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I guess that explains all the soda cans around my room after a long coding session.

I just realized that at some point in my 30s, I'll get a kick out of playing a version of Halo rewritten in Javascript.

When searching for apps, do you guys usually immediately jump through the whole list? This is something I never do.

However, I will look at apps one at a time and decide which one is best. On iOS 5 this meant clicking on each list item one by one, waiting (forever) for the app page to load, and eventually picking one. Allowing me to browse through apps one at a time and see all the information I need without ever leaving the screen seems like it would encourage discovery, not hurt it. I can even download the app right from the search screen AND I don't get thrown out of the App Store when I start the download so I can just download all the apps I want to try at once. This seems like a huge win to me.

Do other people browse the App Store differently?

If I was running Yahoo today, I'd want all of my employees to have a smart phone, be using it, and be thinking about where computing was headed. Phone and data costs should not be an excuse. And when I say smartphone I mean a REAL smartphone. Having employees using Blackberries isn't helping Yahoo move forward in mobile.

Yes, the networks use different frequency bands. Ostensibly, nobody has yet developed a chip that works on both LTE bands. The iPhone 4S shipped with a chipset that worked with both Verizon and AT&T's 3G bands, so I'm sure somebody is working on the same for LTE. This is just an effect of the technology being newer.

Webkit uses iOS's rendering and compositing libraries to render information on screen. That's why it will never be faster than those libraries.

So the iPhone 5 on AT&T can't use LTE outside of the US because AT&T uses some LTE band nobody else uses. Bit of a bummer, but I wouldn't call it crippled since you can still use 3G voice and data pretty much anywhere in the world. International roaming is actually one of AT&T's few strengths. I'd be more upset if International data wasn't so expensive. At $300 / GB, turning LTE on overseas would just scare me. Hopefully they'll come out with a unified chipset in the future and prices for international data will go down.

Watch the video. That's not native performance. It will never be native performance, because there will always be the layer of the rendering engine between your application and device. The best they'll ever do is "close enough to native that you don't notice", and they're certainly not there yet. And the number of apps is already in the millions? Give me an example of one app out there that's in the same ballpark of quality as the stuff you can find on iOS or even Android.