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"Radical New" and "Theory" doesn't make sense, surely this would be a hypothesis :)

Go Launcher: 100-500mil installs Nova Launcher: 5-10mil installs Smart Launcher: 5-10mil installs ADW.Launcher: 5-10mill installs

That's just the top 4 and makes it over 115 millions installs. Facebook Messenger has 100-500mil installs. So I think it's safe to say that there is plenty of people that install launchers.

But anyway, I was pointing out that you don't require to reinstall the system to customize the system. In fact, you can make an android look like any of the other ones any time and without too much tech savvy-ness

There is no need to root or reinstall the entire system. You can just install a new launcher app. I think it would be better to have tested against vanilla Android (The one that comes with the nexus). Probably more people has that system than a Windows Phone.

Now just need an svg/canvas version and a way to cheaply print it to silicon.

Not affecting Play Store apps so it's really irrelevant. If you try to download an app without paying or knowing the source of it you probably deserve a virus. ;) It's like if you get some knock off drug off the internet and gives you more trouble than gain... would you blame the pharma company?

Has anybody found the source Case Study? It's not on the mentioned companies websites.

Typical availability heuristic. We meet a couple of Jurassic programmers that are stuck on their old ways and we correlate those unrelated properties. You'll be surprised of how many "young" developers are reluctant to learn a new language, tech or OS.

Why not create a P2P server that runs on something simple like a raspbery pi to provide supporting backbone for the network. They are cheap and small. This could make an awesome kickstarter project. Maybe make it like a keychain that wakes up every 5-15 minutes to update/broadcast messages

Did you mean the next esperanto? I don't think anybody thinks that English is going to be the next Latin, thanks to the internet, which is good though. A common language is useful for international relations. I usually call English a flapjack language because it was made from many others mashed up (quite badly sometimes). But the next Latin?

Did you read my post? Did I say anything about government funds?

I'm talking about companies' priorities. So someone talks about social things and you assume that they are talking about big daddy government? There are plenty of companies that make profit AND also make research for the common good and not how to kill each other better.

I mentioned those things because they are the most obvious and possibly important... but there are more subjects like environment, education, mass transport, open governments, factory automation, communications... that could do with more research.

Also, not all the profit should be monetary. Who are you gonna charge that money when there is no people left that can spend it?

No "social profit" -> no people -> no business. Your clients should be your interest not your product.

Bottom line: An "effing" waste of resources!

Why do people that speak some flavour of English feel frightened by other languages?

Very basic and, on Android, not all the resolutions are provided. For android this one is miles away from the one provided here

(well maybe it doesn't have the fancy animation):

http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/...

An addition, this one is to actually be able to draw something :)

Because instead of spending research money into getting cheaper and more accessible healthcare, food and housing it is used to kill more efficiently, maybe?

There is no vegetarian option?