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(Detailed take-apart here.)

Having won the last lawsuit to the tune of $1B

The award has already been chopped almost in half, and the case hasn't even gotten to appeals yet.

http://www.macgasm.net/2013/03/01/judge-koh-cuts-400-million-from-apple-samsung-suit/

I personally doubt there will be much of anything left of that award in the end.

Can I install a custom IOS or Android ROM on the hardware?

Yes, Android and Linux both, and a jailbroken iOS version is custom, just not as customized as you can make a Linux kernel.

... Well it appears you cant do whatever you want. Don't mistake the pitiful increase in rights "jailbreaking" an Iphone gives you for freedom, you are still bound to Apple. With Jailbreaking you're breaking out of your cell, but you're still inside the prison walls.

Apparently, I'm out of the cell, the walls, and even the grounds.

Sure you can. Sorry to burst your bubble of Apple hate.

Got anything newer than the Iphone 3G. Apple locked the bootloader with the second revision of the 3G. So if you've got a 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S or 5, I'm 100% correct.

Wrong again - iDroid runs on 3G/3GS and work is in progress on the 4. Check the links. Or here, for the truly lazy

Thank you, It's nice to receive 3 consecutive "I was wrong" awards.

FTFY

You can still jail break your brand new iPhone in 2012 and do whatever you want.

Can I install a custom IOS or Android ROM on the hardware? No you say. Well it appears you cant do whatever you want. Don't mistake the pitiful increase in rights "jailbreaking" an Iphone gives you for freedom, you are still bound to Apple. With Jailbreaking you're breaking out of your cell, but you're still inside the prison walls.

Sure you can.

Sorry to maintain your bubble of Apple logic.

Got anything newer than the Iphone 3G. Apple locked the bootloader with the second revision of the 3G.

So if you've got a 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S or 5, I'm 100% correct.

Also, there were not custom IOS ROM's in your post, they were all Android or Linux.

Thank you, It's nice to receive my 350th consecutive "I was right" award.

You can still jail break your brand new iPhone in 2012 and do whatever you want.

Can I install a custom IOS or Android ROM on the hardware? No you say. Well it appears you cant do whatever you want. Don't mistake the pitiful increase in rights "jailbreaking" an Iphone gives you for freedom, you are still bound to Apple. With Jailbreaking you're breaking out of your cell, but you're still inside the prison walls.

Sure you can.

Sorry to burst your bubble of Apple hate.

Further, there is no way that the person who broke into your house is responsible. It is your fault for not having perfect security. So don't even think of calling the police. You have no basis for complaint. And what about the naked pictures of the kids. Also your fault. So you get to register as the sex offender, not the innocent person who was just doing security research and conductet a proof of concept survey.

In all seriousness, if one finds an error, it is responsible to state the error to the appropriate people first. If they ignore you then promoting a proof of concept . But only a extremely foolish person would expect gratitude for such a thing.

I really dislike that part of the ruling as well.

I also strongly suspect that, magically, this ruling will do nothing to help those poor developers who have been utterly ripped off by Zynga, in several well-known cases like this one. Call me cynical, if you will.

You said, and I quote: "just suing over use of patents isn't 'patent trolling', so Apple isn't a patent troll." Which is a non sequitur, pure and simple, popularly known as a logical fallacy. First, your premise may well be false, but whether it is true or false, your purported conclusion does not follow from it. Your use of the word "just" in no way changes the sense of the perfectly simple English sentence you wrote, in spite of how you might want to spin that.

In any case, Apple is a dispicable organization that seems determined to become even more so.

By the way, it would seem that you lack courage,

As do your slimeball Apple astroturfer friends.

You said, and I quote: "just suing over use of patents isn't 'patent trolling', so Apple isn't a patent troll." Which is a non sequitur, pure and simple, popularly known as a logical fallacy. First, your premise may well be false, but whether it is true or false, your purported conclusion does not follow from it. Your use of the word "just" in no way changes the sense of the perfectly simple English sentence you wrote, in spite of how you might want to spin that.

In any case, Apple is a dispicable organization that seems determined to become even more so.

By the way, it would seem that you lack courage,

It's really nice stuff but then it costs a lot of money so it should be.

1996 calling, it wants it's mime back. I dare you to configure Dell, HP, and Leveno products so it will have similar specs to a Mac then compare prices. I did precisely that before ordering the MacBook Pro I'm typing this on. Of them the cheapest was a brand I hadn't heard of before, it was $50 cheaper. The Dell, and I tried Alienware which Dell bought out, cost about $200 more. HP's offering cost more too. Because I planned on installing Ubuntu to dual-boot I also checked out compatibility. The one thing that makes it more difficult to install Ubuntu is using EFI, the GUID Partition Table (GPT), and installing Ubuntu on an HFS+ formatted partition. I'll install Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) onto the internal HDD, Oops, there another problem I'll install Oneiric Ocelot (Ubuntu 11.10) onto a USB external drive which presents it's own problems.

What bothers me is that the OS isn't what it could be. It's better than Windows in my opinion but really I remember putting Snow Leopard on my Dell 1545 just for kicks.

That's your personal opinion, others love Snow Leopard. My MBP came with Tiger and it was about 4 months after Leopard came out before I upgraded. The only reason I did was because Java 6 would only run on Leopard, at least without a bunch of hacking. And as I was a member of Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Leopard was free. When Snow Leopard came out it took me a couple of months before buying it, heck it only cost $29. But it took a few more months before I actually installed it. Although Lion has been out for a while, released on 20 July 2011, I still have not bought or upgraded to it.

I want to like OS X but it's so hard to.

I do like OSX, what I have a harder tyme with is liking Apple. It makes, er designs, terrific hardware a programs great software. With the exception of the Mac though it only takes others ideas then releases its own products. And even with hardware Apple is falling behind. While consumer Macs have had more than one revision since the summer of 2010 the Mac Pro has not been upgraded. Try looking for a Sandy Bridge Mac Pro and you won't find one. One rumor has it Apple will Kill Mac Pros just like they did to the XServe. Since they did they've pushed shops to use Mac Minis for servers, but a Mini can't handle tasks the Pro has no problems with. Of course other rumors have it that Minis with Thunderbolt can have external graphics cards as well as storage attached enabling them to be used instead of Mac Pros. As it is now I'd like to get another MacBook Pro but I don't think I will buy any other Apple product.

Falcon

I can't believe people simplify the issue to this extent (but reveals their bias). Even respectable sources for news have done it (FOTO8) and yet Nilay Patel has explained it in great detail: http://www.macgasm.net/2011/04/19/recommended-read-nilay-patel-apple-samsung-lawsuit/.

Are you serious? Some very few examples:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/159887/rejected_10_iphone_apps_that_didnt_make_apples_app_store.html

http://www.macgasm.net/2010/04/30/apple-seals-fate-of-canadian-game-isealclub-rejected-from-app-store/

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/18/apple-rejects-yoot-saitos-iphone-game-dev-staff-considered-sea/

Not to mention all the rejections of games that used the Unity framework.

You might want to think twice about installing iOS4 on your iPhone 3G. It's not the fastest device anymore. One gentleman seems to have installed the development version on his 3G and says "not worth it": http://www.macgasm.net/2010/06/17/week-ios4-3g-phone-worth/

The summary is basically that it's a lot slower than 3.1.3.

I'm definitely going to wait a week or two and see what the results are.