Totally agree with you. The last thing BB should do is get rid of their assets. Besides, UI-wise, BBOS is already quite close to android, and very open to android apps: develop your app for android, convert it trivially to a BB app with the SDK tools and you're done.

My main gripe as a dev. regarding BB is the same as for Bada (Tizen ancestor): no SDK on linux (which also means BSD). It's a minor point though.

Nah, the real problem with BB is its image outside its user base. I bet most people associate BB with tiny devices with tiny keyboard, while people think of Apple and Android stuff as cool, fashionable. Their latest product sports touch screens and perhaps more, but it will take time for the public to pick it up.

> Let's cheerlead the democritisation

I think you meant democratisation, or was there some subtle reference to a [famous greek philosopher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demokritos)?

I think there are two different points which kind of render the comparison difficult to make:

- html5 games are defacto multiplatforms, since tbey must support all the popular browsers, and underlying systems (mobiles, tablets, PCs...). Compare this with the Wintel supremacy of early RTS days,

- This is technology preview material, available to a potentially very large audience. I don't think RTS did get such exposure during their development, especially during the eary days, when people wanted to disclose as little as possible to the listening competition in the gaming news channels (nainly magazines).

So that intelligence would be able to feel proud of something? That's a very human concept.

God cannot feel pride, for that would imply the possibility of failure. God is beyond most human emotions, probably all, for that reason: our emotions imply their opposites, while for God, there are no alternatives other than what is -- which is by definition perfect.

Mind you, I'm an atheist, so this is just my understanding of the argument.

But that's assuming that intelligence fit the definition of a unique, christian like perfect god. Why would it have to be? Isn't it limiting the scope unecessarily?

Absolutely. Christianity is just one possible frame.

Well, I was just explaining why I used the word beauty.

Maybe whatever created these gears was being tortured by an evil master until it made something satisfactory.

I really can't say for sure...

> if we were designed by something, why would the designer not use the optimal leg designs for all the jumping bugs?

Because:

- the designer is not that clever,

- the designer likes to play with its creatures,

- the designer is not alone,

- the designer forgot to update its creations,

- or simply because she does not care.

Yes, my personal pet theory is that something really smart made a 3D printer-like life machine, and then gave it to thousands of other not-so-smart individuals - who then came up with all these crazy and inconsistent life forms on Earth.

Some designed Bengal Tigers, and others designed Aye Ayes.

I guess everyone would like to have a chat with the one who came up with the monkey idea.