People are different sizes and have different size hands and fingers. The iPhone is too small for some people to hold comfortably/securely and navigate easily. One size doesn't fit all, regardless of what Apple wants you to believe.

Certainly you can appreciate the difference between general search engines and a service like Facebook which is actively focused on gathering and selling information about each of its members and even people who aren't members. I know that there is information about me online - that's part of today's world and I…

Yeah, and some people are in professional positions that they may not want those pictures made public. It's not about doing something illegal or as serious as killing babies, but there are situations where credibility can be undermined.

Awesome article! Facebook is so intrusive for people who aren't interested in using it. Unfortunately, you can't just opt out of Facebook because people using Facebook can still post pictures and information about you, making a Facebook account a necessity to monitor that stuff. People without Facebook accounts will…

Swiftkey has typical tap input, but while it offers the typical Android word selection while you are typing a word, it also has a forward prediction algorithm that attempts to guess the next word you are going to type.

If by optimized you mean that the developers have to include all of that functionality within the app itself. I get frustrated using the iPhone and iPad for this reason. The single button is annoying and the location of settings, etc. isn't always consistent across applications. While 4 buttons may seem too…

Well, it is a beta version, so there are bound to be issues. However, your post highlights one of the issues with programming apps for Android. It is very difficult to program apps which work on the large variety of phones, versions of the OS, screen sizes, manufacturer customizations, technical specs, custom Roms,…

The Android Market has been improving some, but slowly. However, Swype isn't available through the Android Market currently - you have to download the Swype beta directly from their website. However, your point about irrelevant search results is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed.

This is exactly right. UI/UX is why Apple has such a huge share of the market right now. They sell the eye-candy. Google needs to improve this area exponentially. They also need to make it easier for developers to incorporate these slick UI elements into their apps as well.

The point is that you can't just "Quit Facebook" like so many people here suggest when people complain about Facebook's continually moving privacy settings. Facebook's very lax privacy standards are even more of a reason to have a Facebook account so you can keep tabs on what pictures you have been tagged in, somebody…

Does quitting facebook mean that people can't tag you in photos?

I agree that Android needs to work on adding more polish. We keep talking about dual core this and quad-core that, but at the end of the day, the UI isn't very polished and Google hasn't done a good job of making it easy to add polish within apps. Graphics and animations are prohibitively difficult and there are lots…

If the labels like Apple's approach, that should be a red flag that the labels are going to win and consumers (and musicians) are going to lose.

Apple vs Amazon vs Google aside, every single person who loves music should hope that Amazon and Google prevail in their fight with the record labels on this. Not owning/having full control over music you paid for is ridiculous. And I don't mean you have the right to illegally distribute music, but you certainly…

Amazon already has a ton of content, now they need to create a device to maximize that content - which is exactly what Apple did with iTunes, the iPod, and eventually the iPhone/iPad.

@Y2KGTP: I think the widgets are going to make Android tablets much more usable than the iPad. There's so much more screen real estate that it is just wasted if you are limited to icons. Widgets are perfect for the tablet interface.

@Duffin: They didn't request any feedback from us on the refund window. I would have told them to keep it at 24 hours. Certainly nothing less than 6 hours.

@Kenneth Blaney: That's an interesting suggestion and something that could work but I see a couple of potential issues.

@chefgon: Are you a programmer? I'd definitely be interested in talking to you about this.

As a developer, we are excited about the changes to the Market. However, the 15 minute limit is too short. They should allow at least an hour, and even 6 or 12 hours would be appropriate. As someone else mentioned, a lot of people buy the app when they first hear or read about it, then try it out later. The short time…