Makes sense. I would add that we have reached a point in our society between monogamy and healthcare where the weakest males are still breeding. Not that we have beaten natural selection but we have certainly weakened its effects on us as a species.

I was simply correcting your statement about the XBox dominating the market. It doesn't at least not worldwide and that is even after overlooking the more dominate Wii console. Worldwide if it is ahead of the PS3 it is just barely so it doesn't dominate any market really. All that and MS had to pour tons of cash into…

Not trying to start something but why so many Windows 8 articles? Even Apple struggles to get this many articles on this site in such short succession and I cannot ever remember seeing this many for Android. I know it is an important story but seems like Giz is re-rehashing the same articles in a short time period.

All pretty pedestrian except that middle comment "Common platform". Lots of us developers are anxiously waiting to get out of objective C/Java and back to a significantly more advanced development platform in Visual Studio.

MS has never really been a loyal vendor as loyalty works in direct opposition to their profit model. On the plus side, smart phones are kind of throw away technology at the moment as most people upgrade every other year.

WP7 will work with WP8 but not all WP8 apps will be backwards compatible with WP7 so yes they did just fragment their base somewhat. Fortunately the WP7 base is tiny so it doesn't really matter much.

Its a good idea in concept but it limits the appeal of WinMo to resellers. A major reason Android has these issues is most vendors want to customize the OS to differentiate from the exact same phone right next to them.

I hate to go against a yale guy who is likely smarter than me, but the logic that allergens have nothing in common is false based on outcomes. If two different things trigger the same response, somewhere in the host they must share commonality.

Adding uniformity to Androids widgets isn't a net win nor is it likely a market dominating feature. For some it looks better and others it looks worse. I personally think it looks too busy and plain but that is personal preference. Now the lack of a real widget system in iOS is certainly an issue but it makes up for…

Huh? Can any pro-Apple article get published on Giz these days? WTF... Airplay!?! Wow... just wow.

With no definitive release date there is a lot of time for Apple/Google to figure out how this will effect them and craft a response. Also Windows 8 could also be a complete flop similar to ME, Vista, WinMo7, etc requiring another release to sort out design, compatibility and general performance issues.

The Pro looks like the offspring of an Ultrabook/Tablet marriage. The Pro has a shot as I know a lot of execs like the tablet form factor but want laptop functionality. Also, being able to run x86 apps will give it a lot of legs in the business sector. I know we will likely move our full app over to it and push them…

MS might be able to eventually get there but they have to overtake a lot of lost ground and a tablet without any specs, pricing or time frame isn't going to scare Android much less Apple.

The XBox does not dominate the console market. The Wii still has far more installed units than XBox. Worldwide XBox may not even be in second place.

My advice, put the keyboard away and go outside. It is a great hobby and for some a career but these kids will never have another childhood mostly free of responsibility. Once they get a little older they can spend 40+ years behind a desk. I speak from experience as I grew up writing TRS80, Apple and C64 apps (and I…

Happiness is a generally considered a temporary state so yes money can buy happiness. If a person is permanently "happy", they likely need psychiatric care.

I think they are referring to a national average. If the local average income is 1.5 times the national average, I would multiply 75k by 1.5.

The XBox is a poor comparison. The Wii still dominates total number of units worldwide and for XBox to come in maybe second place they had to pour piles of cash into it selling it as a loss leader for quite a while. If MS can't consistently beat Nintendo and Sony in the global market, what hope does it have against…

The only downside to short term stock investments is falling outside capital gains. If an investment turns out high yields over time which stocks do, shortening the investment cycle doesn't change the long term returns. A person might eat it one quarter but they will be up in the others over time.

Same system works great for fishing poles as well.