Hello Microsoft, listen.

Hello?

Is that Microsoft?

Good. Do yourself a huge favour.

Remove your "AppComparison" app from the Google Play Store ASAP.

You ain't doing your fledging Mobile OS any commendable good with it.

In actual fact, you're exposing yourself to more scorn as the app serves to reveal the chasm of an app gap between your OS and Android. In so doing, it achieves a counter-objective. As users find out that a good number of their favourite apps are not on your OS and the alternatives your app proffer are not as useful, you end up losing prospective customers who may have been swayed to make the switch as a result of your swashbuckling "tear rubber" Windows 10 Mobile.

Your app does not serve you as you may have believed. You only try such shenanigans when you've upped the tempo of closing the app gap and can measure up with strong and better alternatives.

You haven't got that yet. Please, for your own mobile salvation.

Don't be like MTN oo! Or Nokia. Or Blackberry.

Listen.

Have a nice day.

Cheers.

Google's Doodle on Nigeria's 54th

This is us.

Whether we feel insulted or slighted, it is us. It doesn't pretend to mingle with the flashy dazzle and drums rollout high up there in different city capitals and Abuja where the paparazzi tumble one over the other to get those exclusive front-page winner pics that conspire to deceive the world that the oil boom really glitters around this resource endowed nation. Naaah. The doodle leaves all those for the soft-sell Decepticons.

Rather, the doodle elects to reflect the life of the hussle that defines the true Nigerian spirit. Across the country, those who still can, will fly the flag or don dresses with our national colours and whisper some words of prayer for the country, mixed with the legendary "Happy New Month" tradition while enduring the hassles that come with public transportation in one of the tripartite means so depicted.

And the best part? They smile through it all. Fela may be remembered in all these, for better than most, contemporaries and all, he best captured the Nigerian: SUFFERIN' AND SMILIN'.

That is us. For the 54th time.