......as bad as the handset makers/carriers for Android phones are at getting updates out, most of these handsets will be obsolete by the time this 'update' gets pushed out.

Who cares?

If the only way these things will sell is at firesale prices, then you can guarantee that there will be no long term supply, hence not worth the ongoing efforts of a developer. Just bury them in the desert next to the unused Atari cartridges and move on with your life.

... among the remaining executives at RIM anyway. Elsewhere, nobody cares what they are doing.

That would be 15% of the tablets owned by members of RIM's executive team.

I do not know what Fantasy world you come from in which the world is teaming with highly educated and rational older people and somehow the youth managed to get stupid.

I see an endless sea of older people who supposedly were the students of this formally great education system and I am not impressed.

is that it makes me feel even better about no longer working for General Dynamics.

Having a chalk board in a rrom does not cause education to take place, but if it is well used it can be helpful to the process.

Giving a kid a computer is only slightly better than giving them a chalk board. If you provide tools and guidence and use the tool well then you have a chance an real learning.

You make an interesting observational point, that mant piss-poor drivers are indeed using cell phones. But in every state in the country we have a varaity of laws on the books to deal with this behavior. Many (most?) states have distracted driving laws as a catch all, but outside of this the driver can be charged with tailgating, failure to maintain their lane, changing lanes w/o signaling, failure to obey a highway sign, the hits just keep on coming.

Wrap up three or four of these in a stop and the need for an additonal law seems rather anticlimactic.

If you feel the need to use the term so many times in a paragraph, perhaps you should spend the time to learn what the word means.

Perhaps he is referring to the complications of updating the OS when your handset maker/ cell carrier sold you a phone that is several revisions out of date and they refuse to make current updates available to you.

dmr,

Thank you for all that you have done. May you now rest in peace.

You do realize that this story is about AOL, correct spelling would simply be out of plase.

.. but there last geek quite, so now the data center must fend for itself.

Rest in peace Mr. Jobs.

This would not be inline with the Genius Bar, which is there to help people resolve problems users have experienced with their Apple technology.

One thing that Apple does better than almost any other tech company is that they say No to most items that are not relevant to their goals. They do not load up their stores with extra padding items in order to try to sell a few more units, unless they think that it fits in with the use of their key products. When you launch a new Mac, you are not hit over the head with loads of crap-ware which the system vendor managed to make an extra 30 bucks by hoisting upon you.

Picking up the short buck is not worth tarnishing the brand. To bad few other tech vendors will be able to figure this out.