How long will it be until we drop the "i" and just start calling them keys. What a great invention, something to open locks.

Apple is even helping us deter theft. Will their wonderfulness never cease. What next? Will they invent analog clocks perhaps?

Neither is a file server or a database until you put in the proper controls, security, and encryption. I would imagine a secure email server with proper controls and data protections would be compliant as well.

Why couldn't you flatter one site 20 times out of the 100?

I bet Yale's medical school would fall under HIPAA rules and would need to protect medical records of folks they work with. I would also bet Google's privacy rules and data handling are not HIPAA compliant.

you summed up what I wanted to know so I will just copy it all. Deef Pirmasens, the blogger who discovered the passages taken from “Strobo,” said that he could understand a few words or phrases seeping into the work through inspiration, but that he quickly noticed that there were too many for it to be a coincidence. “To take an entire page from an author, as Helene Hegemann admitted to doing, with only slight changes and without asking the author, I consider that illegitimate,” Mr. Pirmasens said. Entire pages verbatim? She is the Vanilla Ice of literature sampling then.

Steve Jobs is so lucky to have so many sheep like you, I mean users.

The iSheep don't care, their Sheppard Steve Jobs knows what is best for them.

FINALLY, \. moderators aren't moding down every negative but valid apple comment.

Don't try and waste an Apple fans' time with things like facts.

Like the first poster that erroneously claims there are no software patent violation claims.

Actually the opposite would happen. Consider that the chicken is the most succesful bird currently for a few reasons, It is: fat, tasty, and slow, and defenseless.

Consider if farmers were not keeping foxes and cats away from them, I do not think they would be as successful.

To further your good argument, Apple sells Mac OS X by itself.

Since you didn't post to my Apple bashing anonymously, I will explain myself...

My impression and limited experience of Mac users has been folks who genuinely think Apple is innovative. I believe they are not. They take existing technology and perhaps make it more mature by adding a good interface to it. I give them credit for making things like mp3 players more mainstream but they did it by trying to pushing their own format. In the end they are bad for the industry and I am glad their strategy of keeping everything closed failed the last time around they were a heavy player.

Very simply, if "Apple" in the article was replaced with the less word hip "Sony" all the Apple fans would not be happy.

I never do never will

but I do point out when a company continuously acts like a fool. The bigger fools of course are the users who overpay and support it because they like having a more closed system as long as the interface is shinier.

Apple did it so it can't be bad