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You purchased a license to play the encrypted DVD when you bought your DVD player. If you didn't pay the license fee, then you have no right to play the encrypted content. You see this issue come up when you purchase cheap OEM DVD drives that don't include DVD software to decrypt the disks.

Most people have broadly interpreted the DMCA to mean that you can't strip the original encryption from any copy that you make, but this is often required for you to make the copy in the first place.

One company found a way to make copies while keeping the encryption intact, and got sued for their trouble.
Their DVD jukeboxes were ultimately ruled to be legal, due to a technicality in their license agreement.

Although other devices may be accessing these points as well, these locations were reported by Apple devices. Once the MAC is resolved for that point, the process continues by isolating the devices using that router using a service such as Google's location services. Google locked down security on this service for this exact reason http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20074571-281/google-curbs-web-map-exposing-phone-locations/.

Read deeper into the article before judging.

Ernie Ball disagrees with you. Ernie Ball make the world's best guitar strings, and went 100% non-MS after MS treated them badly. There are a lot of companies that have gone all Linux. Unless you're a professional digital artist, drafting or engineering house, or a gamer, there's absolutely no need for Microsoft whatever.

THANK-YOU...

Steve jobs himself said, "When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farms." Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.

"PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said. "They are still going to be around." However, he said, only "one out of x people will need them.""

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006526-56.html

Where people said that he thought PC's would die is something I don't get. He NEVER said that!!! The problem is that Bill Gates thinks everybody needs a pickup truck, which is clearly not the case!

1) So what if it's older. They get huge bushels of cash from Google and the Brin foundation today. And so they dance like any hired gun. http://boingboing.net/2011/12/10/give-to-eff-today-and-your-do.html 2) Maybe the reason you don't know this is because your invite got lost: https://www.eff.org/event/eff-mixer-google 3) DRM is secure communication. The pirates are the eavesdroppers. Get a frickin clue. And Torvalds's logic is solid. Locking up my love letter so only my spouse can read it is the exact technological challenge as locking up my artistic creation so only the non-pirates can view it. http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2003042401126OSKNLL http://news.cnet.com/Torvalds-says-DRM-isnt-necessarily-bad/2100-7344_3-6034964.html Quit being a sap for leeching business models. The EFF and Google just want to manipulate you into hating DRM so the money will keep flowing to them. DRM doesn't break the Internet, it breaks Google's business model. They're not the same thing.

This explains it quite well:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57505272-37/who-owns-your-downloaded-music-after-you-die/

"Jay Freeman told Forbes that once he realized his Glass was running Android 4.0.4 -- also known as Ice Cream Sandwich and common to many 2012 era Android phones -- he began testing known Ice Cream Sandwich exploits and found one from a hacker known as B1nary that gave him root access and full control of the Glass."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57581724-1/as-schmidt-speaks-of-caution-google-glass-gets-hacked/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

Now Google iPhone or HTC and look at the sales slump these two companies are facing. Guess their flagship phones don't come with an SD slot.

I Googled iPhone sales and saw that they've sold more this last quarter than they did in the same quarter last year. Isn't that odd?

Then I Googled iPhone 5 v Samsung Galaxy S3 sales and these were the top 3 results:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/iphone-5-overtakes-samsung-galaxy-1798091

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57570235-37/iphone-5-beats-galaxy-s3-as-top-seller-says-report/

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/20/apples-iphone-5-passes-samsung-galaxy-s3-in-q4-global-sales

I'm trying hard to see your point but the figures just don't back it up. If the iPhone is in a slump what does that say about the Galaxy S3?

The SD card slot is a feature that appeals to a very small demographic. You may be in it, but just because its part of your decision making process doesn't mean that its part of everyone else's. Personally I don't care. I don't want to micro manage storage in this century.

If well MariaDB is backward compatible with MySQL, have some advantages on its own, like more choices for storage engines (i.e. Aria as a better myisam than myisam, xtradb instead of innodb, and others), and should have better performance in general than Mysql for the same equivalent version in the same hardware.

That Oracle is being bad right now with their concept of "open" (like suing Google for using Java) is an extra motivation.

This has been a fascinating phenomenon, and it's only going to evolve more as time goes on.

Crowdsourcing or witch hunt? Reddit, 4chan users try to ID Boston bomb suspects

Boston bombing: How internet detectives got it very wrong

'I didn't do anything!' High school track runner forced to deny involvement in Boston Marathon bombings after a picture of him and his coach is widely circulated

Social media as breaking-news feed: Worse information, faster

Worse information, faster -- this neatly sums it up, and I'm a huge proponent of social media and its benefits, including to government.

And for the record, no, the FBI wasn't seeking to "censor" anyone, and the "next logical step" (as I have seen asserted elsewhere) won't be to "shut down" internet or social media resources during major public emergencies; however, law enforcement agencies absolutely can request, once they have identified suspects via investigative and legal processes, that people focus on those instead of playing CSI: Internet.

Sadly, the echo chamber of the internet enables some people, in seemingly increasing numbers, to go a step further and choose to believe everything is automatically a "false flag" conspiracy with the stated perpetrators "framed"â¦..

The "wisdom of crowds" can be a misnomer.

This has been a fascinating phenomenon, and it's only going to evolve more as time goes on.

Crowdsourcing or witch hunt? Reddit, 4chan users try to ID Boston bomb suspects

Boston bombing: How internet detectives got it very wrong

'I didn't do anything!' High school track runner forced to deny involvement in Boston Marathon bombings after a picture of him and his coach is widely circulated

Social media as breaking-news feed: Worse information, faster

Worse information, faster -- this neatly sums it up, and I'm a huge proponent of social media and its benefits, including to government.

And for the record, no, the FBI wasn't seeking to "censor" anyone, and the "next logical step" (as I have seen asserted elsewhere) won't be to "shut down" internet or social media resources during major public emergencies; however, law enforcement agencies absolutely can request, once they have identified suspects via investigative and legal processes, that people focus on those instead of playing CSI: Internet.

Sadly, the echo chamber of the internet enables some people, in seemingly increasing numbers, to go a step further and choose to believe everything is automatically a "false flag" conspiracy with the stated perpetrators "framed"â¦..

The "wisdom of crowds" can be a misnomer.

This is the same guy that headed off the Oracle vs. Java ruling disaster.

The phone has a slew of new features, including an improved 13-megapixel camera

More megapixels is not an improvement.

new software features and it responds to waves and gestures.

Not well according to reviews. Who is going to use them if they don't work reliably? It's the ultimate gimmick to say you can control something literally right in your hand with a wave. It requires more effort to wave than to drag a finger across the screen!

The "Pause video when eyes lose contact with screen" is the biggest software feature miss in history, with approximately 99% of viewers thinking the phone is broken when this happens and most just wanting a video to keep playing regardless of where the eyes go. It totally ignores how actual humans behave when out in the wild with mobile devices.

It also has a 5-inch Super AMOLED 1080p screen

Great, a giant screen with incredibly poor color reproduction.

The last fun fact about the S4 is that buying one shows support for misogyny.

Wrong. Windows 8 has much faster boot up performance, has revamped file operations, has improved text acceleration, geometry rendering, and image performance. These are all performance improvements. Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57478350-75/microsoft-explains-how-windows-8-smokes-windows-7/

And that outweighs the dreadful interface in the minds of users because ...?

Wrong. Windows 8 has much faster boot up performance, has revamped file operations, has improved text acceleration, geometry rendering, and image performance. These are all performance improvements. Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57478350-75/microsoft-explains-how-windows-8-smokes-windows-7/

MSE is highly praised by Slashdotters.

Only by those who don't pay attention to current reviews

Yes, because reviews are so trustworthy! It appears that rather than reading reviews, some of us read slashdot and see how reliable reviews are. Since I pay no attention to reviews, how does Malwarebytes fare? Hmm... Google to the rescue:
"Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a surprisingly effective anti-malware tool given that it hasn't received any major updates in the past few years. Sure, the scans are a bit faster and the installation is definitely smoother, but overall the product remains unaltered." -- C|Net

"Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.70 is probably the best-known free removal-only antivirus tool. Even tech support agents for other companies use it. In my own testing it beat out all free and commercial competition, quickly and without any fuss." -- PC Magazine

"Compared to the competition, Malwarebytes offers effective protection against malware that not only complements your current anti-virus, but is also lightweight on resources and snappy in performance." -- TechRepublic

Those are Googles' first three results. Yeah, you keep readinig those glowing reviews for products that brick Windows. I'll stick to reading slashdot.

I can't remember the last time I saw somebody wearing a watch except for some feeb trying to prove something by having a Rolex and pointing it out. If you need the time your smartphone is synched with the USNO and multiple GPS satellites that must know the time to such a degree that your distance from them alters your reference frame. What part of "people don't wear watches any more" is confusing to Microsoft?

This is I think where they're slow-following and don't even understand what they're following. It's sad. Microsoft really needs somebody with a clue, and they haven't got one.

Ok, so Apple, Samsung and Google are equally clueless? They are all reportedly working on a smart-watch.

Why bother crippling the grid by hacking chargers when they could just hack it directly

Most of the big US corporations don't make sound business decisions. They are good at shenanigans and not much else. Shady accounting, corruption, price fixing, wage theft, etc.

Besides, for Zuckerberg, Gates and company, this isn't a business strategy, it's ideology. It's like the use of stack ranking at Microsoft or always online single player games at Electronic Arts.

A group of peasants (workers, consumers, etc) who must be "kept in their place" is designated, the policies designed to keep them in their place are followed. If they can get government enforcement, so much the better, but if not they can use cartel or monopoly behaviour to try to enforce it. The idea that this is based on rational behavior is nonsense. It's not even naked self-interest. it's as dumb as the old Soviet "inheritance of acquired characteristics" nonsense and possibly even more destructive.

Qu'un sang impur, Abreuve nos sillons!

Steve Jobs, June 2010:

Speaking for an hour and a half at the D: All Things Digital confab, Jobs said the day is coming when only one out of every few people will need a traditional computer.

"When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farms." Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.

"PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said. "They are still going to be around." However, he said, only "one out of x people will need them."

This is the thing I hate -- and it's not just Apple. These US companies offshored Allllll their manufacturing and processes to take full advantage of cheap labor, third-world economies and loose environmental restrictions. People at home get laid off[0] jobs dried up, manufacturers closed their doors, and a good portion of blue collar labor went on unemployment. Now, these same assholes complain their is no "skilled labor" to fill their job openings, so they need to import H1B workers[1]. What's more, then become worried that they can't find a source for components for their gizmos that USED TO BE PRODUCED IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD? The irony is mind-numbing.

[0] - TI lays off 1700
[1] - H1B Visa lottery

... Speaking of the interface, Microsoft should seriously fire the people who are responsible for this garbage ...

They did.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57548751-75/controversial-windows-boss-steven-sinofsky-leaves-microsoft/

ok cool. Factoring all those brilliant geniuses Google has hired and herded together for "spontaneous creativity" and that 20% own time thing, et cetera et cetera I have this to say:

That's it?

It's not very impressive is it? I'd think even Apple is doing better in terms of "innovative" products that are actually profitable. Yeah people like to say the iphone, ipad, ipod, app store, itunes etc sort of stuff might have all been done before and Apple just hit the sweetspot.

But the same can be said about Google Maps (Terraserver[1]), Google Ads, Google Apps (ThinkFree Office[2]), gmail, etc. If not more so.

Seriously, given all that cheering going on about Google's methods in the article, here and everywhere else, don't you expect more? Maybe not Xerox PARC, or SRI ARC level but really.

I hope they make a good human augmentation product out of Google Glass rather than some stupid ad delivery crap. If they want some ideas on that, I can provide many for _free_ just because I don't want to die of old age waiting for the future to arrive. While getting rehashed reruns over and over and over again.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research_Maps
[2] http://reviews.cnet.com/office-suites/thinkfree-office-3/4505-3524_7-31615671.html

The problem is with overinflated lawyers fees, court procedures which encourage paperwork which makes even more fees for lawyers and and court fees that the courts are so expensive you are looking at handing lawyers and courts two million up just to defend yourself from a patent troll. If cases were streamlined and it only cost $10K to defend a patent troll it would be far fairer, but lawyers and judges would be out of work. Have you ever heard of judges being laid off for lack of work? Judges whose communities depend on patent trolls for a steady stream of cases have a conflict of interest. If they came down hard on patent trolls and threw out meritless cases there would be boarded up lawyers offices all over town. Instead the judges say well geez better have a trial anyway just to be sure. It might get an answer but it wastes a fuckload of cash to get there. If the USPTO issued firm rulings we wouldn't need the courts. Instead the USPTO scratch their balls and say well I will just approve this shit because I can't understand it anyway and let the courts sort it out. The problem is as much the court system as it is the USPTO. They should streamline these but do you really think lawyers and judges will be putting themselves out of work?

Patents are written in bullshit confusing language so courts argue what they mean. A software engineering looking at one of these wouldn't even recognize their own system in one of these documents. Lawyers write them to be broad and confusing so they can make money arguing it. The USPTO shouldn't be approving patents that are unreadable. And if a IT graduate can't read one of these and work out what they mean, they shouldn't be granted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57409792-296/how-much-is-that-patent-lawsuit-going-to-cost-you/
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2013/03/guest-editorial-throwing-trolls-off-the-bridge.html

Predicted that this would happen: http://news.cnet.com/Report-FBIs-snooping-did-not-follow-rules/2100-1028_3-6166015.html absolutely nobody.

The funny thing is, supposedly, Blink really is named after the obnoxious HTML tag!
This CNET article has an interesting explanation:

Quoting from the article:

The Blink name is a reference to the despised and now extinct blink tag of early HTML that made text blink off and on. It follows the pattern of Google naming projects after what it deems relics from the past: Chrome is designed to minimize user-interface "chrome" that surrounds Web pages; the Chromebook Pixel's high-resolution screen is designed to make pixels disappear; and Blink is designed to do away with browser engine irritations.

Shouldn't it be called "BLING!" then?

the local police chief explicitly said it was OK to record officers acting on official business.

The funny thing is, supposedly, Blink really is named after the obnoxious HTML tag!
This CNET article has an interesting explanation:

Quoting from the article:

The Blink name is a reference to the despised and now extinct blink tag of early HTML that made text blink off and on. It follows the pattern of Google naming projects after what it deems relics from the past: Chrome is designed to minimize user-interface "chrome" that surrounds Web pages; the Chromebook Pixel's high-resolution screen is designed to make pixels disappear; and Blink is designed to do away with browser engine irritations.

I take it you don't remember this.

IDC is also the company that predicted that the Itanium would be a huge success so I would take any prediction of theirs with a grain of salt.

Microsoft is NEVER clean.

SEC probes Microsoft's accounting methods

http://news.cnet.com/SEC-probes-Microsofts-accounting-methods/2100-1001_3-227883.html

Microsoft Agrees To Refrain From Accounting Violations in SEC Settlement

http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18819490/microsoft-agrees-to-refrain-from-accounting-violations-in-sec-settlement.htm

Well, we have known for quite some time that is is not just possible to use your dumb phone as a roving bug while it is turned off, but that it has actually been done.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html

So even though you sound a bit (albeit justifiably) paranoid, you might not be paranoid enough.

It used a combo of cell CPUs and AMD Opterons so if they want to recoup some of the cost i doubt selling those chips would be hard.

Of course this is one more reason i don't like the "game console" way the industry is being pushed, with Intel talking about soldering boards to chips and companies pushing more "black box" computing because if it were not for bog standard yet powerful COTS parts things like Roadrunner would be either impossible or insanely expensive. Yet to hear the industry pundits tell it all we need is a tablet and an iPhone...sheesh. Give me a system I can upgrade any day of the week, the laptops and tablet are fine for service calls or as PMPs but they will always be more about style and battery life than performance.

Mod AC parent up! Here it is again

"At least some at Google [cnet.com] want to embrace a Mozilla-backed project to speed up Web apps written with JavaScript -- even though it competes directly with Google's own Native Client and Dart programming technology. "

"At least some at Google want to embrace a Mozilla-backed project to speed up Web apps written with JavaScript -- even though it competes directly with Google's own Native Client and Dart programming technology. "

Back in 2003 msn.com deliberately sent Opera a faulty style sheet that broke the page, in response and to make a point Opera released a Bork version of their browser that turned msn.com into Swedish Chef talk. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-984632.html

Karma is a Bitch.

Most stylesheets are sent 'deliberately'. What MSN did there was exactly what IE10 has been on the receiving end of from many web sites. When MSIE is detected, it gets an old faulty IE stylesheet instead of the same stylesheet as Chrome/FF gets which would have given much better results. Same happened with Opera on MSN. It's laziness on the side of the web site programmer, who don't bother to properly update and test their code.

Back in 2003 msn.com deliberately sent Opera a faulty style sheet that broke the page, in response and to make a point Opera released a Bork version of their browser that turned msn.com into Swedish Chef talk. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-984632.html

Of course the actual story is that Opera had a bug which that style sheet worked around, when they fixed it in a new version the page looked broken because they still got the modified style sheet. So yes it was deliberate but not malicious, in fact someone had made extra effort to make it work on Opera however the PR opportunity was far too good for Opera to pass up. That's one problem with browser-based hacks, if you're not around to maintain them should you assume the next version of IE will be 100% standards compliant or that most the IE6 hacks would also be required for IE7. It wasn't as obvious as you'd think, to the clients it looked like your site was incredibly fragile when it broke horribly on any new browser version. Those were dark days, long before real standards compliance.

Back in 2003 msn.com deliberately sent Opera a faulty style sheet that broke the page, in response and to make a point Opera released a Bork version of their browser that turned msn.com into Swedish Chef talk. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-984632.html

Karma is a Bitch.

Range compression ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-10360787-47.html ) has done more to destroy the subtitles of music than lossey/lossless formats.

No you can't. Not with any reasonably modern encoder and bitrates above 256. Anyone who tells you otherwise is experiencing the placbo effect. BTW, you can't tell the difference between 16bit/44.1khz audio and 24/96 audio either. And vinyl might sound "better" than digital to you, but digital is objectively more accurate.

Audiophilia is saturated with woo. This is the same market that brought us $500 ethernet cables.

I have little or no influence on my employer's, my local supermarket's or their landlords' decisions on energy consumption. But Apple has enough clout on their suppliers to have them build dedicated plants. Apple can surely push Foxconn for (realistic) green energy policies, and hopefully did so.

Clout is not infinite - if Apple pushes Foxconn to be greener, Foxconn will charge more money.

In that context why don't you find a greener job, or bike to a farmer's market? It's much easier to underestimate the cost of a sacrifice that you ask someone else to make than than a sacrifice you make yourself. The reason for this is that you're aware of the details involved for yourself, but view Apple from far away where everything is rounded and shiny.

I have little or no influence on my employer's, my local supermarket's or their landlords' decisions on energy consumption. But Apple has enough clout on their suppliers to have them build dedicated plants. Apple can surely push Foxconn for (realistic) green energy policies, and hopefully did so.

Of course office buildings are easier to make green/carbon-neutral than manufacturing plants (in an industrial park you use whatever source of power is available), and that's the gist of the half-truth: When they say "our power" it's not just what they own, but what they control and benefit from.

Schmidt is either a liar or or doesn't actually know what's happening in his own company.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57575626-37/apple-google-google-now-not-submitted-to-app-store/

Is the summary really implying Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, is stupid for suggesting that the two OS's will probably merge someday?

So what you're saying is that there is simply no way the free market could ever produce electricity as cheaply as a strongly regulated industry and so it was unfair to insist that it should? Doesn't that suggest that a strongly regulated industry is superior to the free market?

How in the world did you come up with this? In my post you replied to I said nothing about free markets. Because I didn't I also didn't say they couldn't produce electricity cheaper than a regulated market. As a matter of fact I do support free markets, however because power cables need government granted rights of way or easements I do agree there should be some regulations. Especially if a monopoly is granted as well. In the case of power transmission, ie cables, I believe the ownership of them should be separated from ownership of electrical generation. However unlike CA I would not cap how much electrical sellers could charge end users. I would allow prices to fluctuate with supply and demand. I believe the same about cable TV, fiber optics, and phone landlines. For instance the fiber Verizon is laying down. I would split the ownership of the fiber from the services that fiber can provide.The company that owned the fiber would then have to allow any others to use it to provide the services it can provide. That is the existing infrastructure. For new infrastructure I would require a separate entity to build it.

Falcon

Scott Thompson, fired from Yahoo. Hired on by Shoprunner.

Fired for lying on his resume, not because he ran the company into the ground. Despite this, he went from being the man in charge of a company on the Fortune 500 list (barely, at 483), to being in charge of a company that, uhh... doesn't even have a wikipedia page. I had to dig this up to find out what the company even did. It's a startup company nobody's ever heard of.

Léo Apotheker, fired from HP. Hired on as Chairman of the Board for DMK.

HP: Ranked the 10th largest company on the Fortune 500 list. Lost over $300 billion in market capitalization under Apotheker's leadership.
DMK: Doesn't exist.
KMD: Does exist... and is a Danish IT firm with 3,000 employees. Is not on the list. Also... Chairman of a board is not the same as CEO of a company, so it's a false analogue anyway! But let's say he was the CEO -- he went from one of the largest companies on Earth to some tiny po-dunk company in another country.

Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, went on to work at Matrix Advisors and Legend Securities.

Lehman Brothers: Suffered a total existance failure under Dick's fearless leadership. Was only publicly traded for about a decade before folding. In other words, a nothing commanded by a nobody.

Matrix Advisors and Legend Securities: A hedge fund. It's not even a proper company. And it's primary source of income? The money that Dick was able to hide from creditors when he bankrupted both himself and his former company. Like, for example, the mansion he purchased just before it went under that he sold to his wife for $100 to evade creditors.

So as you can see, each of these people didn't get to "keep their cushy jobs"... every mistake led to a dramatic downward step in their cash flow. Far from proving me wrong, you've managed to brilliantly prove my point: CEOs get just as big of a black mark when they're fired as "the peons" do. All three of the examples you provided resulted in someone being a CEO on paper only -- they were never given a real company, with real money, to play with again.

There was nothing in the article and nothing in their source saying that Microsoft was abandoning Windows Phone as a platform.

Maybe not, but it would explain the million-unit order of Blackberry Z10s. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57574188-94/as-z10-preorders-start-blackberry-nets-huge-order-for-new-devices/

Microsoft could stick a Shetland Islands flag on them and flog them off as WP10 devices. At least then they'd have a phone product somebody'd want to use.

The market place and business models for applications in 1983 is quite a bit different from those of current smartphone apps.

If only I could figure out how to explain that to people like CronoCloud, who explained to me the theory that entry barriers are a result of the 1983 crash.

More Apps = More companies believe there is a ROI on porting their apps to that platform.

True, Google Play Store caught up to Apple's App Store in number of applications in the fourth quarter of last year. Yet iOS and console fans will claim that their platforms are still better because the median iOS application is of greater quality than the median Android application, and the median PSN game is of far greater quality and depth than the median Android game.

Sure it's fun to knock Google for shutting down services, but I believe most (if not all) of their shutdowns have always been free services they provide to consumers. I'm not aware of any paid Google service that has been shutdown. Though, Google has been known to drastically increase the cost of their services where it drives people away (mapping and AppEngine are 2 more recent examples, though they lowered the price of maps after a lot of people left).

Google is trying to find services to hook people with, so they fund a lot of startup type projects to see what will hook people. When those projects don't produce the results they want, they just shut them down. But from what I've seen, those have mainly been free services.

Now, taking away open standard support, like CalDAV from calendar, is a much more troublesome issue.

There are 802 PSP games (source) and 1297 DS games (source). As of October of last year, there were 700,000 apps on Google Play and 700,000 on Apple's App Store (source). Are you trying to imply that far fewer than 1 percent of these are games?

Man in a kilt detected on security camera.