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There is no DRM in the hardware of the iPhone/iPad. It is absolutely no better than the worst Android device, and there are available cracks to rip Netflix streams on a jailbroken …

I've spent somewhere in the range of $20 on various apps in the Android market. That includes one single game -- an okay racing game. Do I want to spend more? Absolutely (I spend a…

I personally used to use downvoting to sink comments that are of no particular interest to me, and to promote other branches of the thread that I'd like more people to look at and …

QuickTime is terribly obsolete, joining the ranks of products like RealPlayer. It has no reason to exist in the modern platform. http://www.apple.com/ipad/guided-tours/ On h264/Ogg…

it's also worth remembering that for google you are the product (clicks) as well as the customer. There aren't many exceptions to this. It is certainly true of Apple, where you are…

Especially in the case you've brought up here. Microsoft's financial might in the 90's was all about strategic relationships, three dimensional chess and out-maneuvering their comp…

I see you got downvoted. HN has descended into a pro-Apple prattle pit yet again, which is sad.

Apple makes massive profit margins by doing right by the customer (as they see it). Sure, and so does Microsoft. That argument works for any company. The problem is that many of Ap…

No silly holy wars or sanctimonious proclamations. I'm really torn trying to figure out which parts of your post is sarcasm. Because if you're really claiming that Apple hasn't pur…

? Not a fan of Flash, but video-playback is a very, very small part of the Flash platform (and even then it's often producer-friendly in the form of supporting extensive DRM for th…

I don't disagree with your observations about a pre-Gingerbread device, however it is remarkable how much 2.3 has improved. It is very competitive with the iPhone now from a spit a…

In Sicily you fit perfectly in a category called "cowards" Weak. I read HN occasionally but haven't contributed in many months. I do pay attention to database theory / NoSQL storie…

While much is made about passwords being sent across the open net, almost every site short of banks allow you to reset a password with an email, which is a close to identical probl…

http://code.google.com/p/redis/ "Redis - A persistent key-value database" http://redis.io/ "Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store" I'm not sure what sort of extended co…