It's sad that it takes a non-US citizen (I'm assuming, based on your wording, "your government") to tell a US citizen what their own money is being spent on. That basically sums up the state of affairs in this country.

I wouldn't compare the lack of versioning to cars. Cars have model years which are used in conjunction with the product name. You typically don't walk in asking for a Camry, at some point, you specify that you'd like a 2013 Camry, or a 2012, etc. The iPhone releases in the fourth quarter, and the iPad releases…

Yeah, the two address thing is a killer. It should be easy to fix, too. I'd imagine throwing SMS into the mix would be a bit more complicated, but really, it's just taking a message that the iPhone has already received, and pushing it back out to their existing messaging network, so I'm not really seeing any…

Exactly. This just makes Apple look bad. I can see the issues and sort of understand that there may be technical limitations, but these are IMO unacceptable. Some of these problems are SO BAD that it completely negates all of the benefits of iMessage. There are third party cross-platform instant messaging services…

Nope, not crazy!

Happy to help :)

Allow me to clear up some confusion about iMessage that I've figured out over the past few months (please correct me if I'm wrong):

I'm not sure I'd call it "fake", it's a dual core i7. I don't think i7s necessarily need to be quad core. Regardless, this generation of chips are FAST. People seem to think that if they don't have the absolute top-of-the-line chip, that their chip is slow, and that's simply not the case. These new chips offer a…

Yeah the vendor UI's are pretty awful, but if you look back to when Android was brand new, that was part of the pitch. That's sort of the whole concept. Give hardware manufacturers a common baseline OS that they can share apps between, but allow them to alter it in a way that lets them stand out. Otherwise the…

If you read back to my VERY FIRST reply, you'll see that my entire point in this discussion was that iPhone users get better update support than Android users. It's not an opinion. It's a fact.

They're not mobile powerhouses by any means

Sorry, that's not how I read it. I was just frustrated with all of the silly responses on this thread.

Holy shit, it is unbelievable how stupid some people are on here. From the beginning, I was simply discussing the update cycles on both iOS and Android.

Whoa! I thought I left long comments.

I don't like Flash because I'm a web developer and it's awful.

I'm sorry, I really do try to avoid troll baiting, but I really am looking for some honest discussion here. My original point was simply about the poor update cycle that most Android users experience. Sadly, some of these Android fanboys are too blinded by their own lust for that little green robot, that they can't…

LOL "pure multitasking". Please go learn how Android AND iOS multitasks before making yourself look stupid publicly.

Almost all, yes. And the point is that it GETs updates. UNLIKE some (most) Android devices. That's all that I'm saying here. It's not debatable. It's not based on opinion. It's just reality.

LOL *sigh*

Great point.