The reason for the "stop whining" thing is possibly that many proponents of Android are saying, more or less, that "normal people" should choose a device based

The reason for the "stop whining" thing is possibly that many proponents of Android are saying, more or less, that "normal people" should choose a device based on what they think are the important criteria instead of what the "normal people" themselves think is important. It's pretty elitist, and also missing the rather important point that a device's popularity is only partly based on its technical and ideological properties. Either way it'll be interesting to see what we end up with in a few years. Hopefully Android and whatever Microsoft comes up with will prove to be serious contenders so that we don't stagnate a la IE.