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"Work" refers to the generated output of iBooks Author. In other words, the exclusivity covers the .ibook file generated by Apple's tool, but you are free to sell the book in other ePub formats on other platforms. Also, you can provide the book for free on your website.

MacRumors has full live coverage of the event with pictures. I couldn't tell if I'm able to just read my damn books on my Mac, though. Hope I don't have to use iBooks Author to do it.

I forgot to add that I bought a huge box of iTissues to wipe my iDick and iBalls of all my iCum.

Overly Critical Guy

MacRumors has full live coverage of the event with pictures. I couldn't tell if I'm able to just read my damn books on my Mac, though. Hope I don't have to use iBooks Author to do it.

They should be prepared to have their device remote-wiped. Or at least the work partition on the device.

And some devices do have negative impact on the network. See previous issues with Apple like:
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/17/princeton-university-details-ipad-wireless-networking-issues/

The closest you can get is to have external apps sync with your main iCloud calendar.

A Siri API for specific swappable tools like calendars would be hard, but not impossible. Convincing Apple to create that API would likely be the hardest part.

Reminds me of this.

Apple doesn't make much off of iTunes compared to the rest of their income, but 1.25B/Qtr is a friking BIG company.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/19/apple-reports-record-breaking-q3-2011/

2) As mentioned above: Screen size.

iOS5 implements a way to solve this for the iPad: AirPlay mirroring. You just have to buy the $99 Apple TV, connect it wirelessly to the iPad you already have, and you have a full touch screen controller and a 1080p display to play on, and the games cost less than the battery of a traditional game controller.

Sorry, but you all know what I mean. Since the AC said "Why the FUCK would anyone buy an android P.O.S. when the iPhone 5 is just around the corner?", thus comparing Android with iPhone, I stayed in the same line.

Anyway, according to http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/15/android-tops-50-share-of-smartphone-sales-but-apple-still-dominating-profits, your numbers are incorrect. "Popular' in my book means 'best sold', and every sold iOS there are 3 Androids, hence my example.

So, to paraphrase the AC: Why the FUCK would anyone buy an iPhone P.O.S. when an Android is already better NOW than the next iPhone?

Is there any reason Apple has to choose one brand or the other? They can use the same technology for both and just adapt the user interface to suit the type of user. Apple can keep plugging along with Yahoo's Search and Mail as they've been running the whole time and still do a separate tier of those services for their Macintosh/i-device customer base. Plus, having control of the Yahoo properties gets Apple access to new ways of reaching potential customers (without buying ad space from someone else). Apple has Photostream in their iCloud service, but I think a lot of those iPhone/iPod Touch users also have Flickr accounts. Integration of the two would be a great value-adding service for iCloud users.

As an iTools/.Mac/MobileMe user for years I'd love for my email to show a reliability more on par with what I get from my free Yahoo Mail account.

Anywho, $60 to $100 is brazenly aggressive from what's normally expected from Apple.

Not really. $60 off the iPad 2 is quite aggressive when compared to the only previous Black Friday sale after the original iPad was announced: last year, the discount for iPads was $41.

But it's deffinitely not the first time that Apple offers discounts of $100 for Macs: it happened at least last year (see previous link) and on 2009, 2006, and 2004.

Anywho, $60 to $100 is brazenly aggressive from what's normally expected from Apple.

Not really. $60 off the iPad 2 is quite aggressive when compared to the only previous Black Friday sale after the original iPad was announced: last year, the discount for iPads was $41.

But it's deffinitely not the first time that Apple offers discounts of $100 for Macs: it happened at least last year (see previous link) and on 2009, 2006, and 2004.

You're free to sell media on your own website using your own payment processing system and Apple gets nothing.

At one time, Apple announced that it require that if an application on the App Store requires a subscription to use, then it must also make subscriptions available through In-App Purchasing at a price no higher than elsewhere. It backed down on this in June. But what were Apple's motives for setting forth this policy in the first place?

Man must have followed my advice here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=13319755&postcount=483

iPhone 5?

Better start looking for another brand soon then if mac rumours is correct about the size of the iPhone 5.
I think the iPhone is too big and clunky, the Galaxy is even bigger - although it looks beautiful.... and lighter... sorry Apple fans, it is a great phone - as is the iPhone but I tend to use my old nokia dumb phone a lot because it's so small, light and has great battery life.

add in the classic cracking/yellow plastic on prior models, the crappy 15-bit TN screens they've used in the past (fixed under performance guarantees, IIRC, after legal action), too much thermal paste causing massive overheating, nVidia gfx chips cracking and falling off, exploding batteries, cooling ports blocked by plastic film and numerous HW failures-by-design - well, it's no wonder he's looking for a heavy duty warranty.

Apple's biggest design flaw is that they use the same name ("Macbook") for all of their laptops, year after year. So a Google for "macbook battery" or "macbook screen" returns every rant anyone has ever posted about every Apple laptop ever sold.

All the other manufacturers keep changing names so you can't keep track. HP has added "Envy" and "ProBook" to the "Presario" and "Pavillion" and "EliteBook", plus they add random model numbers like "dv5000." Makes it a lot harder to keep track. Dell does the same thing: What the hell is a Vostro? Is it like an Inspiron or a Latitude? It's certainly not an XPS, right, because that's the line they built to compete with Alienware, except now they own Alienware, and use that name, too.

Changing names often helps to encourage the short memories of consumers. I don't know anyone that's had a problem with a Vostro or an Envy...because I've never known anyone whose owned anything other than an Inspiron or a Pavillion.

add in the classic cracking/yellow plastic on prior models, the crappy 15-bit TN screens they've used in the past (fixed under performance guarantees, IIRC, after legal action), too much thermal paste causing massive overheating, nVidia gfx chips cracking and falling off, exploding batteries, cooling ports blocked by plastic film and numerous HW failures-by-design - well, it's no wonder he's looking for a heavy duty warranty.

I'd recommend a Dell, if you can stand the hardware - their NBD warranties kick ass. You can practically (ab)use the hardware for anything except hammering fenceposts & they'll replace it for you. Plus there's the data recovery option, might be worth it if you're special enough to keep important data on a laptop.

A chance to spend $1M on Apple stock - that is now worth over $300M (stock has split 8 times, original purchase was 100k shares)

And between when the offer was made and now, Apple nearly went bankrupt and was almost bought out by Sun.

So sure, in 20/20 hindsight buying $1M of Apple stock would have been a great investment, but there was no guarantee at the time it was going to be worth much.

I understand this is an authorized biography, so I'm sure Steve Jobs knew at least what it contained. Maybe he didn't care because he knew he was dying.

But I definitely understand his perspective that he could beat the cancer. Imagine his ego (and I really am trying not to sound insulting), but this is a man with his own distortion field who was very successful in his chosen field. I've heard similar stories about NFL players; because of the all the work and strong sense of self importance must have to be so dedicated to compete at the highest level, to a degree you think you're invincible. "That career ending injury was terrible for that other guy; but that couldn't happen to me."

A man that believed he could put a dent in the universe probably believed he could beat cancer on his own. I know if I get cancer I'm doing exactly what the doctor tells me, but that's also probably why I'm not the head of a multi-billion dollar company either.

You may find this helpful: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#iPhone

Delete pictures you've taken from PhotoStream or otherwise remove content from iCloud without resetting iCloud, Download music from the iTunes store app and have it actually play (the person who had this happen needed to use the iTunes computer application and upload it to get it to play), remove songs added to your phone via the iTunes store app (iTunes the computer application doesn't recognize that they even exist), Remove music from your iPhone without connecting to an iTunes computer... You know, basic I/O functionality. My friend's phone currently has several items on it that cannot be removed at all without doing a factory reset. Seems kinda broken to me. Maybe we have different definitions of "doesn't work", though.

... having a TPM chip and BitLocker-like access would be ideal...

Fun fact: Apple had a TPM chip in their laptops, but they removed it in a recent product revision.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=248858

Good luck getting it back!

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1236352

read post 6

what a joke.

Apple needs mac os sever for any VM

Wrong forum: http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=134

Quick summary timeline...

Dude sees an old MacBook Pro on Craigslist listed by Seller as broken.
Dude buys it thinking maybe he can fix it.
Dude does indeed fix it, requiring reflowing of parts, adding parts (ram, HDD, etc.), chronicles it at Anandech, noting that it seems to be no ordinary MBP.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2165252&highlight=macbook+antenna - Prototype Macbook Pro with 3G: In my shop now!

Dude then sells it on Craigslist himself as he has no use for it and doesn't yet realize its uniqueness.
Buyer takes it to an Apple Store for some service, Apple Store Genius bar says "This is not an Apple product." on account of weird things in there.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/30/apple-genius-bar-didnt-recognize-macbook-pro-3g-prototype-apple-now-wants-it-back/ - Apple Genius Bar Didn't Recognize MacBook Pro 3G Prototype

Buyer sues Dude, wins (in part based on Apple Store findings), Dude is out moneys.
Dude thinks 'wtf', though, and takes a closer look at the MacBook Pro, asking around on forums.
Dude learns that the red motherboard implies it's a prototype.
Weeks pass and Dude does what anybody who isn't a fanboy would do - puts it up for sale on e-bay.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20092180-248/3g-equipped-macbook-prototype-pops-up-on-ebay/ - 3G-equipped MacBook prototype pops up on eBay

e-bay bids go up to $70k, listing is pulled due to request from Apple.
Dude then hears nothing, sits around waiting for some manner of official explanation for days on end.
CNet, however, now wants to know what happened, so arrange an interview, in which they of course also call Apple.

Apple suddenly takes very keen notice.
http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml?nid=20099494&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-248 - Apple wants its 3G MacBook prototype back

Dude gets call - Apple wants their hardware back and they can have somebody stop by Dude's private residence that evening.
Dude says 'I think not, my lawyer will be in touch'.

Lawyer says Apple have no case.
Lawyer and Apple chit chat.
Lawyer says having no case matters shit all when you're Apple, so give up or incur huge costs.

Apple thus sends over a PI to pick up Prototype MBP.
Dude hands over the MBP.
Dude then sits around again wondering wtf just happened while waiting to see if he gets compensated in any way at all.
Apple does nothing.
Dude then petitions to Apple to get his shit back.
Apple says nothing, but does send an unmarked FedEx box with parts back.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20117512-248/prototype-3g-macbook-buyer-gets-parts-back - Prototype 3G MacBook buyer gets parts back

Dude now left with little option but either go "oh well", or sue the original Seller for incurred costs. Seller however says he received the MBP in earnest.

It would have been nice of Apple if they had arranged an exchange for a shiny new MBP and cover Dude's costs, as there's no reason to believe that this prototype was stolen and - as of the latest reports - Apple never filed it as such either.

The 'best' part? Being on IRC, watching a guy go from not being a fanboy but certainly an admirer of Apple, to being completely disenchanted.

You're reading the wrong sites :-P

The venerable and largely reliable site is macrumors.com. 9to5mac is newer but has a good record as well. They almost always cover the same things.

Reading the reliable sites, just about everything -- including the name 4s! -- was indeed leaked correctly. The only information about the 5 came from 3rd parties--case designers. Information about the 4s allegedy came from closer sources. This includes photographs of chips, ports, wiring, etc. False rumors are what people make up that aren't reliable. Leaks are based on actual information that isn't made up. Is everything that was predicted -- even on macrumors -- correct? Of course not! They would be the first to say that. The point is, there were actual leaks, as opposed to just rampant speculation. Apple did not control any information about the iphone 4s.

Read the macrumors roundup to see what I mean http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1238595

One interesting note on that subject is that within 2 weeks of taking over as CEO, Tim Cook reestablished a charitable matching program at Apple. So it seems that Jobs really blocked charity at Apple, let alone in his personal life.

It's kind of perplexing. The guy didn't exactly live high on the hog. Yes, he lived like a millionaire, but from I can tell, he didn't at all live like the billionaire that he was. Out of curiosity, I checked out his house on Google Maps the other day (search for Jobs, Waverly). It's in a high end neighborhood where homes are worth $2-5 million. Definitely not middle class, but a lot smaller and "lower end" than I would have expected for someone worth $8 billion. I kind of expected a $100-million compound isolated from the world, maybe in a heavily wooded/landscaped area, and employing a staff of 20+. But the street he lives on looks like a normal neighborhood, albeit pretty uppity, with neighbors and sidewalks and such. I'll bet most of his neighbors are worth less than 1% of what he was.

The point is that he clearly wasn't interested in burning through that money with insanely lavish luxuries like some sultan from Dubai or something. And he knew the end was coming with enough time to start blasting it out to charities if desired. So then what was he saving it for?

The trouble is that maybe Samsung doesn't really like being in the mobile space. Given Microsoft/Nokia and Google/Motorola, they might just see the writing on the wall. Mobile devices are a small fraction of Samsung's business, but a very, very large fraction of Apple's. If Samsung decides they're better off exiting the business and then demanding a sizable chunk of Apple's profits, they end up in the position of a patent troll with a number of very fundamental mobile device patents and Apple would have no obvious counter if Samsung does not fear an injunction.

Samsung seems very interested in mobile. Apple's also a HUGE customer. Samsung stopped reporting mobile/tablet sales individually, but I don't think anybody seriously expects their end game to be walking away from selling 20+ million handsets a quarter, despite margins on other products dragging down their profitability last quarter, just so they can hurt Apple, who represents a tenth of their sales anyway. That makes no more sense then those who think Intel's end game is to destroy the MacBook Air with their new ultra notebook initiative. It's to increase sales of their low power chips, presumably to gain a foothold with Microsoft and Windows 8 and stem the tide of ARM taking over a large segment of this sector. The more Intel based systems Apple sells... guess what, Intel doesn't suffer from that.

I completely agree that Apple would sooner accept a reduction in volume than a reduction in margin, but that doesn't take anything away from the need to make the trade off. Apple was on a growth vector before Android, now they have a consistent market share with little to no growth.

There's just no truth that Android has slowed Apple's sales. Apple hasn't quickly become a 25% player in desktop OS either, but sales are SURGING, even though Windows 7 proved to be the release everyone wished Vista had been. Last quarter was the best ever for iPhone sales even though iPhone 5 is perceived as delayed from it's usual lifecycle. It's hard to believe, but Apple consistently just doesn't care about marketshare. They care about profits. So their margins remain high and their sales continue to increase 140% at a time year over year in this sector. Ask HP how they feel about that? Being #1 isn't necessarily the way to profitability. Would you rather run Apple's notebook division or HPs? Yet HP is the number one seller, and Dell fast on their heels. Apple is a distant third hardware wise, and their OS is absurdly lagging Windows in marketshare.

Look, you are right that Android will probably have the highest footprint in smartphones over the next several years. Apple doesn't care about that number, WebOS is as dead as they come, Blackberry is stagnated and Windows Phone hasn't taken off the way MS had hoped. It's just that most people realize it's not important to Apple's bottom line, customer base, or shareholders.

The trouble is that maybe Samsung doesn't really like being in the mobile space. Given Microsoft/Nokia and Google/Motorola, they might just see the writing on the wall. Mobile devices are a small fraction of Samsung's business, but a very, very large fraction of Apple's. If Samsung decides they're better off exiting the business and then demanding a sizable chunk of Apple's profits, they end up in the position of a patent troll with a number of very fundamental mobile device patents and Apple would have no obvious counter if Samsung does not fear an injunction.

Samsung seems very interested in mobile. Apple's also a HUGE customer. Samsung stopped reporting mobile/tablet sales individually, but I don't think anybody seriously expects their end game to be walking away from selling 20+ million handsets a quarter, despite margins on other products dragging down their profitability last quarter, just so they can hurt Apple, who represents a tenth of their sales anyway. That makes no more sense then those who think Intel's end game is to destroy the MacBook Air with their new ultra notebook initiative. It's to increase sales of their low power chips, presumably to gain a foothold with Microsoft and Windows 8 and stem the tide of ARM taking over a large segment of this sector. The more Intel based systems Apple sells... guess what, Intel doesn't suffer from that.

I completely agree that Apple would sooner accept a reduction in volume than a reduction in margin, but that doesn't take anything away from the need to make the trade off. Apple was on a growth vector before Android, now they have a consistent market share with little to no growth.

There's just no truth that Android has slowed Apple's sales. Apple hasn't quickly become a 25% player in desktop OS either, but sales are SURGING, even though Windows 7 proved to be the release everyone wished Vista had been. Last quarter was the best ever for iPhone sales even though iPhone 5 is perceived as delayed from it's usual lifecycle. It's hard to believe, but Apple consistently just doesn't care about marketshare. They care about profits. So their margins remain high and their sales continue to increase 140% at a time year over year in this sector. Ask HP how they feel about that? Being #1 isn't necessarily the way to profitability. Would you rather run Apple's notebook division or HPs? Yet HP is the number one seller, and Dell fast on their heels. Apple is a distant third hardware wise, and their OS is absurdly lagging Windows in marketshare.

Look, you are right that Android will probably have the highest footprint in smartphones over the next several years. Apple doesn't care about that number, WebOS is as dead as they come, Blackberry is stagnated and Windows Phone hasn't taken off the way MS had hoped. It's just that most people realize it's not important to Apple's bottom line, customer base, or shareholders.

> Requiring the CEO to buy a chunk of the company can provide them with a greater
> financial stake in the company's success, or it can just provide them with the incentive
> to axe the R&D department, pump out a few quarters that Wall Street loves, and give
> themselves a giant bonus in the form of "shareholder value" before moving on...
>
> If anything, having a CEO without major holdings... might actually help ensure
> that they take the long view...

It's not either/or. There are ways to give someone a stake in the company and make it in their best interests to stick around and do good work. From last month's news about Apple's new CEO...

In connection with Mr. Cook's appointment as Chief Executive Officer, the Board awarded Mr. Cook 1,000,000 restricted stock units. Fifty percent of the restricted stock units are scheduled to vest on each of August 24, 2016 and August 24, 2021, subject to Mr. Cook's continued employment with Apple through each such date.

At the moment, those one million shares are worth about $400 million. It's entirely possible he'll become a billionaire as Apple's CEO.

Remember that prototype MacBook with what appeared to be a SIM card clot and antenna popping up on e-bay?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20092180-248/3g-equipped-macbook-prototype-pops-up-on-ebay/
( I'd link to a Slashdot article but Google's failing to find it. Or maybe /. never covered it. )

Welp, they want it back. Rather suddenly, coinciding with cnet's requests for comments from Apple.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20099494-248/apple-wants-its-3g-macbook-prototype-back/

I had actually been talking to Cnet all week, since the writer found the full backstory (especially the small claims part) interesting. He asked me if he could publish it, and I asked him to wait until I had heard something from Apple. Despite all my attempts I never did, so I finally said sure go ahead.

Then did Apple contact me . . . . directly, by phone. Quite possibly because Cnet contacted Apple PR to ask for comment before publishing. Their representative was very pleasant and polite actually, and we chatted for a while. He promised to call me back an hour later with a resolution. When he did they wanted to send an agent from Charlotte directly to me to recover the laptop immediately, tonight, and I didn't feel comfortable with that. Not based only on a phone call, with nothing at all in writing, and in the middle of the night (by the time they would reach Raleigh).

I said I needed to consult my lawyer, since I had promised I would do so before taking any action regarding the machine, and that we will take the matter back up first thing in the morning. I'll let him handle the matter from here rather than dealing with Apple directly, and hopefully everyone will be happy with the outcome. I actually rather like Apple and their products, so try not to bash too much guys! They haven't really done anything wrong at this point.

source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=13272429&postcount=38

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/30/despite-apples-denial-itunes-match-is-streaming/

You do realize this wasn't the only evidence submitted in the case? There is apparently a question as to whether or not the photos used were promotional photos created by Samsung themselves.

Ref: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/15/apples-evidence-in-samsung-tablet-case-reportedly-flawed/

As John at Edible Apple and others have pointed out, Apple's evidentiary submission is not limited to the inaccurate comparison photo, as Apple did also offer a number of other exhibits in support of its case, including some showing actual side-by-side photos of the iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 rather than just promotional images. Consequently, it stands to reason that the judge's decision was not based entirely on the flawed comparison, although the inclusion of inaccurate information in Apple's submission certainly is a curious one.

There are physical patents involved in this case, not just related to 'look'. Patented button designs, the formats used by the messaging client ('text bubbles").

Anyone who can look at these and think that Samsung didn't copy the design is deluding themselves: http://copyrightcommerceandculture.com/2011/05/12/did-samsung-copy-apples-iphone-ipad/

You want information, but you're too lazy to find it yourself.

Why the fake dismay? This IS Slashdot, after all.

For the lazy people, if you're heterosexual go here:
http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/

Otherwise go here:
http://www.macrumors.com/

AT&T was possibly looking at the TTL value

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1140306

I used the unsupported version of getting an older EFI back and haven't upgrade to 1.7 since. Works fine my my (Apply Service Center) replaced harddrive, since I got the infamous mid-2009 MBP SATA cable harddisk crash.

(The SATA cable apparently does other things as well, like keeping track of lid open/closed, and can become "faulty". Symptoms are like a disk crash)

Note: I THINK these are the same instructions I followed, but it would be best to research yourself.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=8416559&postcount=323

Possible starting point: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2267098?start=165&tstart=0

I've said it a few times before: Apple is a Consumer Electronics Phone marketing company. One single product - the iPhone - accounts for half their revenues and nearly 60% of their profits. EVERYTHING ELSE - iPads, iPods, Macs, iTunes, software, accessories, etc - accounts for the minority of their revenue and profits.

Apple has evolved in spectacularly profitable fashion to become a literal one-trick pony - the iPhone. They are losing marketshare in all other areas, nothing else has taken fire like the iPhone. So they are single-mindedly pursuing the iPhone metaphor across all business segments hoping it will ignite those other, smaller segments. But so far - nothing's caught.

Apple's big problem is going to be keeping the momentum in the phone market, or replacing it with momentum in another market. The iPhone is losing marketshare in the smartphone world, and its biggest share is in the US and EU markets - which are close to saturation. The growth markets for smartphones is China, South East Asia, and India - and Apple has very little penetration or positive growth in those markets. As the US and EU market growth for smartphones slows down, and that is coupled with Apple's slow loss of marketshare in those markets, they will face falling revenues and profits from the iPhone business.

Yeah, the iPhone was a huge hit in 1997, when Apple was nearly dead. Oh wait. the iPhone wasn't invented yet.

No, Steve Jobs came back, and released the iMac, which was a wildly popular computer. You know, that floppy-less computer.

Then in 2001, came the iPod, right at the time portable music players were taking off ("no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame").

Then in 2005 Apple switched to Intel.

And finally, in 2007, Apple released the iPhone.

So for 10 years from when Jobs took over a company that was basically dysfunctional, Apple magically created money off a hypothetical iPhone that never existed for that time.

No. Today, the iPhone makes 50%+ profits at Apple, and the iPod is dying, a product they profited immensely for the past 6 years prior to its release, which was inevitable.

Apple, like other companies, reinvented themselves - from computers (the iMac basically "saved" the company), to MP3 players (iPods) to smartphones.

As for marketshare - yes, Android phones outsell iPhones. However, when Apple basically gets 66% of profits of the entire mobile sector (including featurephones and Androids and everything else), you think Apple really cares? (Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/29/apples-profit-share-among-top-mobile-phone-vendors-rises-to-66/ ). This profit share is up from 57%. It basically means Android phones are being sold for little profit, while Apple rakes in more money per iPhone sale than Android sale by a huge margin.

And yes, iPhone profits will drop. And Apple will have to produce a new product. Perhaps it'll kill the iPhone like the iPhone killed the iPod. Apple's been doing the one-trick pony thing 3 times in the past 15 years. They know they have to come up with something new.

The idea of big studios pushing for more and higher quality streaming content is just unrealistic. Even current rumors of Apple streaming 1080p at 10Mbps would put the bandwidth requirements at 4.39 GB per hour. Even that could get some households in trouble with the new standard 250GB caps that Comcast and Time Warner have been pushing. Take for example a family, where the kids watch 2 movies a week and the parents watch 1 per week. Assuming a movie length of 2 hours, that alone would be over 100GB for only 24 hours of content in a month. Even before anyone does anything else, or before all of the youtube videos and such, that's 40% of a typical cap in the US. Without fundamental change on the part of large US ISPs, the idea that streaming content will push us to new and exciting resolution territory is just unrealistic.

Many, many moons ago (see my UID), this was a site founded about open source (with emphasis on Linux), science, and technology (with emphasis on IT). It was good, and attracted many interesting and smart people. The articles weren't always the best, but you could read comments from people who were knowledgeable in their field, and learn about really cool things you otherwise would never hear about.

But then, MS started to astroturf, and with popularity came misinformed bigots and those ignorant of science and the reasons for Free software. Microsoft and most of their shills have been (rightfully) discredited, but there has been a resurgence in people too blind to look past their brand loyalty and not satisfied with other sites that might better meet their needs. Why they feel the need to push their agenda to every inch of the Internet, I do not know.

Many good people have left slashdot; some of us still stay to try and clean things up. But it's hard when you see tons of spam and slashvertisements for companies who are hostile to freedom filling up the firehose everyday, and very little of note about open source and science and real technology getting through. Though there are still many wise people posting insightful comments here, I fear it might be time for me to leave. I'm not sure where I'd go; preferably somewhere that focuses on more technical issues; somewhere that cares about Freedom and open systems. Slashdot does not appear to be that place anymore.

Next computer is going to be from that company from Cupertino

Yeah. Because Apple would never dumb down their interface for 25+ years with a one-button mouse.

Or have the police kick in the front door of a journalist.

Too bad Apple is going to abandon desktops and their pro line software. They laid off 40 staff on the FCP team and turned it over to the iMovie people. If the FCP X fiasco is any indication, the transition not going to be clean or pretty.

Apple should have sold their desktop business and licensed their OS to someone else. They're a successful consumer electronics company trailing a part of the business they hang on to for nostalgia.

Regardless of how well (or not) their desktop sales are going, apple laptop sales are still doing extremely well.

To say they should have sold off their OS is just silly, while they may have opened up / moved more into certain segments of the consumer electronics market (originally the iPod, then other things like the iPad), their mac sales are still quite strong and I'm sure profitable.

Uhhhhh, iPad numbers don't count when we're talking about PCs. I don't care what Jobs says about making the PC "just another device"... the iPad isn't up there with PCs yet, and thus shouldn't be counted in your calculations for third place.

Just checked. Apple is no longer signing 4.3.3 from what i'm reading. Well. Guess whoever is on 4.3.3 will never be able to get back there after a restore. TinyUmbrella will do nothing now, nor will Cydia's backup.

Am I the first one to point to the full list of price changes?

UK: £0.59 -> £0.69
Australia: AU$1.19 -> AU$0.99
Japan: 115 -> 85 Yen
Mexico: $10 -> $12
Switzerland: 1.10Fr -> 1.00Fr
Norway: 6.00Kr -> 7.00Kr

And also interesting (at least for some) is Apple will allow business to sell custom apps to other businesses in volume directly.

Am I the first one to point to the full list of price changes?

UK: £0.59 -> £0.69
Australia: AU$1.19 -> AU$0.99
Japan: 115 -> 85 Yen
Mexico: $10 -> $12
Switzerland: 1.10Fr -> 1.00Fr
Norway: 6.00Kr -> 7.00Kr

And also interesting (at least for some) is Apple will allow business to sell custom apps to other businesses in volume directly.

Indeed, this was part of a global adjustment based on the way that the US dollar is traded today.

For the App Store, the international equivalents of the $0.99 apps have changed to the following prices according to MacRumors:

UK: £0.59 -> £0.69
Australia: AU$1.19 -> AU$0.99
Japan: 115 -> 85 Yen
Mexico: $10 -> $12
Switzerland: 1.10Fr -> 1.00Fr
Norway: 6.00Kr -> 7.00Kr

but find me an Android review which doesn't mention the lag, choppy, hesistancy of thebasic operations at least on occassion

I got my first Android phone a few days ago. A Google Nexus S, I really don't know what you're talking about with regards to lag, choppy, hesistancy of the basic operations, I really don't. I get pissed off when things freeze/lock up, but I haven't seen any of that - Being the tech I am, I am additionally running with full disk encryption, so wouldn't it be more likely I'd run into problems considering the extra resources given away?

You ask us to find some review of the iPhone lagging, well here are a few user reviews of their own devices for you:

http://www.sinfuliphone.com/showthread.php?t=33715

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=385147

What I found interesting in my quick Google search though is this:

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/08/20/steve-jobs-software-fix-coming-for-slow-ios-4-performance-on-iphone-3g/

I don't think you searched hard.

Not according to this forum, the rumor was started by OWC and never retracted. According to some of the users, they were able to install a new HDD.

According to this forum, it was a bunch of BS and that many of the users were able to replace their HDDs without issue.