I do not think that they are peculiar to MIT. I didn't say that at all. All was saying was that MIT has made so many amazing things in the past and it would be an amazing experience to be part of their program.
These are the kinds of things that make me want to attend MIT. You can easily market these things if you made them user-friendly. Maybe even put a steering mechanism on them?
Certainly the android phone is a competitor to the iPhone now. The whole community including the app store is what makes the iPhone successful. As many people have said, even if a phone comes out that is as good or better as the iPhone, it will only be equal to or better than the iPhone when it has the same community of support and apps.
I personally think that the Android's biggest issue is that it does not have a very solid main place where everyone comes for apps and even if that happened, it would need a lot of publicity, just like the iPhone got.
I know exactly what the writer means by that problem. The first page is really useful to search for new tweets on a topic, but once you login to use what you found, you can't revisit the original home page without logging out.
I find that to be really annoying, especially when I want to tweet about multiple topics that I want to search for first.
For trial projects, I host my own projects within my own network so that I have extremely fast speeds. When I publish them for beta-testing, I use kvchosting.com - they offer unlimited webspace and bandwidth for 2.99/month if you get the two year package.
Now that is an amazing invention. The concept is so simple, but to make a catheter like that must have been such a difficult engineering job. I wonder how they get that wire all the way through blood vessels without puncturing anything. - Now that would be a good invention - a guide wire that automatically finds it way through blood vessels.