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Good point, must of helped Google sell another dozen of them. Thats what makes this whole thing creepy, how many iPhones did this scheme sell for Apple - I imagine a non-trivial nu…

The right thing is that people who replaced their deliberately slowed down iPhones with new iPhones because of their ignorance about what Apple had done, should have an appropriate…

This is about trading carrier lockin for apple lockin, that's all.

No wonder their stuff is so messed up, it's all fear all the time.

The author is right. No one wants to hold their computer for extended use. The phablet is the right compromise, it does everything a tablet does and more while still being light, s…

Channels suck right, so is this supposed to be good news?

DF is an evangelist for the Apple religion, so he reliably brings out the true believers. This stuff might be entertaining but it's certainly not informative. BTW, this is part of …

It makes sense for the legal system to guard against copying. If people buying Android phones actually thought they were buying iPhones - that's a problem. But if Apple can convinc…

People who tend to accumulate lot's of money tend to be sociopaths and should be closely monitored and controlled.

These mostly absurd laws are intended to protect consumers not corps. Feeling protected yet? And why is the ITC deciding what devices we can use? Who are these people accountable t…

Gruber fundamentally doesn't want to remember Jobs saying that iPhone runs "real OSX": http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/04/steve-jobs-iphone-runs-real-o... He of course suffers from a v…

When you decide to develop for a platform, you are dependent on the platform provider's goodwill if they are not open source. Why would anyone who has paid any attention to Apple, …

Everyone knows the "App" in "App Store" is short for "Apple".

iPad's post-pc experience: holding your computer get's old fast, touch is frustratingly imprecise, copy/paste and the web suck. SJ talks about how it's not a computer and then poin…