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If you're going to make a claim like that, you might want to spare thirty seconds to check out the actual web sites.

US Site: No picture scaling UK Site: Picture scales to hide the bottom of the page.

Interestingly, it seems that every country site for Apple except the US one does the picture scaling.

If you're going to make a claim like that, you might want to spare thirty seconds to check out the actual web sites.

US Site: No picture scaling
UK Site: Picture scales to hide the bottom of the page. I had to turn my monitor on its side, making it 1920 pixels tall, in order to get the notice to appear.

I really don't understand how some people think they can get away with such obvious lies on the internet. Do they really think that not a single person will bother to check?

following the links above I have to scroll *farther* to see the bottom of the page on the US site. damage control, geo-location or ???

If you're going to make a claim like that, you might want to spare thirty seconds to check out the actual web sites.

US Site: No picture scaling
UK Site: Picture scales to hide the bottom of the page. I had to turn my monitor on its side, making it 1920 pixels tall, in order to get the notice to appear.

I really don't understand how some people think they can get away with such obvious lies on the internet. Do they really think that not a single person will bother to check?

country-based tld's are only there because of nationalism, every country wanted one...

Nope. Take a look at, say, Apple. Here's http://apple.com - familiar, right? Here, on the other hand, is http://apple.co.uk - rather different. Within the UK, Apple Design have the rights to use it. Within the US, it's Apple Inc. that have the right. This isn't a bug or nationalism, it's a feature. I like location-specific URLs. I don't use google.com for example, I use google.co.uk.

Cheers,
Ian

An intelligent naming system should have intelligent names:

• Ebay, not http://www.ebay.com.au/ [ebay.com.au]
• Apple, not http://www.apple.co.uk/ [apple.co.uk]
• Microsoft, not http://kb.microsoft.com.us/ [microsoft.com.us]

Flame away.

I disagree. There's no way we can get everyone to agree that the name "Apple" should point to a machine serving web-pages for the company Apple. There's plenty of other alternatives that are just as sensible. Such as that record-company by the Beatles, the worlds greatest web-resource for apple-farming and apple-recipes, or a web-site promoting a book about how apples improve your health, or whatever... And even if most people currently would agree that the name "Apple" should be owned by the company Apple, this may not be true in 100 years.

Having zero, or only a few top-level domains, is a recipe for quarrels, infighting, lawsuits, and whatever. There's no reason to advocate a "solution" that will guarantee trouble. Instead, NOBODY should get the special treatment. Geocities.com had the right idea with their district/streetname/number pathnames. At least for most people, these are easier to remember than ip-numbers (at least IPv6), and is equally fair towards everyone. Similarly, we should open up just about every possible TLD. 2-letter TLDs are currently reserved for countries. Allowing 0-letter or 1-letter TLDs would be unfair, as there are only a very limited supply. But three, four, five, six, and seven letter TLDs are all available. When people want to register a name, such as e.g. "coke", they get a random TLD, e.g. "coke.c9xq9". If they are not happy, they can try again. The important thing is that nobody will be allowed to ask specially for e.g. ".com", or ".xxx", and that there will be too many TLDs for it to be practical for any company to own them all (including microsoft).

What I don't understand is why Apple doesn't sue Apple and Apple for blatant use of Illustrations in their product packaging!

Next they will go after apple.co.uk.

Damn, I went to that site to buy a G4 Powerbook, but instead of getting the Apple Store, UK, I'm told to go to Microsoft for further support.

Shame that Aussie guy didn't hold the rights to apple.com.au - to point it to microsoft.com.au

Damn, I went to that site to buy a G4 Powerbook, but instead of getting the Apple Store, UK, I'm told to go to Microsoft for further support.

Shame that Aussie guy didn't hold the rights to apple.com.au - to point it to microsoft.com.au

Non-UK Mac users might not have realised this, but the Apple we know doesn't own www.apple.co.uk. Don't ask me how the agency that does has got away with it, but it's been this way for some time.

Apple Computer do not have the domain www.apple.co.uk

It is owned by a UK graphics design company called Apple. They have a perfectly legitimate right to the name (but I bet it pisses Apple off a bit :P ).