I want to use the cloud to create a centralized storage for all my photos and sentimental data but it seems like even the biggest providers sell or close down. Its happened to me several times over the last 10 years.

Then there is the bright idea of buying a huge HD and putting it on my network. Except the quality of HDs has gone down and I have lost a couple.

The only medium that has been consistent for me is backing up to DVD or CD.

Seriously. One phone on one carrier has 21% of the market while, while a dozen other phones on several different carriers have 28% of the market... Many, they had to give away for free!

I think Apple still wins. And definitely AT&T wins since it sells Apple, Android, and BlackBerry.

"children put a cell phone to their heads, themselves"

Regardless if a child does something, how does that justify what a doctor does?

If we were to apply the logic of what you just said, you are saying its OK for a doctor to put a child's hand in a light-socket because a child is likely to do it themselves. That's nonsense.

I agree with you. Billions of dollars go into R&D in the USA. Would corporations keep spending that money if their product was so successful it became a standard and they lost control of the supply?

Business is about controlling supply while demand is high. Additionally, this would probably hurt efforts of standardization because business would calculate just how much success their products would need to maximize return BEFORE standardization - as well as develop competing technologies to their own product.

Its a puerile concept that everything of value should be socialized by society.

How does one find a grain of sand in the snow of a polar ice cap AND figure out that it is from outer space!?

Doctors are putting a cell phone that causes nearly all my other gadgets to buzz next to the developing brain of a child?

Actually, a pacifist will use physical force when necessary... such as defense, defense of others, and destruction of property. Even Ghandi, on occasion, supported the use of force.

You might want to look up "open platform" as well.

"No-one asks Apple to develop in Flash, or even to explicitly support Flash."

Your comment contradicts itself. And you might be confusing the Flash player with the Flash development tools - which are using a proprietary development language.

Flash is proprietary ***language***. I swear, you people are either incapable of reading comprehensively or choose not to. And you get an F in syntax. Job's use of "open" is clearly in regards to ***developer language***. Why on Earth should a hardware developer like Apple design their products around another company's proprietary language!? ...That's a D in business-sense. (Adobe should design their products around Apple's OS and hardware.)

As for the app store, it is open but with restrictions. Apple allows 3rd party apps, but it retains the right to screen out that apps that conflict with it's business plan and key user demographics (family, education). If the app store were truly closed, there would be no 3rd party apps. As a share holder of Apple, I agree with their policy.

Obama makes more promises than there are stars in the sky! As with every proceeding president, planning for events beyond one's term is irrelevant bull-pucky. If a president wants to actually make something happen, it has to happen within in his two terms.

Instead of pursuing an unproven trajectory for our space industry, we who should go back to the moon first. We have the technology to do that and it can be assembled quickly.

The benefit of reaching the moon again is two-fold.
1) We prevent other nations from dominating and dictating the space industry (There are about 16 nations with declared moon-ambitions)
2) We study and prepare the moon for other solar system exploration.

Experts say using the moon as a launching station will save tons of money on fuel and materials. Vessels launched from the moon do not need to survive the stress of the Earth's atmosphere. The moon has the potential to provide some of the necessary resources. Additionally, vessels launched from the moon can use nuclear propulsion systems since they won't be a threat to the Earth and the Earth's atmosphere.

As a general rule from experience, any promise from a president beyond his terms is an empty promise because the next president will simply cancel it as Obama, himself, has done.

Was this comment necessary? Grow up.

The vulnerable user demographic are *Windows users* of the iPad, not iPad users in general.