Here's a though. Maybe, just maybe, she had a different opinion to you. Maybe, just maybe, all she hears is her nerdy boyf blathering on like a fanboy about *his* preferred platform, because that *exactly* what you sound like to me...

Re: Yep, I agree @AC

the 90's called, they want their meme back. Tit.

Re: New product?

@Ragarath

Well earned I'd say!

"The open source feeling has long lost Ubuntu..."

"I use openSUSE..."

How short our memories are!

Re: Respect !!

"These wars weren't started by Maggie, but that doesn't mean Argentina wasn't equally about oil."

Argentina invaded the Falklands. She didn't start it, they did. Was it about oil? Probably. It was equally about letting the rest of the world know that she wasn't to be trifled with and had the resolve to look out for Britains interest and citizens.

Re: North American centric sales surveys are less than meaningful ...

Where do I get a copy of the Android apologists handbook?

"Ignoring the fact that Apple is looking tired, using a handset that is as common as that phone is, doesn't make it good - it just proves how many suckers out there actually believe their advertising." Could it be that sme people have differing priorities to your own you utterly ridiculous fanboi.

"And Apple doesn't do Facebook, which is actually the perfect medium for characters who buy Apple." Say's the obvious narcissist...

Re: How could you say such a thing.

"Google has the very best interests of Google at heart, and we should all be grateful for that." TFTFY

Re: I'm not sure ...

Unlinke a website not a million miles away?

Re: Gouging

'Submit it as a PDF and tell them to fsck off get with the times.'

Good luck with that approach.

Re: wtf ? @Greg.

Nah-a. Let's keep those goal posts static. If Mozilla wanna play this game, they have to let other engines on. After all Gecko is sat on top of a Linux kernel, therefore it could run a webkit browser.

Re: Nano is OK for simple users

Or, y'know, accept that computing has moved on and use a decent modern editor that combines the best features of the terminal or the GUI. Like sublime. It even has a decent vi mode.

Yes, it is a bit of a troll for which I apologise, but I genuinely find vi and emacs can be sledgehammers used to crack peanuts.

Re: wtf ?

Hardly a fair comparison? Why? Surely what is good for the goose and all that? Mozilla need to put up or shut up. Frankly, I'd prefer the later until they are actually shipping devices.

Obviously...

And yet 75% of the smartphone market is Android. Surely not even you are stupid enough not to see the clone correlation there, or are they all individuals for buying similar devices? Clown.

Re: Only crazy people need apply.

Nah, just confirms that this site is overrun with Google fanbois...

"Who do you trust more?"

Neither frankly! If you trust Google with anything, you need your head examining.

Re: Apple - Arse - Elbow.

You really are quite the "intellectual". No, sorry, I meant clown. Apologies.

Re: Apple - Arse - Elbow. (@Aaron Em)

So don't use an iPhone then you muppet. It's not as if owning one is a requirement of law. It's not as if Google's offering is significantly better in that part of the world either.

Re: Another one down

Quick, someone attacked Google! Thank the makers that Shitpeas is around to decent their honour. :-/

FWIW, for once he's right. This seems to be a decision driven by the success of WebKit as a rendering engine. V8 (Opera are adopting the Chromium branch after all) is a shit hot JavaScript engine too. Obviously the stuff about Apple/Microsoft telling everyone to hate on Google is just Bazza's paranoid fanboism.

Re: I love programmer snobbery.

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."

Re: Prior art ?

Really? You don't think that perhaps the Apple store layout precedes the PC World one?

Trolling?

You 're like a stuck record. We get it, you don't like Apple or their users. Well done. I'll make sure that you get a shiny medal. Now, pretty please with a cherry on the top, can you stop trolling and spamming every single Apple article that published here?

So much for the house rules El Reg mods...

Apologies in advance for the pedancy...

It s " A *and* R, as in Artists *and* Repertoire written as 'A&R'. Other that that, I completely and utterly concur with what you have said!

@John H Woods: That quote has been attributed to Pablo Picasso. It's thought that both 'borrowed' it from T S Eliot; "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different." Whether or not Stravinsky and Picasso improved upon the dictum I'm not sure, they certainly expressed it more succinctly.

You *can* swat flies with an iPad, just don't expect apple to uphold the warranty.

re: And what IP have they 'stolen', pray tell

"Because as far as I can tell this is a copyright issue, not an IP issue." Copyright *IS* IP you fucking moron! "IP" mean "intellectual property". Trade dress or how something looks is intellectual property. Hey, everyone is entitled to an opinion on this and I'm not going to argue who is right or wrong, but at least have the gumption to understand the fucking issues at hand. Idiot.

Tout a fait;

donc il faut on n'oublie pas que le "détesteurs" sont vachement rien d'autre d'un bande des branleurs.

Shame about the childish commenters isn't it?

"...TheRegister's attitude of "Apple can do no wrong" is getting really annoying."

You are joking aren't you? I mean, there is an IT Crowd reference and everything. Either that or you are new here. Yeah, you are new.

Is it me or are fandroids getting at least as bad as the other fanbois? There seems to be more of them too.

BTW, El Reg doesn't have a bias; irreverence is *the whole point of the site*. The other thing to recognise is that this "article" is editorial, "Open...and Shut" is an opinion column.