Apple doesn't delete any purchased movies from your local library. What can happen is that the studios can expire the contracts that allow Apple to stream or download the movie even for people who purchased it previously.

However if you purchase a movie, and keep a local copy of the file, you can continue to play it.

Yes, I know, DRM sucks, but...

Having titles pulled from the store rarely does happen, and Apple will offer some form of less than equal compensation when you contact them.

More often though, titles are upgraded for free. I've had many 720p/1080p movies upgraded to 4K for free as well as some upgrades on SD titles. This doesn't happen with all titles, but it happens far more often than titles being removed.

Personally, I still strip DRM from the movies I purchased from Apple, because I want to play them with alternative software, but regardless, while there are advantages to disc formats, all of this should be put in proper context as disc formats also have defects, and can be damaged, experience defects or be susceptible to some of the very same DRM issues.

I have a few problems with that idea.

One, as written, you'd have startups unable to afford the risk in whatever the end user does with the product/service.

For example, I have a WiFi connected power switch. Really, for me, it doesn't need any security at all. Worst case scenario, someone could turn off/off the nightlight attached to it.

However, someone else could take that same switch and connect it to something that if the power went out as a result of it getting hacked, the loss could be millions or more.

The other problem comes from determining who is actually to blame for a device being hacked. It could be the device, the user, another device (like the router) or some combination.

By trying to take it out of government regulation, you'd actually be increasing the reach of government. As it is now, manufactures are free to offer whatever warranty protection against hacking they want. They could protect the user for $100 in damages, $1,000, etc.. or nothing, which some people may be fine with depending on the use case. You're also getting the government involved (the judicial branch) when a device is hacked and the courts need to decide how much and who is to blame,

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding here is that in order to get an extradition the law that the person broke must also be illegal in the country you're extraditing from (and have a treaty with). So no, China could not do that.

Just in case you aren't joking, that's a *really* bad idea.

It sounds like what they did was take whisky that had not been aged yet, put it in a glass vial with piecies of the charred oak barrels and sent it up to the ISS. They then compared this to the whisky of the same batch which had been properly aged in oak barrels.

Obviously this is going to age differently, as it would age differently if the same vials were on Earth. I doubt that if treated with the same temp, darkness and lack of turbulence that it would be any different from the same vials aged on Earth.

However, there's a reason why we don't age whisky by simply storing it in tanks with charred chunks of oak.

Instead we keep them in oak barrels that are aged in varying temperatures that cause expansion and contraction, bringing the whisky in and out of the wood. The whisky is also aged for varying amounts of time to reach the perfect taste characteristics based on the conditions they experienced.

Certainly though, those that commissioned the "experiment" were far more interested in marketing than science.

HP also solved this problem ages ago. Their solution is to link the Print Dialogue window directly to their online store for ordering a new set of ink cartridges each time you print.

The Apple Watch certainly costs more, and if that's a priority then the Pebble would be the way to go, which can be said for most premium or higher end products.

The Apple Watch has better sensors, better integration, a better screen, UI, and UE. Siri works really well, as does the haptic feedback. Even the features Pebble "matches" the Apple Watch with, it's far from really matching. Try making a phone call with it without a connected headset. Try going on a hike and getting an *accurate* measurement of distance, heart rate (min/max/avg), and calories burned). The list goes on and on.

As for the battery life, I take my watch off every night and let it charge so the Pebble has no advantage there any more than the fact that it's Android compatible didn't give it an advantage.

Again though, if battery, Android compatibility, and cost were the criteria, the Pebble would be a better match, but other than that, the Apple Watch is better in every way.

I take mine off at night because I don't want to sleep with it, but if I did, I would charge it off when I shower and when I eat. 2 hours is to go from 0 to full, in reality only about an hour is needed.

Because your feature comparison to the Apple Watch is totally ridiculous. If we have the money, we'd rather have something that does all of that and more (except for the Android compatibility, which we don't care about).

I had a Pebble, it was fantastic for me until the Apple Watch came along. I'm sure the Pebble and Pebble Time are still fantastic for others as well, but don't pretend you're getting the equivalent of an Apple Watch for less money.

"...Microsoft would make and BUNDLE their own implementation..."

Yep, that was a very real threat. I saw that happen to companies that didn't sell to Microsoft, and I was at companies that developed stuff with the thought of Microsoft taking us over in mind (that was usually a mistake).

The title says Memory, but they're talking about Storage.

The answer is that a lot of people use less than 16GB of storage. The more interesting question is why the 32GB doesn't exist.

I think it's because people either don't use much storage at all, like my mom or girlfriend who just use the iPhone for email, Safari, Twitter, Words with Friends, Facebook, and streaming music. For them, 16GB is more than enough.

Once you start collecting music, photos, videos and such, 32GB is not nearly enough, so 64GB kicks in. While 32GB would be enough for those in between casual users and media collectors... say those that just take a lot of pictures, but nothing else, the numbers of these people are too small to support a 32GB offering in the line up and Apple is better off bumping these people up to 64GB.

"Why?"

Because I'd rather have an iPhone than any other phone and an iPad than any other tablet. If they have to be jailed, then so be it. On the other hand, once I get my device, it's just that much better when it's jailbroken. I'm not rewarding bad behavior. Apple made their choice of how they wanted the platform to be, and most people are perfectly fine with that choice. My personal protest to the contrary wouldn't change one thing.

"Heck, wasn't the iSight the only webcam for Firewire? "

Nope, not even close. Not only were there dedicated FireWire based webcams, but almost every digital video camera had FireWire (and could be used as a webcam) until they went from tape to flash/HD.

People who see FireWire as some kind of failure must have been completely absent in the digital video industry for almost a decade.

I can get a new iPhone each year if I buy it myself. I get a subsidy with AT&T, and they can charge me whatever they want monthly as I charge that to my company.