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The lack of flash support is an issue for me.

But that aside, iOS is also completely closed and that's the real issue. Also, the iphone really was revolutionary when it was released four years ago, but having an iphone 4s now it's just really aggravating in so many ways. The UI just hasn't evolved well enough. Windows phone is in all actuality a better interface and OS. Sure, there's not nearly the number of applications on it right now, but give it two years.

iOS in the mean time has been pretty dead in the water. They've made some minor upgrades to the OS (like finally being able to copy/paste text), but overall it's a muddy and clunky experience compared to metro UI.

And Android is like the cheap copycat of iOS that gives you want you want, but at the cost of it being a pleasant experience. I'm not saying that it's awful, because it's gotten better, but it isn't innovative. Both platforms take strong inspiration from the desktop experience.

So yeah, I'm not a huge fan of iOS. It's aggravating in the way it limits what I can and can't do in terms of productivity. And yeah, a lack of flash really gets in the way. With flash I could have all the functionality of the hundred or so 99 cent apps Apple wants me to buy. The battery life on the 4s is so poor already they can't really say flash would make it that much worse at this point.

I see you have used the word, "collection" to spite me. It isn't collections month.

I'm not against it. It's much more true to LEGO than the Belville sets were. Those were barely LEGO. If you don't remember those then go look them up. These are better. Other than the minifigures and colors, it's LEGO in every other way. It promotes building, creativity, play, and fun, in a way that appeals to girls like other LEGO sets might not.

My wife would never appreciate that if I did it for her, but I would love it! Maybe after our first comes along this summer she'll have a change of heart.

While some of the new niche groups make sense, it's hard to know where the old is supposed to become the new. Which of the tabs is Re-nest? Is it DIY? That doesn't make complete sense. I know that they aren't supposed to be a 1 for 1 transfer, otherwise you wouldn't have killed the brands (which I think was a bad idea).

I just hope that the daily finds won't make it on the main page anymore. Even if I lived in one of the cities (which I don't), I still wouldn't want to see all the stuff from the other cities. That was my daily "skip all this junk that doesn't apply to me."

Also, watch out for too much overlap between the categories. I don't want to see a bunch of stuff on the main page, then see a lot of the same in the Style section, then again in DIY, Homekeeping, Family, Tech, etc. Choose the most appropriate category and leave it at that or your readers will choose to read one sub-section and ignore the rest.

Anyway, I'm not sure if you made the best decision, but I'm here for the ride and I'm not going to rant about hating it or anything. Change is hard to get used to.

@Minuet42 - I agree. It isn't much of a collection, so they really should not mention collecting at all. Collection month is dreaded by a lot of readers, so there's no point in rubbing it our faces the rest of the year with stuff that could clearly be called something else. The same goes for good posts about real collections. They need to save them for collections month because there are people (like me) who hate to see that word here, especially outside of collections month.

It is not collections month, so you are therefore not allowed to make posts about collecting.

Thank you very much. I hate that month and it ruins any posts about collecting for the rest of the year too.

Ooo, nice. Where can I get a genuine cat skin for my cat to sleep on?

"Fugly?" Really? Let's try to sound at least a little professional.

As for the smoke detector, I guess it's alright in a sort of kitschy way.

Holy crap. My wife and I got one of these for her birthday from a parent. I had no clue how much it was "worth". That's insane. Oh well, maybe I'll have two now.