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The boom box was a significant price reduction from the standard hi-fi setup of the 70s. Cell phones, on the other hand, were prohibitively expensive for many years after their initial introduction.

I'm not worried about fossilized bacteria taking over Earth's ecosystem.

Half Life 2 is just another first person shooter, they're a dime a dozen. Doesn't mean it was easy to make.

If I pay $570 for an unlocked Nexus One to use on AT&T's network, I still pay the same monthly service price as my friend who bought a $99 subsidized iPhone.

I get no advantage for my nice unlocked unsubsidized phone when the current pricing model is based exclusively around subsidized handsets.

If it works on the G1, it'll work pretty well on other devices if you're careful about the assumptions you make. Honestly, the hardest part has been producing separate assets of all our images for different resolutions.

Granted, we're not doing anything with OpenGL, my understanding is that gets much more complicated.

"Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things," said his sarcasm. "If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds."

For something handling financial transactions, or for anything of a high value, no.

I think there are a lot of sites out there that not having to administer their own machines is worth the minor loss of control. Sure, there will always be sites that need that control, but for many web apps (etc) out there, I think AWS will be worth the tradeoffs.

I have noticed that Apple's Pages, while idiosyncratic in its own bizarre ways, does fulfill a number of the author's complaints regarding other word processors, particularly when it comes to ligatures and old-style figures (the numerals with ascenders and descenders).

So which is it?