Considering that there are pretty much no other open source mobile platforms, that is trivially true.

So are you saying that no response data ever should be published, or people should be forced to take surveys and what not?

Getting good survey data requires that the subjects agree to take a survey before you tell them what will be surveyed. This still biases respondents, obviously, but it puts all surveys on an equal playing field.

Someone still thinks artificial scarcity is a viable business model?

This is not why they use mainframes instead of the cloud. This is why they employ competent sysadmins.

Good, loops are just gotos in disguise, and gotos are already banned in Java. This just makes the language more consistent.

Gah, I didn't remember that Java programmers have no sense of humor.

Jokes that many members could come up with have no place on Hacker News. That's the road to devolving into a community where everyone tries to out-joke each other and the actual insightful comments get buried under the jokes. Just grin at the thought and enjoy the happiness, but don't post it. It's not that it's not funny; it's just that it is too easy a comment.

Sometimes our jokes aren't as funny as we think they will be. :(

Perfect summation of everything java.

That's quite incorrect, Java is very good about allocating memory, it's often too much, too early.

That doesn't say much without any information about which other laptops you've owned...

There's insanity, and then there's this...

> We know this is true in our own lives. Things are lasting longer and working better.

Is this guy living in some parallel universe where planned obsolescence of overly complicated and fragile products isn't the norm?