I guess I am not considering the linux kernel the OS in this case. My phone runs a version of the linux kernel as do the nodes on the supercomputer, but the many of the things around them are very different.

" The really interesting opportunity is to unify all of these different kinds of computing. Let's make one OS that runs on the phone AND on your supercomputer. "
That just sounds horribly efficient. The needs of the different types of computer platforms are all quite divergent. The small power saving OS on a tablet focused on user interactions has almost no relation to what is needed to run a petaflop computing platform. They may both be based off the same core kernel but to have the same code just seems daffy.

Here's a crazy idea. Instead of letting a third party, that sees you only as a money source, control your brand. Make your own site and control your brand. I really don't get companies using facebook at all.

Like all social media slashdot.ORG should be a property of the community not a some corp looking to gain profit.

Without a doubt. But I think the added cult of personality around Steve Jobs makes the apple fans more devoted.

Why is it that most times a mac mac speaks I feel like I am listening to a cultist.. oh wait... just answered my own question.
http://consumerist.com/2011/05/mri-shows-apple-stimulates-fans-brains-like-religion.html

I really thought when Jobs died they'd start waking up and stumble out into the light, like at the end of Logan's Run.

"Samsung's infringing sales have enabled Samsung to overtake Apple as the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world. Samsung has reaped billions of dollars in profits and caused Apple to lose hundreds of millions of dollars through its violation of Apple's intellectual property."

To anyone who's ever read reddit.

Since when is innovating "freaking out". There is a long standing tradition of trying many different form factors and designs. Well at least for companies not named Apple. It's exciting to see all these possibilities. Time to move behind the frankly terrible interface of a capacitive touchscrean only.

sweet at least my rep voted no

Being outsold by another product does not mean the windows phone interface isn't "lovely and intuitive" It just means you've been outsold. Consumers often do not chose based on the best product.

This tactic has worked well for apple over the last ten years.

keeping the incompetent employed.

Patents should have to be the property of a person not a corporation llc etc. And they should not be sellable. If the holder dies or becomes incompetent the patent becomes invalid. So easy and simple to fix the patent system. Too bad the big corps will never let it happen.