I guess I tend to agree with the posters who are screaming to have this article marked as flamebait, but mostly because some people, like yourself, deliberately miss the point. The author has some anecdotes for why an unarguably cheaper solution works for him. All you have done is list some similarly anecdotal but otherwise different situations you have something that woks for you.

Because your situation is different, your responses to his "points" are actually irrelevant, he's already preempted you by giving *his* reasons why his solution is better in *his* circumstance.

For example you say that

. Well if I don't use email, my pen and paper is better than your iPad, as it has all the functionality I use, weighs less, costs less and never runs out of batteries.

The T30 he refers to 'only' weighs twice what the iPad 1 does, (not 3-4 times), and the author already made that point saying "look what else you get for that extra pound of weight".

You either misunderstand multitasking, or just didn't pay attention to what he did when he was. He wasn't talking about opening a dozen windows that "your are (sic) using ONE AND ONLY ONE AT THIS EXACT MOMENT", he was talking about streaming a radio service in one window whilst working in another.

hoggoth and others have dealt with most of the points you've made anyway, but responding to the authors' "here are five reasons A works better than B for C" article by saying "A is worse than B for C because I don't do C" isn't useful.

Agreed with Weaselmancer... There was no DRM in the Amiga OS.

The ROM was licensed and, yes, to run an emulator you are supposed to buy a license. As for the custom chips, to say it is DRM has the argument the wrong way around. The software was written for that hardware - you seem to suggest that the hardware was made to make the software hard to copy.

My Ubuntu desktop has been compiled for some custom hardware called the 'x86 instruction set', but I wouldn't say that that was DRM.