sam

As the developer they can post it directly to the App Store and get 70% of gross revenues.

With the Xbox Live Marketplace, after MSFT and a publisher have taken cuts, the developer is left with only about ~30% of gross revenues.

Epic probably made about the same off each $6 iOS game and $15 XBLM game.

@Damaniel

Eh, maybe for the followers, but for the tech trend setters that originally made the iPhone popular, such as many of the people who read Engadget, there had to be good arguments for the iPhone. And there are.

As usual, Apple offers a product that offers a very attractive balance of size, performance, features, and price. A disproportionate amount of tech nerds on this site will highly value the 4.3" screens on some of the higher end Android phones, but then again the bulge created in these peoples' pockets will be camouflaged by the various bulges of fat also protruding out of their pants (to make an absurd generalization). They might also permanently carry around a tech bag with their netbook, DS, and various chargers and portable USB battery extenders, so some Android phones' inferior battery life won't matter to them either. And they enjoy nothing better than customizing their software setup (and then having to reflash their OS after it gets corrupted) so they again are disproportionately likely to prefer the openness of Android.

Not hating on Android, just defending the perfectly cromulent decision to buy an iPhone.

@magumba78435

Yeah, I just posted the same thing. So is engadget saying that all "featurephones" (aka dumbphones aka crapphones) are the same and useless?

I guess I would kind of agree with that. If I was shopping for a dumbphone, I would just look for a compact flip design with as little extraneous crap in the GUI as possible.

This list is stupid. The actual retail price of the phone is negligible compared to the service that you have to commit to. Just talking about the marginal difference between a cell service plan without and with a smartphone data plan, you're talking about $30/month with Verizon and AT&T. That's $720 over your 2 year agreement. At that point, what the hell difference did it make that your phone was "free" or "$200". You're only going to get a real savings if you move down to a dumbphone and don't need a data plan. Woe be the idiot who saves $200 by buying into the dying WebOS platform.

@Ducman69

Thats not true, the 27" iMac panel is IPS and 2560x1440 its a very new panel it is only in a couple displays and it cost about $1000 to $1100. You're probably thinking of a 27" display at 1920x1080/1200 resolution. Obviously they are much cheaper.

@Charlie W

And I'm not anti-Apple or something, their computers aren't even necessarily as overpriced as people assume. Like the 27" iMac is $1700 but you can't get the monitor that it comes with for less than $1000 anyway from any brand. But the Mac Mini is an especially useless and overpriced product

Mac Mini is an abysmal HTPC. 320GB hdd? And only a single 2.5" drive bay even if you were to replace the stock drive. No video input? No blu-ray support? And Now, some of this stuff you can add on externally, but by the time you have two external hard drives, an external usb video receiver, etc, what was the point of buying the Mac Mini? And then of course there is absolutely no blu-ray playback support in OS X. And then the included dvd drive is a laptop drive so its super slow...

Looks like a cool service

@OP

I know this is a gadget blog and not a military blog... but this plane is not a "jet fighter". A "fighter" is an air-to-air combat specialist. This airplane is built for recon and intelligence. MAJOR DIFFERENCE. Since air dominance in the most important component of modern warfare, it will be major news when a unmanned vehicle replaces the F-22 and upcoming F-35 as the dominant air superiority fighters.

Getting rid of wires has been so nice... the first party controller works well, I doubt I would go for this and have to deal with cable tangle again. $49.99 is still more than than $38 you pay for an Xbox 360 wireless controller on Amazon.

I LOVE the idea of the third set of back buttons, but ideally I would would want to map things like jump and melee to them (which are on the ABXY buttons) AND THEN i would want to map the L3 and R3 functions to the ABXY buttons that I was replacing. Looks like you can't do it.