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http://buyersguide.macrumors.com is helpful, too.

I actually agree with metering; I think it's the only fair measure. Granted, the metering you describe sounds atrocious, and there'll probably be a long messy transition to the poi…

For me, it's the NYT's habit of referencing noise that they helped to create (the "soap opera") as if they were a completely impartial 3rd party; it's like they're blind to their o…

Admittedly, I remember being surprised both when Apple opened up ratings/reviews for its own products on store.apple.com, and also when their apps on the App Store followed all of …

I don't understand your first sentence.

It's not so much "love" as it is obsession; and obsessive people tend to be at least colorful , if not interesting, just given how much time they're willing to devote to a subject …

Immaculate UI/UX. Whether in landscape or portrait orientation, there are many clever flourishes: it uses Tweetie's "pull up to refresh" mechanism for moving between articles in a …

Reeder for iPad is great, too; really fast UX.

I haven't tested it, but I'm intrigued by Shuan Inman's Fever reader ( http://feedafever.com/ ). Basically the idea is that you separate your feeds into two distinct types: essenti…

Exactly why I'm skeptical about these reports, including my own! (And if the old method to access the field test mode hadn't been disabled, I'd be the first to give you dBm measure…

It's a somewhat reasonable account (notably by an iPhone owner), though I remain skeptical (i.e., not trusting either side). I've had an iPhone 4 for two days now, and I have yet t…

Or when your entire browser crashed instead of just a single tab.

Is there an iAd daemon? Anyway, I'd hope that explicitly disabling all location services would do just that. If headless apps were still powering on the GPS and triangulating cell …

In fact, you can completely disable location services with one switch. (Settings --> General --> Location Services --> Off) If you prefer a more granular approach, all apps (includ…

I think we're probably making too much of the word "fan", and that Gruber was just using it to indicate preference (as opposed to devotion). That said, I'm a fan of Apple because I…

I don't think being a fan of the iPhone doesn't mean you can't also be a fan of Android; they're not mutually exclusive (I have an Xbox and a Wii). That said, in 2010, there is a s…

And they publicly donated $100k to fight against Prop 8.

Yeah I guess you're right, looking back at this. I mean, why not just give the original drive back? There's no good reason. You're right.

When I've sent a laptop to AppleCare, they're very explicit about the possibility that they won't return the same drive, and that you should backup your data. That said, they've ne…

No one's going to stop them from doing what's within the law; that's a given. I'm saying it strikes me as unethical, and it assumes a certain infancy in the public's tech acumen...…

The extra usability is a function of the carrier's network, not anything on Skype's end. And since many of us are already paying our carriers for data plans, why should Skype arbit…

Background VoIP support in iPhone OS 4 suggests Apple has no intention of blocking these apps; in fact, it seems that they're encouraging them. And as I understand it, G Voice is n…

iPhone? I'm sure this will apply to Skype's Andrioid client, too. (Also, "you idiot"? Really?)

From Skype's perspective, how is the cell network different from any other ISP? It's the carriers who will shoulder the burden; and there's no indication that any of the fee is goi…

"he was ready to submit The Impossible Game ... to the Xbox Indie marketplace ... Unlike Apple's App Store, this outlet has no corporate gatekeeper - the games are reviewed and rat…