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Absolutely awesome article. Sums up all my own thoughts perfectly. Nice work, Chris. :)

Oh, how could I have missed that one! I’m ashamed of myself. :p I hope v2.1 brings the ability to forward text messages. Why the heck is it not there! It makes no sense. I hope it brings copy-paste. I hope it brings a lot of stuff, but I know it won’t.

Yeah, but that’s an advertised feature. It was mentioned in the WWDC keynote and I didn’t want to add those to an already lengthy article. :)

“If all else fails, there are plenty of utilities that will convert flash to whatever. If I had enough coding prowess, i would write something that would auto-add the converted vids to iTunes, unless somebody already has.” Of course, there are several such utilities, the most popular one for the Mac being VisualHub. I agree with you. We might see a Flash lite sort of thing that resides as an individual app on the phone and is capable of playing black flash videos. However, given that the iPhone’s filesystem is not user accessible, I’m not sure how they’ll implement it. As usual, we’re just going to have to wait and watch.

Just so that everyone is clear, this article focusses solely on desktop Linux and how it's perceived by the average Windows/Mac user. Nothing else. My comments about Linux developers not being able to deliver a truly world class product that can compete with the likes of Windows and Mac OS X also relate to desktop Linux, not open source software in general. @Devanshu, I can see how, as a Linux user, you might disagree with how I've described Linux users in my article. And you're right too. However, when you consider yourself, you're not thinking about the average Linux user. Most Linux users I know are the sort that I've described: they're awed by those wobbly windows, are unwilling to accept that the platform has any flaws at all, use Linux only because it's free and earnestly believe that all software should be priced at $0.00. I committed a major blunder though—I shouldn't have categorized all Linux users as the same. I didn't intend to and I realized that I had only after reading your comments. I apologize for that. All Linux users are not the same. A certain subset of Linux users, the ones who're contributing to the community (even by just being responsible members of it), are definitely a cut above the rest. You're also right about that fact that “most of this article could be re-written from the perspective of a PC user by replacing Linux with Mac, replacing “server admins and nerds” with “artists and elitists””. Yes, it could. This article is all about generalization. I didn't set out to establish what was right and what wasn't. I just wanted to take a look at the status quo and have a discussion about it. What I've described is what, IMHO, is the state of affairs today. Whether it's justified or not is what the debate is about.

Absolutely awesome article, Chris! And right on the mark too. One look at the comments on digg stories relating to Apple (and sometimes even not) and you can clearly see the point you're trying to make. It's not the little Apple anymore and empathising with the company is not like defending David from Goliath, like it used to be. I wasn't around when Apple was wallowing in the pits and on the brink of bankruptcy, so I don't know what it was like at the time and what people's perceptions were of the company and its followers. However, it's easy to see that the rampant fanboyish attitude in the Mac community and their inability to "shut the hell up" is only harming the company (or, at least, the community itself).

This is not a review of the X300. I don't need to have hands-on time with it to read the specifications off Lenovo's own chart and points out the bias. :) In my defense, that picture wasn't selected by me. On behalf of our website though, I apologize for the mistake.