@Ian Logsdon: I only played for a day or two but it was really neat to build whatever you wanted in a sandbox world.

@ddjeffries: That implies that phones are completely unusable and unproductive, then, which in my experience is absolutely not the truth.

@Gerardo Zamudio: Yeah, well I did make a vague suggestion (I think it was literally "don't forget to support the site"... no explicit mention) but there was absolutely nothing I could do. The email was quite specific that replies wouldn't be read and there were no appeals at all.

@ddjeffries: I do think it was a bit of an overreaction, though. I mean, if the complaint is that it's too much like a phone to make owning a phone and a tablet almost redundant, that hardly makes it unusable.

So it seems that the reviewer really hates 7" tablets.

I started a website exactly like this back in 2004 or so. Same idea, same execution more or less, less web2.0 stuff at the time.

@rwald: That's true, after all Doctor Who is not his name (at least in the modern series)

@joeny1980: Don't forget when he wrote it it was kind of a bombshell, too. Of course now that you know the situation and the outcome already, it doesn't come off as strongly, but at the time...

I asked him on twitter what sort of exercise he did, and he said not much, as he didn't want exercise to be a deciding factor in the weight loss.

@truthtellah: Oh, I try, but typically I fail because we live in a society of instant gratification. Sad but true fact, young people these days don't want to wait for things they want.

@truthtellah: Agreed, but in my experience credit cards are typically horrible abused. Particularly among college age people. I knew people who did the following:

@truthtellah: This is exactly what I thought, and your suggestion is exactly what I do. Debit + checking accounts, no credit card debt at all. $0. People are seriously spending $6k a month in credit?? On what?

@milo128 shouldn't have done that.: Eight is the minimum amount of space required to use all the features, not the maximum.

@The Lab: You can't be an anti-something fanboy, as that goes against what the term fanboy means.

@jepzilla: Near perfect? Like no multitasking, no copy/paste, no sideloading of apps, no customization options?

@The Lab: You didn't say that though, you said they don't introduce new tech.

@blue-eyes-whitedragon: The authors are representing Gizmodo, though.

@OgilvyTheAstronomer: I disagree, ever seen an Apple fan in front of their computer during an Apple Event? Spasming in front of their devices like they have lost their minds.

@wjbean: I agree, it still seems odd that Apple would pass up the chance though. It's clear that they were interested just by having NDA-style agreements and talks with the CEO. That's really what I was replying to, I don't think it's a case of "we didn't invent it so we don't want it", I think the CEO of the company…

@wjbean: Using Qualcomm chips is a far cry from, say, Intel purchasing Qualcomm and calling those chips their own.