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Am I the only WinMo user who knows about NetFront? Or maybe I just have funny taste in browsers? For whatever reason though, I'm pleased as punch with it and I use it constantly. Give it a shot, would-be WM surfers...it torches IE, of course, and reminds me of a faster SkyFire in the features department.

The point isn't that it's "worse than Microsoft" -- it's arguably very similar to what MS would or does do. The point is that it's "the same" as Microsoft.

Which to me just underscores the fundamental truth that Apple owners/evangelists so often fail to accept:

Apple is not your friend. Apple is not your Mom. Apple is not the roommate that shares his weed with you. Apple is a company, they want your money. They want ALL of your money, just like MS. They are not "better people" than the people that run Microsoft. You are not a "better person" than the people that use Microsoft OSs.

Good God, I agree completely with the first two commenters. I think it's awesome that you guys use Twitter more than, say, Office...but how about having some mercy on us regular workin' shmoes who don't spend our days telling our friends what we're up to. Could whoever's on the 24/7 Twitter Beat maybe be reassigned to something a little more useful?

Any chance we could get another three or four stories per day about optimizing Twitter?!

As usual, it seems like the more you got screwed by Dreamhost's little oopsie-pants, the more pissed off you were at their "Lol, I made a booboo!" version of events.

I'm sure all you "get over it" types would have been eager to forgive if your overdraft had kicked in and charged you £60 that may or may not someday be reimbursed.

I'm with Jason -- hang them high; they suck.

What's a Zune?
Get a Mac!

Ah, but why would they put a decent-sized HD in there? We all know that most consumers prefer 8GBs of Flash RAM...even when they're supposed to be watching videos on that gigantic screen. Come on, get with the future...whether it's ready or not!

Give stuff please.

Perhaps because they were disappointed that third-party mobile developers showed little interest in producing games and applications for a totally unique screen size?

dsub --

I think that you'll find, if you ask most bitter, cynical industry assholes like myself, that the people bitching about fanboys at E3 are using the retail label as shorthand. Obviously retailer representatives have every right to be at E3, but counter clerks don't. It's not about equal opportunity, it's not about being nice, it's about doing your job or not being able to do your job.

If, for example, I'm being paid to do competitive evaluation (and a lot of people are) during the show, and I can't get to more than a few booths a day to do it because there's constantly a four-hour line of VERY young folks in front of me, bragging about how they started a blog two months ago to "get free E3 passes" then yeah, I think it's legit to complain.

Sure these guys are the fans, and they're contributing a lot to the industry by buying (or even selling) our product, and that's awesome. But E3 is not a fan show. GC Leipzig is. TGS has a fan day. There probably will be another fan show in the US any day now.

E3 was a show that our bosses all expected us to do work at, and it was getting really hard to do in that environment. And of course, as we all know that environment was tacitly encouraged by those very same bosses, with the ridiculous over-the-top booths and babes and so forth.

But no, I don't see the bitching as "F*** you, I'm an insider and you're not!" so much as "I'm trying to get some work done, and these guys are here to enjoy themselves".

There's no baseball fans or even non-essential club employees at the Winter Meetings, there should be no fans or counter clerks at E3. Hell, they probably shouldn't even have 99% of devs there at all -- just publishers, people that talk to them, PR and press.