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Google made an extremely smart decision in its development of Android and the ways users can install applications, by doing what Apple should have done all along. An Android user has the Android Market, while an iPhone user has the App Store. But if an owner of an Android phone decides not to use the Market, this user need only visit another site with Android applications to install anyr mobile app outside of Google's purview.

To put it bluntly, Android has a multitude of possible channels for the distribution of apps. The iPhone does not.

I completely agree. Android users have the benefit of knowing which apps Google's endorses without being limited to use only what they endorse. Even users of software distributed outside the Android Market could benefit by checking whether our software has never been on the Market, or has been deleted from the Market, which would suggest those aren't the warez we're looking for. The more I learn about it the more I think my next mobile electronic device will be an Android.

August this year do ya? Here you go.

Why not link directly to the list instead of the pointless poll?

Something missing here. The article claims to be "A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed" Yet, the article has nothing of the sort, and the linked page is a just an opinion piece on the lack of Firewire in the new MacBooks.

I'm guessing this is the link that was intended.

I can't believe that "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" didn't make the list.

I'm sorry, Dave, it did (essentially)—it got distinguished mention among the fictional error messages at the end of #5.