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Yeah not so much anymore. They typically replaced all the paper in the cockpit with iPads. They've done this on several airlines and it's FAA approved.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TE...
http://www.padgadget.com/2011/...
http://www.todaysiphone.com/20...
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And where was the political outrage towards Apple when they opened their own stores, for causing "unfair" competition with the other retailers?

(Obligatory computer analogy in this car thread.)

There were tons of complaints by tons of people; they were unable to buy the laws because the resellers were not franchisees. Here's a short list of pissed off people:

All U.S.: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Apple-dealers-biting-back-Mac-sellers-say-2636871.php
Australia: http://www.macworld.com/article/1027780/australia.html
France: http://www.padgadget.com/2011/12/30/apple-reseller-sues-apple-in-france/
Portugal: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/07/portuguese-reseller-interlog-fails-sues-apple-for-hefty-sum
LA and Boston: http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/22/apple_repair_consultants_upset_over_changes_to_apple_retail_referral_policy

The current Apple pissing contest is over the changes to the repair referral channel. They're going to lose to Apple's wishes there, too, since what Apple sells is a holistic customer experience rather than selling only consumer devices.

Maybe they use less data because iPhone apps aren't constantly uploading their gps coordinates and downloading ads. If you look at mobile web traffic, iOS beats android. Even when you factor out the iPad.

Hey, don't shoot the messenger. It wasn't me who did all those unethical things. If you want it to stop, send Tim Cook an email.

It's the other way around : Android comes with the Google apps, gmail, calendar, Google search as default, etc. Not to include these apps means you cannot be Android certified. iOS devices still have 55% of mobile internet usage share, Apple could have switched all those users to their own maps, yahoo search or circumvented Google search for Wolfram Alpha as they have done with Siri. So Google built their own platform where their services are the default or it isn't Android.

The principle of the matter is the same :undermine the competition by offering your version, tied to your products for free.

Oh. Really? ;)

The article itself states that they knew that iBooks was in development.

Where does it state that? Are you referring to this?

"Apple's iBooks was already in development when we talked to the company and it certainly must have known that the future plans would doom us to failure," the company said.

That doesn't state that the developer knew iBooks was in development, that states that Apple knew that iBooks was in development. Please take the time to comprehend what you are reading.

Amazon released the Kindle App in June of 2010. iBooks was released January 2010.

The iFlow reader? December 2010

Citation needed. Maybe you were looking at this link. Note the version being released as 4.1. How about you look a little deeper next time? Here is a MacWorld March 2009 review of three e-reader apps, iFlow reader being among them. iFlow Reader is likely older then that review date.

As well, iBooks was ANNOUNCED in Jan 2010, and RELEASED mid 2010, with either the iOS 4.0 release, or one of it's updates.

So while it may not have been their intention when they STARTED the company & development, by the time of release they WERE competing with both. More specifically, they were competing with entrenched competition.

Absolutely false as shown above.

Your argument is invalid. Please spend 2 minutes doing research instead of believing everything the media tells you to.

If you're going to try to debunk someone and turn the phrase, you might want to make sure your information is accurate. That takes longer then 2 minutes. Once again, Your "facts" are false, and your argument is invalid. There was no entrenched competition from either Apple OR Amazon, and it would appear that iFlow beat them both to the iOS by more then a year.

I don't know what the linked article says, but a quick Google search returned this page

It says that Samsung manufactures an Apple designed processor, and Intel may start a business of manufacturing non-Intel designed processors. So, at this point is very simple: Apple can take advantage of the manufacturing process of Intel to mass produce their own processors. I.e. none of your options.

Here is the original article on PadGadget, with the video mentioned here. http://www.padgadget.com/2010/10/01/hacked-ipad-runs-google-chrome-os/