making phones with it. Their position there is not fragile either.

I'd love to see Firefox take off, but there is no way it is going to be bigger than Android.

Sure, there is a very small chance that everyone will stop using Google's products, but the chances of people moving off Facebook is much greater.

How many people do you know who use gmail? Every time they go on the webmail client they are pretty much back on Google's homepage.

Between all the people who use Android, Chrome, gmail etc, Google would be just fine if Apple and Mozilla changed default search engines.

At the moment, Facebook are a one trick pony that many people can easily live without.

> for most consumers, it's the easiest way to get songs on their phone reliably and in good quality

If and only if they only use iDevices. Otherwise it is easier and cheaper to go elsewhere.

In what world is Al Franken "far left"?