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Ah, the rights don't really apply, there's a gap in the law: http://m.computeractive.co.uk/ca/consumer-rights/1931491/isnt-software-covered-undere-sale-act

Come on. Not to defend Apple as such, but how can you call being outsold 1:5 a failure when you have one single model competing with hundreds of other models?

Its like cheating somehow!? The Samsung Galaxy III has sold more than the iPhone on its own. Although I do not think it is somehow cheating to sell more than one phone lol.

says who? iPhone 5 sold 5 million in 3 days and is on track to sell 46.5 million in the 4th quarter while the S3 took two months to sell only 10 million. Clearly Samsung is going to have to step-up their astroturfing marketing campaign. Samsung has been caught astroturfing forums, think they're posting fake comments on /. too?

"Android? Better than Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu/etc?"

If you can get a more-or-less vanilla version of any of those to run on a Pi, then money and fame are probably yours.

Apparently Pi can't do it.

The Pi is intended to run a stripped-down version of Arch Linux, not Debian.

If it were a more standard flavor of Linux, like a regular Debian kernel, I'd definitely prefer it over Android.

BTW: there are already movements to make copyright infringement a criminal offence.

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/1907512/uk-opposes-criminal-sanctions-copyright-infringement
"A document leaked by French advocacy group La Quadrature du Net shows that EU negotiators want criminal sanctions introduced into the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta)."

I don't know if it's in the current Acta.

Until these Sci-Fi input devices become mainstream, you could always count on foldable keyboard.

Even since my PalmIIIc period, I've been using foldable keyboard (by think outside and the like).
Note, I'm not speaking about the clamshell ones, nor the rollable ones.
I'm speaking about a box which has almost the same size as the Palm it self. It unfolds like an accordion in 4 parts. Once you've laid it flat, you slide the keys from the outer parts and you get a complete Desktop size ~90 keyboard (only lacks a keypad). This "sliding" locks the keyboard in open position, so you don't need a full flat place to used (compared to laser+infrared virtual keyboards) and you get actual tactile feed-back (not virtual keys. Real keys, which have the same size as those from your desktop).

Did all my note-taking at the university using such systems.

The best part is, now with the advent of common standard communication protocols like bluetooth, they produce one single model that fits for any bt-enabled PDA/smartphone/whatever (unlike back then, when they had to provide 1 model for every different proprietary connector that the market has come up with, and you had to rebuy a new one each time you changed your PDA).

Oh I can't help myself.

A treasure trove of Wintel TPM offerings predating the IntelliMac! Featuring, at the very least, the Gateway FX400 home PC, introduced in July 2005. Gateway's having problems, but I bet they've shipped more FX400s with TPM modules than Apple has in the quest for the "broad mainstream consumer market," whatever the hell that is. Feel free to walk through the rest of the list. You need to prove that those machines are only sold to enterprises. Fact is, Dell Latitudes have been and are sold to individuals in bulk. So are half the machines on that list.

Also, just for fun, a review of the best selling computers under 1000 pounds from November 1997. USB galore. Intel introduced USB with the 430 Triton II chipsets, which came out far earlier than the iMac.

I have no doubt that I can keep citing back earlier than you. If you want to feel persecuted, go nuts. I didn't question wireless, I didn't question laser printers. Yet claiming that Apple introduced USB and TPM to the mainstream is nuts. The gigabit ethernet claim is probably nuts as well, but you don't even bother to read the things that you do cite, so I feel like I'm wasting my breath.

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/news/212615 1/trojan-mugs-uk-web-banking-customers - this doesn't matter: trojans can take screenshots now.

Try reading what I actually wrote, for a change. Nobody was talking about IE7-only sites.

Joe User saw the shell "entirely overhauled" with Win2000 and he and 80% of his neighbors said "fuck that".

First, Joe User never saw the Windows 2000 shell because it was marketed as a business OS. Second, the shell was not overhauled, it was largely identical to Win98's.

What the hell are you talking about? WinME sold less copies (and had less copies pre-installed) than Win95, Win98, Win2000, and WinXP

Can't be bothered to prove it, but I'm fairly certain that ME PCs vastly outsold 2000 Professional PCs in the period when they were both current OEM products. Are you claming there was big drop-off in consumer PC sales during this period? Win2K never had more than 20% of the market.

But in case you haven't been following the figures, new computer sales are some of the lowest ever seen over the last decade.

You mean like these: http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/news/213816 4/idc-raises-computer-sales

And even if growth is slowing in a mature market, it doesn't mean that turnover is declining. In fact the exceptionally low prices will only accelerate new PCs coming on line.

The equipment Joe User has does just what he wants it to do; he doesn't want to go through yet another upgrade cycle

I bet you said the exact same thing the last 5 times MS released a new OS too.

Longhorn isn't going to take anything by storm. And by extension, neither will IE7.

Maybe you've forgotten about that monopoly? 90% of new PCs will come with Longhorn and IE7, and your factually impotent handwaving ain't going to change that fact.

Notice that I talked about music albums, not TV shows. You are right about TV shows, but music albums don't suffer from any loss in quality. One study showed that people using Napster purchased fewer CDs the longer they used the service.
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/news/211394 5/napster-veterans-fewer-cds