7 Reasons Why iPhone Sucks 1. iTunes is terrible. It is a living proof of what bad user experience can drive users nuts. If you ever tried to put it to work, you know what I mean. 2. The default input method is purely brain-dead product. Unfortunately, it is the only one on iPhone. Craving for the fluent input methods such as Swype and TouchPal? Sorry, you are stuck with the official one. 3. Apple keeps all the useful access rights to themselves. So it is almost impossible to find apps which can help you switch on/off radio or sounds on scheduled time. 4. Apple deems jailbreak as intolerable betrayal. Once found, you are officially abandoned by Apple. While Google views root a inherent rights of users. With Android phones, you will be warned that rooting the device may cause hazards. But Google also acknowledges it is your rights to do it. You won't be banned from accessing to Google services. There are many usage models require root rights. For example, Chinese users often need to go around the great firewall. 5. Although Apple fanboys and fangirls keep saying that 3.5 inch the only right size for phone screen, I still cannot help loving bigger display. 6. iPhone is at least $150 more expensive than contemporary high-end Android phone. Is there a feature that only iPhone can offer? No. Apple charged the premium price without providing extra features. 7. So many iPhones are out there. Everybody holds an identical model. Do you want to become of them?

怎么翻译 "塞翁失马，焉知祸福"？ This is one Chinese story I love the best. It says a blessing and a curse are often interchangeable. I wonder is there any equivalent idiom in English?

Why Piracy Is a Friend To Microsoft? Microsoft definitely hates piracy. As the world largest software vendor, Microsoft rakes in billions of dollars each year by selling software licenses. Piracy circumvents software copy restrictions, thus let people get software for near-zero cost. Piracy disrupts Microsoft business model and costs the company great losses. It seems the remotest possible that piracy becomes a friend to Microsoft. However, this is true. First of all, piracy does not always mean revenue loss for Microsoft. In some low-income countries, most people cannot afford expensive software licenses. Even though there is no piracy, the poor people still won't be able to be paying customers to Microsoft. So strictly prohibiting software piracy does not necessarily add new customers to Microsoft. As for those who cannot afford expensive software, Microsoft basically has two options. Either can they proactively strengthen anti-piracy policy thus push the users over to low-cost / free-of-charge alternative software solutions. Or can they tolerate piracy to some extent in order to foster potential customers and thwart competition. The unique cost structure of software industry allows Microsoft to go for the second option without incurring additional cost. Unlike other physical goods, making a software copy almost costs nothing. More importantly, piracy generally does more harm to Microsoft competitors than Microsoft. This is because piracy takes out price from the equation during the process that consumers pick up software. For instance, consumers may choose low-cost or free-of-charge word processor over the high-price Microsoft Office Suite in piracy-free markets. In piracy prevailing markets, everything costs the same and Microsoft software becomes the easy choice. Without price as a key differentiator, Microsoft competitors are more vulnerable to piracy. In summary, piracy is paradoxically both a enemy and a friend to Microsoft. It has been well known about the enemy side. However, it is equally important to understand that piracy can be a friend to Microsoft under some circumstances.