Aside their collaboration with IBM and Motorola for the development of PowerPC; from the development of A4, A5, A6 series CPU's, they don't design CPU's, they never had.*

*sarcasm

Because most shipments get stolen at customs or by the post service personnel. It sucks but even for Mexico is hard to buy parts in USA. Is easier, cheaper, faster an sometimes even more reliable to ask someone that is on a trip to USA than buy online.

Exactly. Everybody talks now about iPhone and iPad because those two products became a money printing machine for Apple, but the original iMac and the eMac were astounding products at its time. After all, the eMac became a consumer product by popular demand, not because Apple expected it to be sold outside the education market.

Still, what Google trough Motorola is trying to do is to pull a Rambus over wireless networking technology. Thats as low they can get. If Microsoft's case is meritless then it should be discarded, but Google nor Samsung, or the holding managing Nortel patents shouldn't use standard essential patents in this way. What's next? HP should have many networking patents of their own, and from their purchases of DEC and Palm. Shall we pay to HP every time we purchase a printer with a NIC?

The visceral reaction to Android by Jobs was due the fact that Google's Smichdt was on Apple's board at the time of the initial development of the iPhone and it was really hard not to say that he was more of a corporate spy than a honest board member from a partner company, at least from Jobs POV. Who wouldn't be pissed of because being backstabbed by a person you trusted?

If I were in this company's shoes I would negotiate with Apple a way to offer at least a partial refund to my customers. That would be a sincere apology.

Only if the device can be jailbroken you can use pirated software in it. If you are using the most recent version of the OS at this time you simply can't do it, what more do you expect them to do? All the jailbreaks are basically methods to break the security model of the OS.

Aside from that, any working adult would understand the feeling of lord Vader at the end of the movie. Fortunately, most of us don't have enough knowledge of the Force to choke to death the people that p**s us off.

I agree. I think that unless ARM or the chip design team of Apple had shown to Apple's board something like the Core series that Otellini displayed to Steve Jobs the idea of dropping Intel CPUs for the OS X devices is insane.

Didn't Intel started to offer foundry services? If Apple makes Intel an offer they can't reject Apple could start to offer their products using chips one process node behind Intel but one process node ahead of their competitors. The increases in battery life and speed could make them like the Microsoft-Intel combo of the 1990's, and still being able to charge a good premium in their products. See thunderbolt for an example of Apple-Intel collaboration.

Because the USA's economy at this time sucks for almost everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or age and that is a big drawback for any incumbent and his party in any barely functioning democracy. That's why I think republicans had the election in the bag, but by pandering too much to their extreme right wing they ended losing. See

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/07/us/politics/obamas-diverse-base-of-support.html?ref=politics
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/poll-latino-vote-devastated-gop-even-worse-than-exits-showed.php?ref=fpa

From the NYT I'm impressed with the strong push toward democrats by young voters in Arizona.

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The problem for Republicans was that they instead of using Clinton's "It's the economy stupid!" to get the election in the bag they conceded all the racial minorities votes to the Democrats, they created a handicap for themselves of 20-30% of the electorate. On top of that, they alienated women, that are the majority of population, regardless of race, they alienated religious moderates that are a majority of Americans and with their hate against gays they alienated not only the LGBT community, but also the young population that have friends in that community. The Republicans played this election to lose.

On the other hand, maybe the strong criticism in a high profile website like Slashdot will hopefully make them improve their behavior. Their design is a bit childish, but some of the ergonomic requirements of a gamer apply for anyone that spends a long time at a desktop PC.

Thank you for a good laugh :). A pathetic attempt at ad hominem from The Examiner.

The problem with Lego an all similar construction toys with small kids is fixed by having a line of toys catering to young kids, with pieces with a size large enough that not even an adult could swallow.