You're a smug asshole, aren't you. The reason they are so successful is the technology falls by the wayside; that's how advanced they are. Just because you get off rooting your phone doesn't mean they're not the leaders in technical excellence.
This article doesn't even bring up ABC (alcohol boards) who's sole purpose is to waste taxpayer money on sting operations at bars and push for esoteric laws that make it harder and harder to get a drink.
Make no mistake -- alcohol boards and organizations like MADD are simply neo-prohibiitonist movements co-opted by religious zealots.
I find it hard to argue with any of the points he makes. I'm sure someone here will, but I found myself doing the mental "gulp of air and raising a finger" then getting silenced again.
I really wish Microsoft had pulled off Windows Phone; it arguably had a much better user experience than Android did (and still does) -- and interesting Nokia hardware.
I simply don't believe Google has the best interests of anyone at heart except themselves and advertisers.
The next 10 years are going to be very interesting indeed.
I used my trial of Beats Music for awhile -- I will admit, it had the BEST discovery and automatic playlist creation of any service I've ever used (Rdio, Spotify, Pandora, iTunes Radio) -- you really could be confident when you suggested a song it would build a list of songs that you weren't skipping.
You could feed 80,000 children in African for 4 million dollars a year.
Get a level set on your life, bud.