Is this why I weigh more when I go to England?

@Almightywhacko: Basically, I want Gizmodo's star system applied to apps, yeah. Selected apps float to the top, after they prove themselves, and that can be both quality indie devs and companies.

@MisterChuck: That's not ironic. Not at all.

@Almightywhacko: I really like the "approve/dislike" options, let users police the market, not the corporations.

@Crawl to China: There's that, too!

@Crawl to China: Maybe. Or maybe there's a reason my Wii barely gets powered on but my 360 gets used very frequently.

Interesting, my Evo has the same graphics power as the Wii? Amazing.

@NuevoLeon: Yeah, there's some of those for Android too, some not as far as I know. Interesting to see how you use it. I'm a technology researcher out in Boston so I don't have a "niche" need for ANY device, really. I guess I would have assumed there were already tried-and-true methods of doing some of those things…

@NuevoLeon: Ahh, I see, the "entrenched in a platform" problem. Yeah, I can see that. Gotta stick to a platform and bear with it sometimes. I switched from WebOS to Android, luckily I only spent $20-$30 over the year on apps so it wasn't a huuuge deal. But it made me stop and think a little.

@NuevoLeon: What kinds of apps are you "heavily dependent" on for work school etc. that are unique to the iPhone? Not trying to be snarky, but I've learned that a LOT of people think things only exist on iPhone when they've been around a long time on other platforms, even the web.

@NuevoLeon: Out of curiosity why would you buy a phone that clearly has problems instead of waiting to see if it gets fixed or getting a more advanced phone that doesn't have known issues?

This has been out for a WHILE now, it's not new. I mean, the iPhone app is new but it's been available for a long time.

@tmlfan81: Now imagine what it's like to own a Palm phone. Only one major OS version to date, only two phones (the second one being a DOWNGRADE of the first), small app store, devs abandoning ship like crazy, and only general promises of "new hardware in the works" but no details at all.

@JimmyBanks6: This article is NOT talking fact. It opens with a completely subjective statement: that the iPhone is the "most beautiful thing".

@sapperhedge: Now, I'll think of bears.

@tipTI: I was thinking the opposite. Despite talking about the failures this whole article still reads as a love letter.

@JakeMG: Apple hates choice. Now they're removing the choice to hold your phone how you want to.

@bmwmpower: I've literally never had this problem on any phone I've had, smartphone or otherwise.

@painfull2006: THANK YOU. Oh hey that popular new HTC phone? You get a blurb on the updates. BUT HOLY SHIT THE LINE AT THE APPLE STORE IS SLOW LET'S WRITE AN ARTICLE.

"Widescreen" DVDs with progressive scan is also "tricking" people into thinking it's HD content.