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It is apparent that you have not seen the episode of South Park about the HumanCentiPad. If you get your choice of positions, I suggest that you be first, trust me on this one. As for your license to use an operating system. You agreed to a lot of stuff that you cannot do and that they can do. I saved you the time and effort of searching for Apple's agreements http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/ . Enjoy and remember, foods that you eat may not be agreeable with others.

It might be impossible at $5 for an unknown, sure.

Then again, maybe at $1.29 it wouldn't be: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bed-intruder-song-feat.-kelly/id386478006
(the 'bed intruder mashup' has sold over 100k copies, making the unknown original artist and the mashup artists a combined $100,000)

THAT'S THE POINT OF THE INTERNET - COST OF ENTRY IS NEARLY ZERO.

You can argue all day that the 'middlemen' provide a service, winnowing the 99.9% crap artists so the rest of us don't have to. To some degree you'd be right, but then again these middlemen brought us Dane Cook (not funny), Creed (not talented), and Roseanne Barr (neither funny nor talented) - so what 'service' are they providing again to justify their MASSIVE financial parasitism in the middle of the producer/consumer chain?

Thanks, I'll cheerfully crowdsource my preferences among friends that agree and enjoy the trickle of talent we find for a minimal investment of $.

Not as creepy as them writing, hosting, and live comment streaming his "main" obituary. http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

Oh yeah.

When was the last time you have seen a control with 5 buttons?

This has only 4 buttons. I got a new 19" HDTV for Christmas that I put up in my bedroom, and my wife wanted to be able to watch NetFlix, so I got an Apple TV yesterday. It works o.k., but I haven't tried streaming from a computer yet, so I'm not sure how good it is with HD streaming.

No OS is as secure as possible out-of-the-box oem stock. Even Apple has guides for further security hardening -> http://www.apple.com/support/security/guides/ , as does Linux also -> http://www.puschitz.com/SecuringLinux.shtml

* That "all said & aside"? See my subject-line & my last post... you didn't answer the question on IF there are guides for securing ANDROID better than oem stock?

APK

P.S.=> I'll be waiting on that answer... lol!

... apk

Let me know when you're able to train your technophobe mom on using Photoshop to lengthen people's noses and stretching their chins, and when you're able to convince your sexting teenage cousin that it's not kosher throwing pictures of everyone up everywhere.

Funny enough, iOS users have this little app called "Fat Booth" which will handle both issues above as it is exceptionally easy to use and "fun", apparently. I'm sure there's an equivalent for Android out there as well. No computers even needed.

For the teenagers, the more off pictures, the better. If we could convince them at the same time to tag them with funny names, it'd resolve itself quickly.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, practically speaking, it's not going to happen. That genie is already out of its bottle. We need to start from the fundamental assumption that the data is out there and will be collected, and figure out from that what we need to do.

Just a few users can poison the well pretty handily, at least for a targeted set of subjects. Once the integrity of the DB goes low enough, it becomes essentially useless.

Android people tend to hate it when the iPod Touch or iPad are brought up and conflated with the iPhone (even though Apple people tend to view iPhone + iPad + iPod Touch as a single platform).

I'm not sure I'm an "Android person," but the reason I dislike it when it's brought up is because it doesn't matter all that much and it's more of a distraction.

Take Q3 2011 as an example. According to Gartner, there were 60 million Android phones shipped and 17 million iPhones shipped. "But this doesn't include iPod touches and iPads!" you shriek. Fair enough--let's include them.

According to Apple, they shipped 11 million iPads and 6.62 million iPods. Now let's assume, just for laughs, that all of those were iPod touches. That's right, Apple didn't sell a single iPod shuffle or iPod nano. That ups Apple's iOS sales to 35 million--more than double the iPhone reference. But it's still a little more than half the Android phone sales. And that's making a pretty big assumption about iPod touch sales.

Let's try to figure out Android tablet sales. According to IDC, Apple had about 61% of the market with 11 million iPads. Android had about 32%. Doing a little math, that means about 6 million Android tablets. So we have 66 million Android phone and tablet sales versus 28 million iPhone & iPad sales.

That's what I mean by a "distraction." They just use this to try to discredit the original report.

iPhone web apps do use webkit to render the UI though. Are web apps too slow to be usable as a result of this? Did users complain that WebOS was too slow? And if so, was it really slow because of webkit? This article clearly blames the hardware rather than the software, stating that WebOS itself ran twice as fast on iPad level hardware. And if WebOS was too slow to be usable, then how come everyone raved about it once they dropped the price? Very few people are so enthusiastic about platforms that are so "fatally flawed". Was it all just marketing hubris?

There's a book by Roger L. Martin called Fixing The Game which argues that the problem with large businesses today is that they are focused on the expectation market--maximizing shareholder value--as opposed to the real market--making good products and increasing customer satisfaction. For example, Enron was so focused on shareholder value that they manipulated revenues to increase stock price, while Apple was so focused on products that Steve Jobs was infamously dismissive the importance of his company's shareholders and joked that the one thing that kept him up at night was shareholder meetings.

You can import a Powerpoint or a PDF (there are more formats as well) and present on an iPad - everything you do gets recorded - then you can export to MP4 or YouTube. Obviously, you need to convince the lecturer to use it ;-) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/explain-everything/id431493086?ls=1&mt=8 There are highlighters, a laser pointer - you can also save the whole lecture as a PDF (more or less - it takes screenshots of your slides).

iPhone 4S - Technically Yes, actually NO. The modem will do both, however is locked out of the factory to a carrier and can't be changed. Plus, Sprint and Verizon only allows phones they sell on their network.

My iPhone 4S isn't locked to any carrier, I bought it unlocked from Apple. How much stupidity is one required to correct in a single thread?

quite a lot obviously, I'm not even from USA but I can tell you that no, you can't just pop a sim into your unlocked bought iphone4s and have it work on a cdma network, for it to work on that network it would need to be carrier locked and the carrier would have needed to sold you it.

I bet american carriers just hate that sim-cards even exist. otherwise they could just sell all phones. that's perhaps even carrying weight behind choice to keep using cdma.

iPhone 4S - Technically Yes, actually NO. The modem will do both, however is locked out of the factory to a carrier and can't be changed. Plus, Sprint and Verizon only allows phones they sell on their network.

My iPhone 4S isn't locked to any carrier, I bought it unlocked from Apple. How much stupidity is one required to correct in a single thread?

one phone for all bands? so you can get the phone and use it on any network with have to buy a ATT or sprint one like the iphone. No having the phone locked to the carrier you choose.

My iPhone 4S works with any carrier...

No. The iPhone 4S can work with any carrier in general, for the most part. A specific one cannot though, since there is a GSM model and a CDMA model. You either have the GSM or CDMA model in one phone, not both. You could however own both models...

Don't correct me when you clearly don't know what you're talking about and read the specification.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id448457090?mt=12

It is free to everyone.

This page asserts that "Xcode 4 is a free download for all members of the iOS and Mac Developer Programs.", continuing "Sign in to your account to begin the download." and according to Apple, an account costs 99$/year.

Maybe I am missing something big here, for example "free" meaning "free" as in "free beer if you buy a subscription", but I have since suggested installing Debian. Proper package management makes it vastly easier to install and develop software.

This page asserts that "Xcode 4 is a free download for all members of the iOS and Mac Developer Programs.", continuing "Sign in to your account to begin the download." and according to Apple, an account costs 99$/year.

Maybe I am missing something big here, for example "free" meaning "free" as in "free beer if you buy a subscription", but I have since suggested installing Debian. Proper package management makes it vastly easier to install and develop software.

This is exactly the design scenario for Podcast Publisher and Podcast Library.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/features/all.html#podcasting

While it can take advantage of a whole cluster of servers, it can also run (albeit more slowly) on a single Core i7 Mini Server. For more detailed docs, see:

https://help.apple.com/advancedserveradmin/mac/10.7/#apdEDF248EC-ED8E-473E-8166-E7D0B2A854D7

It's in use at lots of universities and some K-12 schools.

Hope this helps.

--Paul

This is exactly the design scenario for Podcast Publisher and Podcast Library.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/features/all.html#podcasting

While it can take advantage of a whole cluster of servers, it can also run (albeit more slowly) on a single Core i7 Mini Server. For more detailed docs, see:

https://help.apple.com/advancedserveradmin/mac/10.7/#apdEDF248EC-ED8E-473E-8166-E7D0B2A854D7

It's in use at lots of universities and some K-12 schools.

Hope this helps.

--Paul

If you're using a reasonable browser, or a reasonable operating system package, PDFs should load very quickly.

The Norton Snap QR Code reader for iPhone and Android will show you the expanded URL and give you the site's rating before navigating to it.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.symantec.norton.snap
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/norton-snap-qr-code-reader/id471928808?mt=8

I use a free implementation of the Stanfard PwdHash algorithm for the Mac called Locksmith (here on the app store). There are also websites that implement PwdHash, and even a Firefox add-on. By changing one master password, all the passwords I generate will automatically be changed when I regenerate them.

The QR scanner app that I use has an option to show the URL before going to it which seems like a good approach, though it's not on by default. Seems like having the a such an option be the default would be a good first step, perhaps with a straight through exception for sites already visited.

Even app developers realize sometimes people aren't willing to pay a dollar for a piece of shit app. Which is why they change how they do things and release a "free" version supported by ads.

Wouldn't that be cool, Kindle and Nook on one device?

Yes, it would! Why won't someone make a device like that? Oh wait, there is one!

Nook for iPad
Kindle for iPad

Wouldn't that be cool, Kindle and Nook on one device?

Yes, it would! Why won't someone make a device like that? Oh wait, there is one!

Nook for iPad
Kindle for iPad

Most of what you said I can agree with (or at least concede) but:

This meme has been poked down a couple times. Conventional wisdom is that they are comparably priced with other similar hardware. I'm sure I could find an example and you could find a counter-example. One big difference is that apple only plays in the higher-end of the market, so you'll never find a barebones mac that could compare to a barebones PC.

No. You clearly have not done price comparisons, either recently, or ever. I did one just today, for someone essentially making the same claim as you, in another thread on this same story. Apple computers are very consistently around 90 to 100% more expensive than a typical PC with identical components. It can vary as much as 50-150%, but the disparity is usually greater the higher up the price scale you go.

Here's the example I gave earlier: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215180
$629 Acer laptop with all the same specs as its $1,199 Macbook Pro counterpart. http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MD313LL/A?select=select&product=MD313LL%2FA

Pick any computer in their store there, and I'd bet you good money I can find you the same 50% price reduction on an equivalent PC from a reputable vendor.

They advertise one year 'complimentary support', as perfectly illustrated on their store pages for AppleCare.

let's try a point-for-point.

They feel like Fisher Price built them

I respect your opinion, but most people feel that MacBooks set the bar for superior build quality.

They are not powerful

I'm surprised by this statement. They're built on the same current-generation intel chips as other computers. I've never had any power issues. Some people hit a ceiling when playing powerful video games, but is this any different than on other similarly specced windows computer?

They cost too much.

This meme has been poked down a couple times. Conventional wisdom is that they are comparably priced with other similar hardware. I'm sure I could find an example and you could find a counter-example. One big difference is that apple only plays in the higher-end of the market, so you'll never find a barebones mac that could compare to a barebones PC.

They are pretty useless.

Examples? My computer does everything I need. The biggest limitation, oddly enough, is that there's no IE for mac, so I can't access the online tools for my office (share point, time card system). For this I run a virtualized windows set up. This speaks to the prior point - my computer is powerful enough to run the mac OS and a virtualized win 7.

And some of us like real buttons, over your useless touchscreen/touchpad controls.

That's cool. People have very specific preferences about their desired input methods, it's a feel thing. Although I wonder how you input into a windows notebook. Perhaps you use a USB or wireless mouse? To be fair, those work on my macbook as well.

Yea, touch pads don't work to well. Nothing Capacitive does.

personal preference I guess, but I have had the opposite experience with MacBooks. in general, track pads are a mixed bag for sure, capacitive especially.

Also, over 80% relative humidity, warranty is void.

not much experience with this one. Is it different than dell or HP? do they warrantee specifically for high-humidity environments? To be fair, the most humid city in the US has an average humidity of 79.1%... it's probably funny coincidence that this is just below the 80% number you cite. But obviously this wouldn't apply in the amazon... Also to be fair, apple specs the computer at max 90%RH.

And doesn't require Windows and/or OSX to activate.

Do Windows Phone or iPhone require a desktop computer? That's news to me.

I don't know anything about the Windows Phone, but as far as I know, the iTunes desktop application (and a credit card) is required for activating an iPhone:

http://store.apple.com/us/help/iphone#carrier_info

Activation

Activating and syncing your iPhone is simple. Just download the latest version of iTunes, connect to your computer, and iTunes will guide you through the simple process of syncing content such as music, video, bookmarks, and contacts.

Activation requirements

You need an Internet connection and the current version of iTunes to activate iPhone. You can download iTunes for free for Mac or PC. You also need to create an Apple ID if you don't already have one. An Apple ID account allows you to preview and buy music, TV shows, movies, applications, games, and more so that you can enjoy them on your iPhone. While this account is free, a credit card is required for setup. Your card is not charged by Apple until you make a purchase from the iTunes Store or App Store.

AppleCare+ for iPhone extends repair coverage and technical support to two years from the original purchase date of your iPhone and adds coverage for up to two incidents of accidental damage due to handling, each subject to a $49 service fee.

Which means that after you pay Extra for the AppleCare Plus on your iPhone, you still have to pay $49 if you break it... AND you only get that super discounted price of $49 twice. What kind of extended warranty is that?

Apple is being fined because Italy feels that Apple doesn't make it explicitly clear to Italians that Apple abides with Italian consumer codes that in Italy, Apple warranties last 2 years instead of their standard 1 year. Italy feels that some consumers may have purchased AppleCare when they didn't need to purchase it. AppleCare increases the coverage terms and time period. On the English version it seems clear but since I don't read Italianvery well, I don't know if it is clear on the Italian version. Also I don't know if Apple has recently changed their pages.

Apple is being fined because Italy feels that Apple doesn't make it explicitly clear to Italians that Apple abides with Italian consumer codes that in Italy, Apple warranties last 2 years instead of their standard 1 year. Italy feels that some consumers may have purchased AppleCare when they didn't need to purchase it. AppleCare increases the coverage terms and time period. On the English version it seems clear but since I don't read Italianvery well, I don't know if it is clear on the Italian version. Also I don't know if Apple has recently changed their pages.

The phone prices are in line with higher level Android phones, but there are also a lot more inexpensive Android phones that are literally given away for free on contract.

iPhone 3gs free with contract. Please stop repeating the FUD. Do you agree that I am right, and will you now stop saying lies?

from their ridiculous AppleCare fees

Are you sure? Citation? Applecare is optional, and I don't think it's any different than other plans. Nor square trade. Nor carrier insurance.

higher component prices (like battery replacement)

Umm, citation? I don't know how much it costs to replace an iPhone battery, but since they last more than 3 years I'm not sure if anybody does it. Also, I'm not sure the cost of replacing a Droid battery, for instance. Do you have a quote? Thanks for clarifying. We have a deal, right? If I have corrected your knowledge, then you must not repeat FUD. deal?

Commodore 64 on the iPhone/iPad has had BASIC for some time...

I was also going to suggest PyGame. I don't know a whole lot about it, but I do know that Python is a great programming language for writing small to medium size programs quickly. It's also relatively easy to learn. I also know that PyGame has a thriving community, and even a zine dedicated to it.

Also, all of the lectures for Harvard Extension's 3D graphics programming class are online for free:

        http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/csci-e-234-introduction-to/id428958018

It's a bit mathematical, but nothing beyond what a smart high school student can handle. IIRC, however, it assumes some knowledge of C. It's probably worth having the students watch these lectures anyway--at least for the ones who are interested in doing so.

|>ouglas

Is there some fundamental difference between a PC browser's javascript and a phone browser's javascript?

No, but there is a fundamental difference between a PC browser's DOM and a phone browser's DOM. Phone browsers are less likely to implement certain HTML5 APIs. For example, Apple claims that Safari for iOS doesn't even support <input type="file">, let alone the File API.

Or is there some threshold of code volume beyond which you have to have a connection?

Yes. Phone browsers are likely to impose smaller quotas on the application cache and local storage, as I mentioned in another comment.

"Simply isn't true" - by mSparks43 (757109) on Tuesday December 27, @03:53AM (#38500830) Homepage

Sure it is that nearly NOBODY uses Linux (on PC's & Desktops especially vs. Windows) - see here:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=0

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"The minimum ones are:

DHCP Client
DNS Client
Plug & Play
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

So you still had to rely on Linux to protect you from the Blaster worm then?" - by mSparks43 (757109) on Tuesday December 27, @03:53AM (#38500830) Homepage

What gave you THAT idea? That looks like a quote of mine from an old post about how to get down to a minimum share of services (analogs to *NIX daemons) in Windows (you can do without DNS client too by the by using custom HOSTS for example) where I was talking about how to get down to a MINIMUM SET OF SERVICES in Windows.

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"Windows just isn't built for security" - by mSparks43 (757109) on Tuesday December 27, @03:53AM (#38500830) Homepage

From the vulnerabilities I posted on Linux? I'd have to say the same... ANDROID doesn't do it any favors on THAT account either, plus? Well... I've been doing securing of Windows via custom security-hardening it for decades now & posted that much to you, with user feedback on YEARS of no longer "going down/crashing" OR being "bug infested"... so, you're wrong man!

It's not SHIPPED AS SECURE AS POSSIBLE, but, then again, even SeLinux bearing distros included? Neither is Linux... or MacOS X (even Apple has guides on how to secure it better than by default from the oem Apple) -> http://www.apple.com/support/security/guides/ ...

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"I'm still waiting for you to post a security flaw on android that doesn't require the "user" to install malicious software" - by mSparks43 (757109) on Tuesday December 27, @03:53AM (#38500830) Homepage

I did even better in posting ones regarding FLAWS IN THE ANDROID OS LINUX BASED KERNEL:

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/02/2238205/Serious-Security-Bugs-Found-In-Android-Kernel

AND ones where they can install without user interaction:

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/11/14/0115255/Android-Holes-Allow-Secret-Installation-of-Apps

APK

P.S.=> I still do NOT "get" HOW you can say I relied on Linux in the quote where you put up a quote from myself on minimum services you can get down to in Windows (where DNS client's not really even needed or recommended with larger custom HOSTS files)... that's NOT myself "relying on using Linux" as you stated & I quoted above!

... apk

parent = AC = troll.
But i'll bite:
http://opensource.apple.com/
And Bonjour = Zeroconf, Avahi which also gets installed by the Linux distros and they are amazing tools - just yesterday did some Avahi magic and made a 15year old network Laser printer (DEC LN14) discoverable.
Also Chrome & the Android browser are using Apple's WebKit (forked from KHTML, open source and downloadable from the above link).
 

I guess I'll chip in with Basic for iPhone/iPad/iPod

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/basic/id362411238?mt=8
http://www.misoft.com/

Do you realize how bad BASIC would be on a phone? No objects, so an API for dealing with a DOM would have to represent everything as a string. No callbacks, so dealing with an event-driven environment would not work well. BASIC would have to be extended substantially (essentially up to the VB level) to be usable at all. At that point, you'd have something that does what Javascript does, but lamer.

There is a BASIC for the iPhone. It emulates a green-screen terminal running BASIC. So there.

The entire basis for this slashdot article is a Y-Combinator blog post from a poster with 3 Karma with 4 comments from 7 hours ago lamenting that there's no full package for developing for phones produced by the OS vendors. The "Boot to BASIC" thing is a retrocon issue more appropriately stated "and we wore onions on our belts" (a sin of which I am also guilty). While I applaud the /. rapid response on this critical issue the underlying assumption that these things don't exist is simply untrue. You'll find the Android SDK here. If you prefer an easier install - especially if developing for nVidia Tegra (but not exclusively) you will find that here. The equivalent iOS version is here. If you must have it, the Windows Phone SDK can be found here.

And yes, all of these things are for developing the app on a PC and deploying and testing on a phone or tablet. Much like the designers of landing gear for the 787 don't machine their prototypes out on the tarmac at Boeing field like their progenitors did, mobile app designers now prefer sitting in a comfortable workstation with a comfortable chair with decent compile times, multiple monitors, a reasonable keyboard and mouse, printing and debugging support rather than developing software on the device itself.

Booting to BASIC (or as was the case on the IBM 5100, APL) was very useful at that time because there were no apps - in some cases no media reader to store or load apps if you could get them on media. We got our apps by buying magazines or such, and manually typing the code in and debugging the typos. That day is long gone, and that's a good thing. Even Windows Phone has thousands of apps and a publicly available SDK - though for me the cyanogen and Android route would be more fun.

Now how did this manage to hit the front page of /.? I smell a rat.

I have done a few small apps using it.

Most of these can be solved if IT is willing to actively engage their users and try to help them. Here are a few examples of how we've addressed the issues you've pointed out. Nothing is perfect but we're trying to work with our users. Some people can be tough to work with, but if you genuinely want to help them I find most people receptive. Remember that a big part of our job as IT is customer service.

1. We use HotSpot printing from Ricoh. Just e-mail the document, walk to MFP and choose the file to release.

2. Specify a password for AirPlay on your AppleTV so other people can't send video

3. Check out Volume Purchasing and MDM platforms like Air-Watch or MobileIron.

4. You can not save your iTunes password on an iPad, it's not possible.

I've heard a lot of people say "Well why do you NEED an iPad". I honestly never understood the need for an iPad either, until I was given one. After spending some time with it, I think it's a great tool and almost indispensable now. What if we turned it around - tell me why users shouldn't be able to use their iOS devices, given that it's been proven that they can be deployed safely and effectively by using the appropriate procedures and management tools.

No user changeable battery. I push my phone quite hard and although battery life is better than what my friend's iPhone seems to get eventually that battery will wear out, and I want to be able to change it.

Are you talking about phones or tablets? Because the Asus Transformer (your pick) does not have a user replaceable battery. If you have AppleCare, you get free battery replacement for two years from Apple for the iPad, and after that it costs $99.

No SD card, and I need iTunes just to access the damn thing. The amount Apple charges for an extra 16GB is outrageous, more than I can get a 64GB SD card for.

Agreed. This is annoying, and apparently a trend for many products. You can't browse a Canon DSLR with Finder either. However, it appears linux has a solution. Not sure how long it will take for this to make its way to Windows, but it should eventually.

Lack of multitasking. I often want to copy/paste from the browser to Colornote or an email but on iOS you have to close each app before going to the other one. There are no background apps either, for instance I use a GPS logger while I am taking photos on my DSLR so I can geotag them later and it does it quietly while I can look at maps etc. without closing it.

Complete bullshit. I multitask all the time on the iPad. Skype runs in the background, happily draining the crap out the battery, and receives calls/chats while I'm doing something else. So does Vtok, which I use for gmail.

Poor screen. The iPad 2 screen is only 1024x768, too small for web browsing IMHO. I upgraded my old Thinkpad laptop because the screen was only 1024 pixels wide and would never want to go back to anything under 1280 now. My 12.5" Let's Note is 1400 pixels which seems to be about the right DPI.

The screen isn't poor. Far from it, actually, because it is an IPS display. It's better than a typical laptop screen. But yes, the resolution is low. I have mixed feelings about it. It does make things a bit crowded for web browsing and such, but I think a higher resolution would make the text much harder to read on a small screen. Your 12.5" screen comparison is almost 3" larger than the iPad. 1024 pixels is perfectly sufficient for movies and looking at pictures, though.

Expensive accessories and peripherals. Apple charges silly money and seem to be keeping official 3rd party prices high too.

So don't buy them. Seriously, why do you need them? I don't use any peripherals for the iPad. It works fine. The only thing I have considered is a keyboard, but any bluetooth keyboard should suffice. You don't need to buy that from Apple.

Page display in the browser. Android has reformatted pages since day one to make them readable on a phone screen, but iOS doesn't seem to do it.

No idea what you are talking about. Websites need to have a mobile stylesheet. If they do, Safari works just as well whatever Android has (Chrome?). If you mean that Android intentionally reformats pages that don't have a mobile layout, that is indeed a novel feature.

They are congenitally incapable of playing trombones

Not anymore! There's an app for that!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibone-the-pocket-trombone/id306629300?mt=8

I just went straight to Apple. http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q411datasum.pdf

For App Store revenue I would expect that revenue would be their intake rather than including the portion that goes to developers. If this is an incorrect understanding of their data, then my analysis would be off, but such information does not appear to be easily available. The problem I've seen with looking for numbers outside of apple, is that in many cases people will group multiple lines of business related to hardware sales (sometimes included iPhone software for example in iPhone revenue). Also, again, what you are linking are pure revenue numbers, not profit numbers.

After digging some more however, it may appear that they are listing revenue of total sales on the store rather than just the portion that is due them, though it is hard to tell for sure. From http://gigaom.com/2010/01/12/the-apple-app-store-economy/ the 2010 numbers were about 3 billion a year or 750 million in revenue per quarter from just iPhone apps. From http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/itunes-sells-6-billion-songs-and-other-fun-stats-from-the-philnote/ it appears that they sell about two billion songs a year or 500 million a quarter. Throw in some videos and it does start looking like perhaps you are correct that the revenue reporting is done as a store rather than a service provider. (Apple takes the money and then pays the vendor instead of taking payment on behalf of the vendor and taking their cut out of it as revenue, which is what I was expecting for a setup like that.) As a comparison, Visa doesn't list revenue equal to all the transactions that occur on their network, but rather the fee they collect for processing the transactions, which was the reason I believed this to be the case without digging further in to it.

That all said, while it significantly weakens one argument towards my initial claim that they would never give up the lock in, they still do not have a corporate history of breaking from lock in. Also, 10% revenue which would still map fairly close to 10% profit (looking just at the iPod and iPad and associated media side of things since Desktop sales wouldn't really be impacted as they aren't currently locked to iTunes) is still not something to scoff at giving up. It makes it more possible that a business motivator would come up to unlock, but still seems like it would be a significant cost. Honestly, their better bet at that point might be to open up iTunes music and video to Android which I think would be a more likely move for Apple if it started going that way.

No mention of FreeBSD anywhere in there! Maybe you can find it?

http://opensource.apple.com/

Dipshit.

Did you click it? I did. It sent me to http://trailers.apple.com/ and didn't download anything.

Probably I need the QuickTime plugin. Screw that, I'm not installing QuickTime.

In FF, use the User Agent Switcher add-on to set the user agent to "QuickTime/7.6.2", or go to about:config and create a general.useragent.override String with a value of "QuickTime/7.6.2". Once the user agent is set, right-click and save link as.