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On the other hand, UAW doesn't bother to mention in their overwork claims that during crunch times Musk has been known to sleep in a sleeping bag at the factory, and has pledged (and at least so far, upheld) to work on any line where any employee gets injured.

Who cares?

Who cares if Musk chooses to sleep in the factory? That doesn't mean the workers aren't being overworked. Musk owns Tesla and is free to set any standard for himself he likes, the workers don't and can't.

Who cares if Musk takes over on the factory line for an injured worker? 1. It's not his job, he shouldn't be there. Solidarity is nice, but he's got to run the company. 2. There. Should. Not. Be. Injuries. On. The. Line. Full stop. No ifs, ands, or buts. The only acceptable target is zero, and the boss stepping in to fill a spot doesn't achieve that.

Your arguments aren't refutations of UAW's points. They highlight them.

Anyone? Okay, fine, I will.

"We have received calls from multiple journalists at different publications, all around the same time," the company wrote on Sunday, "with similar allegations from seemingly similar sources about safety in the Tesla factory."

"Safety is an issue the UAW frequently raises in campaigns it runs against companies, and a topic its organizers have been promoting on social media about Tesla."

Tesla went on to says that such reports ignore safety data from 2017, which it outlined in a handful of data points.

Those points proclaim a 52-percent reduction in “lost time incidents” and 30-percent reduction in “recordable incidents” during the first quarter.

Additionally, the automaker's “total recordable incident rate,” a workplace-safety metric tracked by OSHA, sits at 4.6, while the industry average hovers around 6.7.

Hours worked per employee also fell, according to Tesla's data, with a 60-percent reduction in overtime.

And, concerning pay:

To counter that claim, Musk told employees in a leaked memo that production workers actually earn far more in total compensation—when the value of stock options are included—compared to other automakers.

He pegged that difference at $70,000 to $100,000 per year.

Tesla stock prices are now close to all-time highs, and the company's market capitalization now exceeds those of GM and Ford.

Both sides claims should of course be taken with a big grain of salt. For example, Tesla's argument of stock options is great, and yes, the workers could end up quite well off if Tesla does well. But they don't pay the rent until they vest, and UAW is right that local housing prices are killer. On the other hand, UAW doesn't bother to mention in their overwork claims that during crunch times Musk has been known to sleep in a sleeping bag at the factory, and has pledged (and at least so far, upheld) to work on any line where any employee gets injured.

I'm not saying DSLRs are going away, nor am I saying an iPhone will shoot as well as a DSLR in all conditions, but serious photography CAN be done with an iPhone, as these three magazine covers show.

http://nypost.com/2017/04/15/c...

http://bgr.com/2017/02/17/ipho...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04...

As always, the talent matters more than the tool.

http://bgr.com/2017/06/14/veri... Become a member of FMCA for $50 then sign up using their deal.

You misread him. It isn't that they are " insisting that space exploration be a government monopoly." It is that they couldn't conceive of any for-profit company putting in the long term investment on something that doesn't give an immediate boost to the quarterly reports.

Here is a couple examples:
https://mic.com/articles/2267/...
http://bgr.com/2015/12/03/neil...

“Private enterprise will never lead a space frontier,” Tyson told me in a phone interview. “In all the history of human conduct, it’s as clear to me as day follows night that private enterprise won’t do that, because it’s expensive. It’s dangerous. You have uncertainty and risks, because you’re dealing with things that haven’t been done before. That’s what it means to be on a frontier.”

Imagine a meeting between a space-obsessed entrepreneur and a venture capitalist, Tyson suggested. “We want your investment.” For what? “To go to space.” Why? “We want to put humans on Mars.” How much will it cost? “A lot. People might die.” What’s the return on investment? “Probably nothing in the short term, but later on you’ll make money.”

It’s not a perfect comparison, since the likes of Bezos and Musk have deep enough pockets to fund much of what they want to do, but the larger point remains.

“The government is better suited to these kinds of investments,” Tyson told me. “They have a longer time horizon. They’re not shackled to quarterly reports like you see in a private enterprise.”

They did, back in March. Apparently you were too busy trolling on Slashdot to notice?

http://bgr.com/2017/03/29/ipho...

It was incredibly stupid of him to do that for so long, but before he was Emperor Cheeto , it didn't really matter when all he used it for was Witter.

Well, I guess it really is true. Apple has become too big to be innovative anymore. The Woz quote:

Interestingly enough, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes that Apple’s time as an innovative company may be coming to an end.

Sounds great unless you arrive at the supercharger and find you've got to wait in line for two hours before you can even start to charge.

If you really think about the infrastructure that's going to be needed to cope with peak travel times in our electric-vehicle future, it's really not going to suffice to replace pumps with supercharger stations one-to-one. We'll either need some kind of more careful orchestration (perhaps a reservation system), or else we'll need a much faster turnaround time (achievable with swappable battery packs). Otherwise, we'll need huge amounts of charging capacity that sits idle 90-99% of the time in order to avoid wait times of 6+ hours during times of peak demand.

FTC alleges Qualcomm forced Apple into iPhone LTE chip deals

Basically, Qualcomm has thousands of patents that are required to implement basic wireless standards. They have a lot of key patents relating to CDMA, which Verizon and Sprint use in the US. For example, they made Apple agree to use their modems exclusively for years to get decent rates. For other manufacturers, they threatened to refuse giving Qualcomm's modems (required to work on the CDMA networks) unless the company also used the Snapdragon processors or agreed to not use Basebands from other modems. This is why Apple started by suing Qualcomm, because after they started using Intel modems in some phones Qualcomm started withholding "incentive payments" (essentially pre-agreed upon discounts) which may have totaled a billion dollars.

If Qualcomm just competed under the quality of their products and made the patents available under FRAND terms then there would be no controversy. Instead, manufacturers are tired of Qualcomm using their patents to take unfair advantage of them (either ridiculous non-FRAND terms for standards essential patents, or making them sign exclusivity agreements on phone SoCs/modems in order to get more fair pricing).

Also with a gif of the attack.
http://bgr.com/2017/05/03/goog...

"It starts with an email from a known contact, which says that the person has shared a Google Doc with you. You’re invited to click the link to open, which redirects you to a legitimate Google sign-in page. You’re prompted to select one of your Google accounts (remember: this is all using Google’s normal sign-in system), and then authorize a legit-looking app called “Google Docs” to manage your emails."

"That’s how the scam works: the app called “Google Docs,” which requests permission to read, send and delete emails, isn’t really a Google app. Rather, it’s an app controlled by the hackers. It seems that once it has permission to manage your email, it secretly sends out a bunch of emails to all your contacts, with the same phishing link."

http://bgr.com/2017/04/17/gala...

Old model iPhone smokes the latest androids any way you can measure it. The iphone 7 beats the G8 by more than the G8 beats the previous snapdragon. So rather than leapfrogging the Snapdragon keeps ramming headfirst into the iPhone's rear end.

To be fair there is one spec the new G8 does win on, and that's straightup numberical benchmark using multi-core. it' wins by a small margin. But loses by a factor of 2 on single core processes. Since no one actually uses their phone as a numerical calculation optimizing the multiple cores this spec seems to indicate the snapdragon is not optimized in ways that benefit an actual operating phone.

They probably got more than that. Gamestop sold bundles to try and stop scalping. They've removed a few from their site, but they basically had a switch + zelda, or + splatoon, or + whateverothergame, or +2 games, or you could shell out $640 for the ultimate bundle.

The thinking was that you have a sought-after $50-$60 game, if you force buyers to pay $300 for a system too, they are much less likely to dive in for the quick-and-easy profits off of a single game. Who knows if it worked, since the Switch was going for stupidly high prices on eBay too.

The regulations would be smart to impose some restrictions for vehicles operating with no driver. One of them could a an successful operating history with a driver. Speed limits should also be considered. We may not want driver-less cars on the road doing, say, 40 mph + when there are zero demonstrations of technology being able to do that safely.

Even Tesla, the self proclaimed leader in this technology, is struggling to get the simplest things to work reliably; http://bgr.com/2017/03/02/tesl...

Declining sales seem to indicate otherwise.

Errm, sorry, wrong link: http://bgr.com/2016/12/07/iphone-7-sales-ios-vs-android/ "Explosive sales prove that the iPhone 7’s most controversial feature was a non-issue" - from just a week later.

Declining sales seem to indicate otherwise.

Errm, sorry, wrong link: http://bgr.com/2016/12/07/iphone-7-sales-ios-vs-android/ "Explosive sales prove that the iPhone 7’s most controversial feature was a non-issue" - from just a week later.

Declining sales seem to indicate otherwise.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/31/apple-q1-2017-earnings/ : Same source now admits they were wrong. Oooops.

Declining sales seem to indicate otherwise. Unless you mean "right" in the same vein as our chocolate rations were increased from 30 grams to 24 grams...

Uber executive casually threatens journalist with smear campaign
Uber driver tells MPs: I work 90 hours but still need to claim benefits
Uber is ignoring California rules on self-driving cars, and the government is pissed

I assume, given the 'rampant agendizing(sic)' accusation, you have evidence to refute the above? It would be interesting, as Uber themselves did not refute any of it, nor did they take legal action against anyone printing it.

My job is not safe. I acknowledge that. But some jobs are safe for the forseeable future. Because robots cannot legally do the job. Just because an artificial intelligence is better at diagnosing some medical conditions than human doctors does not mean that the human doctor's job is at risk because most states limit the practice of medicine to doctors who have a license and a doctor has to complete an undergraduate degree program and medical school and residency and pass a license exam. Similarly for lawyers, most states require the practice of the legal profession be limited to licensed attorneys. Just buy a senator or two to get your profession protected. Add the requirement for "a human" to hold your position.

Well that's actually mostly what they are doing.
LTE is plenty fast enough today and will likely be for quite some time however in areas with high density they currently have to use more smaller cells to give everyone decent speeds lets guess 1Gbps to a tower that would allow (ignoring overhead) 100 people on tower to all use 10Mbps simultaneously.

Considering some towers do about half of that now with carrier aggregation I'd think the new ones would do significantly better.
So assuming they manage to bump it up to 10Gbps that would get them up to 1000 people at 10Mbps or 100 at 100Mbps

That should greatly improve reliability in my opinion.
Also this isn't really supposed to be rolling out until 2020 or so if they pickup anything before then it will be 4G all over again with BSing the standard with marketing terms but not providing nearly what was promised.

As for availability verizon and at&t are available most everywhere now and t-moblie for instance is supposed to be getting way better this year alone. http://bgr.com/2017/02/15/t-mo...

He has tweeted at a time he was scheduled to be in a Top Secret meeting. Either he's not attending his meetings, or he's tweeting during them. Either is gross negligence, so which gross negligence is it today?

Just to be clear since some people might have misread your comment as merely accusing Trump of not paying attention.

If he brought his phone into those meetings he was potentially carrying a remote listening device.

Also throughout 2016, there were numerous reports that claimed HTC would stop selling Flagship phones in America completely.

A better graph tells a thousand words:

http://cdn.bgr.com/2013/03/com...

I hear you and appreciate your points. Respectfully, I think you have partially mischaracterised the memory problems on the MacBooks. According to Schiller, it came down not being able to use 32GB of low-power RAM, in order to save battery life. Although he didn't mention it, he means LPDDR RAM. Yes, the current standards are limited to 16GB. http://bgr.com/2016/11/21/macb... https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pr... Mobile Skylake does support 64GB: http://ark.intel.com/compare/8... But it depends on what kind of memory you use - with Apple's new battery technology, memory compression, app nap and other technologies - they could have made that work if thinness was more important to them than performance. You're absolutely right that later Intel chips do support more than 16GB for LPDDR. Likewise, yes - Xeon chips have not gotten faster. But graphics cards have! And I've currently got more solid state storage in my Mac Mini than the Mac Pro supports. Agreed on the chip development, as well, but their operating systems run very slowly on older devices - which is not necessary - it's a design decision. If they used better specs in their devices, this wouldn't be as much of a problem. I have an original iPadit had 256MB of RAM. What were they thinking? (Battery life, mostly.) You couldn't even have two tabs open in a web browser without reloading the whole page. Soyes, their developments DO increase performance, but they USE them to increase profitnot making high-performance, long-term investments for consumers. Just my $0.02.

The current President of the United States is still using his Samsung phone, even after it was reported that he had given up the phone in exchange for a hardened replacement.

That certainly deserves the same censure and punishment as Hillary got for her email server, don't you think so, conservatives?

Well, they sold 1.1 million between June and September of 2016, and that's just a 4-month period. So figure at least 3-4 million total probably. Sounds pretty successful to me, even if the sales are leveling off or declining a bit.

Awareness spiked when someone used the Alexa API to connect their Echo to a talking "Billy Big Mouth" singing bass toy in November.

If I didn't know better, I'd swear it was all an Amazon stealth viral marketing campaign

Did they check the car over much? People have been completely stripping their cars before handing them back, or handing them in with severe accident damage etc.

Depends what performance. Single core, sure, but multi-core they get trounced. App performance seems to depend more on the quality of the app than anything.

Bzzt!. Not according to Daring Fireball.

Um, and also not if the Android in question runs something equal to, or less than, a Snapdragon 821, like several do, including the Pixel.

A fact confirmed by this Test, too...

With dislreports and other aggregation tests, the bloat for download and upload may not be symmetric. So the resulting score might not be as good as it looks.

Paying for a commercial connection? Test for this kind of performance daily and scream as soon as it drops. Otherwise why bother to pay so much?

In the United States and other jurisdictions a home 'customer' user is not expected to run a "server" on their paid for Internet connection. Downloads may be finely tuned to low bloat. But upload may have significant bufferbloat, caps and gradual dropout. For financial reasons, of course.

This upload problem may get to be much worse in the future. More and more services push data from "client" devices in the home or office. Camera phone videos, twitch streams, shared google docs and your home automation spyware upend the upload/download assumptions of last-hop telcos. P2P is impacted now. The highly asymmetric buffering of uploads is detectable using protocols like bittorrent that don't have client-server separation.

Except the 2.7 million people who bought them in the 3rd quarter of this year alone.

By the time you are ready to replace that SE, there won't be a single decent smartphone, iOS or Android, that will have a 3.5 mm Jack. Not a single one. Sorry.

I would tend to bet almost the opposite—that not a single cell phone manufacturer except Samsung will follow Apple's lead by the time you're ready to replace that SE. Here's why:

• Sales of iPhone 7 have lagged behind the iPhone 6s according to multiple reports.
• Apple didn't even manage to pick up very many sales after the Note 7 train wreck. Those sales mostly went to other Android devices.
• iOS continues to lose market share to Android at an alarming rate, because their sales are shrinking while the market grows.
• Other manufacturers are continuing to release new product lines with headphone jacks.

In other words, all evidence strongly suggests that Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack was a mistake, and slumping customer sales are a reaction to what consumers perceive as the long, slow decline of a once-beloved product line. IMO, the only question that remains is whether Apple will double down on stupid or recognize and correct their error in their next design.

According to the analyst quoted in this Slashdot article, as much as 50% of GN7 Owners have, or planned to, switch to an iPhone 7. Considering that means completely changing platforms for the user involved, that's a very high number. Even the "more solid" number of just under 30% is pretty high, considering it's a platform-change.

The iPhone 6s is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, due to the recently-decreased price and increased memory. So it is probably picking-up some budget-conscious iPhone users. But I think the iPhone 7 is still more popular than the 6s. And in fact, it is. So there's another lie of yours disproven by facts...

iOS Marketshare Plummeting: Not according to this article from just a week ago, which states that iPhone 7 Marketshare Growth is the strongest, and overall market share is the highest, in the U.S., and not so bad in other places (e.g. #2 in China, #1 in the U.K.)., than it has been in two years. That sounds like anything but dire sales figures to me...

Other OEMs are continuing to release new phones with headphone jacks: Considering the development and agency-approval timeframes for these products, I'm not surprised. But let's take a look at the next update-cycle, shall we?

So, try harder at your Hater bullshit next time, willya? It was hardly even challenging exposing your bullshit for exactly that.

"Trump was crying like a 2 year old about everything (CROOKED, RIGGED, WAHH) was so unfair"

Check out his tweets from the night Obama beat Romney.
Trump was calling for a march on Washington, to overturn the election.
I particularly like the one where he calls the electoral college "a disaster for democracy"

http://bgr.com/2016/11/09/trum...

For those who don't know, there is already an ongoing class action lawsuit in the works: http://bgr.com/2016/08/31/ipho...

And if you heard something about bendgate or about it being a problem with people who dropped their phones, just know that there has been multiple reported cases of phones that never suffered any physical damages, and that were never put inside tight back pockets and whatnot that also had the defect.

It usually happens overtime. Solder balls from a specific chip gets loose or cracks, which then causes the issue.

Then that is laid SOLELY at the feet of the Contract Manufacturer, or possibly the chip supplier and/or PCB supplier. Those are MANUFACTURING issues. It has NOTHING to do with "Design".

Also funny that the report before that (which had much better results for iOS devices than for any Android phone) didn't get any mention on Slashdot. Of course the math was already rubbish in that one - but that wasn't the reason why there wasn't a story, now was it? http://bgr.com/2016/05/11/android-vs-iphone-stability-study-q1-2016/

For those who don't know, there is already an ongoing class action lawsuit in the works:
http://bgr.com/2016/08/31/ipho...

And if you heard something about bendgate or about it being a problem with people who dropped their phones, just know that there has been multiple reported cases of phones that never suffered any physical damages, and that were never put inside tight back pockets and whatnot that also had the defect.

It usually happens overtime. Solder balls from a specific chip gets loose or cracks, which then causes the issue.

iPhones aren't known to combust

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-i...

I think that you could find reports of any device with l-ion batteries exploding/catching fire.

Maybe you should check those stats...

http://www.independent.co.uk/l...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...
http://www.express.co.uk/life-...

You literally have no idea what you are talking about. I'm surprised someone with such a low ID is spouting such nonsense as fact. It doesn't take 12 hours to wirelessly charge.

http://www.androidauthority.co...
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge battery size: 2600mAh, charging time on WIRED cable: 80 minutes 0-100%
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge battery size: 2600mAh, charging time on Samsung Wireless Qi: 160 minutes 0-100%

http://bgr.com/2016/10/12/ipho...

Just for comparison the iPhone 6s plus (2750mAh which is the closest to the above), it takes 168 minutes to charge 0-100%. So basically it takes roughly an equal amount of time to wirelessly charge an S6 Edge as it does to charge an iPhone 6s plus using the wired charger.

Don't take his word for it

http://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-i...
http://www.cultofmac.com/29186...
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/...
https://www.cnet.com/news/ipho...
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news...
https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/22...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/29/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/30/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...

And those are just the first two pages of Google links. It's not just Apple - all phones do this. All phones with lithium batteries have a chance of entering thermal runaway. It's inherent in the materials. That said, the Note 7 was close to two orders of magnitude above what a consumer device really should be in terms of spontaneous combustion. Still low probability, but too high for the disruptive nature of and heat generating device on an operating aircraft.

Don't take his word for it

http://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-i...
http://www.cultofmac.com/29186...
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/...
https://www.cnet.com/news/ipho...
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news...
https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/22...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/29/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/30/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...

And those are just the first two pages of Google links. It's not just Apple - all phones do this. All phones with lithium batteries have a chance of entering thermal runaway. It's inherent in the materials. That said, the Note 7 was close to two orders of magnitude above what a consumer device really should be in terms of spontaneous combustion. Still low probability, but too high for the disruptive nature of and heat generating device on an operating aircraft.

Don't take his word for it

http://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-i...
http://www.cultofmac.com/29186...
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/...
https://www.cnet.com/news/ipho...
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news...
https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/22...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/29/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/30/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...

And those are just the first two pages of Google links. It's not just Apple - all phones do this. All phones with lithium batteries have a chance of entering thermal runaway. It's inherent in the materials. That said, the Note 7 was close to two orders of magnitude above what a consumer device really should be in terms of spontaneous combustion. Still low probability, but too high for the disruptive nature of and heat generating device on an operating aircraft.

Don't take his word for it

http://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-i...
http://www.cultofmac.com/29186...
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/...
https://www.cnet.com/news/ipho...
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news...
https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/22...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/29/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/30/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...

And those are just the first two pages of Google links. It's not just Apple - all phones do this. All phones with lithium batteries have a chance of entering thermal runaway. It's inherent in the materials. That said, the Note 7 was close to two orders of magnitude above what a consumer device really should be in terms of spontaneous combustion. Still low probability, but too high for the disruptive nature of and heat generating device on an operating aircraft.

There shouldn't be coercion involved to get you to buy another of their devices.

They are just scared to death that people will "defect" to the iPhone. Because if they do, they will never look back.

Face it. Samsung is already the top-end of the Android world. So if people decide on another Android device this time around, like Huawei, they'll likely be back to Samsung when they realize that the other brand is shit.

But if most people switch from Samsung to Apple, they will never buy another Android phone again.

That's not trolling or flamebait (although I am SURE it will be modded as such), that's market research.

I'm sure there's more, but it's too depressing to keep searching for them. Honestly, as an academic/scientific programmer I feel like I could never try to write a commercial application. Any idea you have is already present in an overbroad patent owned by someone with deeper pockets than you.

It's a troll article and a troll headline. Read it? It says USB analog audio will be a standard and will be easier to do. It does not say a thing about whether Samsung will leave out the 3.5mm jack. And given the hit Apple took to its sales and reputation, I guess Samsung will be keeping the 3.5mm jack for at least another generation if not longer.

I don't buy Apple shit because of their choices that would cost me more than comparable products that are just as good if not better.

Oh, you mean like that SLOW-ASS Galaxy Note 7 "Fireball Edition" (which feature they have apparently kept on the "non-fireball" version), that > costs as much or more as an equivalent-storage Unlocked iPhone 7?

Yeah, good choice!

http://bgr.com/2016/06/17/robo... Congrats to slashdot for being taken in twice.

Ah yes, crippling the iPhone further with the removal of the highly standardised headphone jack, requiring a pricey and fragile, easy-to-lose, bulky adapter. They're seemingly trying to make the iPhone as useful as a pet rock, and similarly overpriced.

Why is Apple doing this, really? The reason isn't waterproofing (both Samsung and Sony meet at least IP68 ratings, and for some models, even Milspec 810G) without sacking the headphone jack. It isn't technology-related, since both Sony and Samsung fit far more features into less space - again, without sacking the headphone jack.

It's about having yet another expensive-yet-fragile-and-easy-to-lose mandatory accessory, or to create a sense vendor lock-in (because they'll be telling their gullible customers "by the way we make some premium headphones to match our pet rock") so they can sell more expensive yet inferior and terrible sounding headphones by Beats, which literally include weights to lend the illusion of high quality heavy magnets in the drivers. See:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

http://bgr.com/2015/06/19/beat...

http://www.popularmechanics.co...

I'm happy with my Samsung S7 Edge, thanks - the iPhone 4 was my last; after seeing the direction it was going with the 4s and 5 I made the switch back to Samsung phones (my phone prior to the iPhone 3GS was a Samsung) and am sticking with them.

Apple is rather unique in that people forget their failures while remembering their successes, or even incorrectly attribute other people's innovations to Apple. For other companies, it's usually the other way around. That's why people joked that Jobs projected a Reality Distortion Field.