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Beyond that, there's the liability issues. Self driving cars will kill people [...] Until the legal framework for handling this is worked out [...]

Agreed, accidents will happen, but why is liability something that needs to be solved first? And who says it hasn't been already? Last year, Google, Mercedes, and Volvo announced their intentions to accept responsibility and liability for their cars in autonomous mode. More companies are likely to jump on board, but for those who don't, they're just following Tesla's lead and placing both the decision and liability on the driver.

Market forces will dictate which path wins, and the market is already capable of handling both approaches, so there's no reason why liability should be a sticking point.

Well, there are rumors suggesting Sony Xperia Z5 is going to have solar panels !
I wonder if it is efficient in terms of both longevity and output milliamps...

ACLU for New Jersey has had a camera app that transmits to the cloud for years. ACLU just recently (as in days ago) rolled out versions for multiple states, apparently only differing by which ACLU office they notify.

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Everybody's talking about this as if CyanogenMod and CyanogenOS are the same thing. They aren't the same even though they come from the same codebase.

Cyanogen, the company, is aiming to take over manufacturer delivered phones. They want to use Google's stupidity in failing to use a copyleft license to push Google out of the phone market.

CyanogenMod, the open source developers don't care much if you don't use their system since they aren't doing it for you. They are doing it for themselves. If you don't like that then don't worry; it's okay. Just don't use the system and don't complain about having an extra option you choose to ignore.

Of course Apple used to be the market share leader. But Android also had most malware back then too.

Apple was never the market share leader. The press just fawns over them like they were/are.

I honestly I think this, like the Samsung Round, is a "shot in the market" to see what people want. Basically Korean makers now have flexible screens, but can't (yet) make fully flexible phones, so they're just sort of coming up with random phones to see where the interest lies.

It's basically early alpha editions of what will eventually be fully flexible phones. That's my take, anyways, from visiting Korea and seeing this stuff.

Why would I want a fully flexible phone that can be twisted like a block of rubber? A device like this one, for example, would just annoy me. I can see lots of uses for electronic paper, like wallpapering your apartment with it and changing the scenery on the walls depending on your moods (like they did in Cloud Atlas) but rubber phones? Perhaps if the device was mildly bendable and would adjust to the shape of your butt-cheek like this one does when you stuff it into your back trouser pocket that might be useful. I suppose Samsung could sell some phones to novelty freaks with wrap around displays also annoying, unless perhaps if you use the wrap around part for software buttons or curved/shaped displays (less annoying) but these are hardly a must-have feature. Just about the only really interesting concept prototype of a flexible display device that I have seen so far was a cylindrical e-reader where you could pull out a thin flexible screen and then reel it back into the device. It offered the same reading area as a small tablet but took little more space than a large roll of coins. It looked a bit like this thing. Then I began to wonder what happens when you want to use a ultra flexible electronic paper display like that as a touch-screen interface. Try holding up a thin and flexible piece of cardboard and think about what it would be like to use as a touch screen. Perhaps a device like this could use voice commands (don't have much hope for that after variations in english accents defeated Siri) or eye and gesture tracking instead?

Or they've recognised a promising revenue stream and are going after it. MS won't let Windows go easily - it's too much part of their historic and current success.

I think you have misunderstood me. I agree Microsoft will fight to the death for Windows. However, that is not the death of Microsoft; The death of their competitors; the death some of their lesser products; the death of their partners certainly. MS office, however, is not on the table. Normally they would be willing to wait with even starting working in an Android release until long after WP9 just to ensure that there is space for the Windows division to benefit from having office. Now, however, we know that office will be available for Android before even WP8 has been released. There is a reason for that, and the reason is that they already know that there is a strong risk that Office gets completely displaced by the new office suites for Android or the ones developing for iOS as those become cross platform and available to more people than MS Office. An even worse fate would be if the current trend that people simply don't need an office suite - it turns out email + presentation tools is enough for most people - simply continues.

Microsoft is now fighting a multi-front war. They spent so much effort locking out Linux from access to desktop protocols that they have now locked themselves out of the future of computing, which looks like a combination of iOS and Android. They have also allowed a vast group of users who don't need an office suite to grow up. Even at the beginning of this year they were clearly stating that they would never produce Office for the iPad. If the main priority was Windows, then there would be no chance of any information about releases of Office for non-Windows devices until well after the launch had been completed. They would even be willing to take quite big risks if they thought it might pay off. As it is, the fact they changed their mind show they have clearly decided that doing that would be too big a risk for Office for the benefit it is likely to give. In other words:

1. they don't see as much upside for Windows 8 tablets as they claim
2. they see much more risk for MS Office than they claim

You're reading the chart wrong. The chart states that the iPhone 3G, released in June 2008, ran the current OS for three years after release, which is correct: the iPhone 3G was updated to iOS 4.2.1, which was released on November 22, 2010, and it continued to run the current major iOS 4.x series until iOS 5 was released in October 2011. (Granted, it stopped receiving updates in March 2011 with iOS 4.3, but that was still the same major version series.)

The iPhone 3GS, meanwhile, will likely get support for at least 4 years, given that Apple is still selling the iPhone 3GS and, historically, provides at least 2 years of support.

As for the Samsung Galaxy, which Galaxy? The Samsung i5500 is pre-loaded with Android v2.1, in the summer of 2011. That's 2 major releases behind!

The Samsung Galaxy S II, meanwhile, was shipped with Android v2.3, which is still the current version (4.0 hasn't shipped yet). It's rumored to be getting ICS, which is good, but previous Samsung phones were also promised to get updates...which never happened. So we'll need to wait-and-see.

Apparently a lot of people do indirectly notice http://androidheadlines.com/2011/04/new-samsung-devices-to-feature-unlocked-bootloaders.html. Samsung Android device are becoming mightily popular, you can tell by the lawsuits, that 'i' is becoming less popular every day.

Despite of all of the hype, Apple users really have no taste.

First off, broad-brush much?

Second, you really think that someone who thinks this is "sexier" than this really has no taste?!?!? Besides, I thought all the slashdotters had the opinion that all Apple users were more interested in form than function; so which is it?

The iPad is a poor consumption device.

Sez you. And again, I thought Slashdotters thought that the iPad was only good for "consumption". Again, which is it?

Fortunately for Apple, most of their users don't have enough imagination to bang up against the barriers that Apple likes to put in place.

With over 65,000 iPad-specific apps, and over 250,000 iPhone apps that will at least run on the iPad, those "barriers" are so far over the horizon that by the time those "unimaginative" Apple users you hypothesize get within a Parsec of the so-called "barriers", they will have jumped out another 10 Parsecs.

And for those who just can't take the fact that there are only 65,000 apps (and can't write their own!), they can simply "jailbreak" (root) their iPad, and have it all.

Now what?