The gawker staff accounts is a different issue, but forcing you to have an account just to comment caused lot of this problem.

I used one of these accounts once to post a comment and don't even remember the password. It's probably a crap password but because I don't remember it I needed to change everything else. Thanks Gawker

It requires effort on Apple's part to make these things changeable and tweakable. That's effort on top of the effort to get it to "just work". They appear to have come to the conclusion that they get better results, however they judge that, by spending those resources on different work and features rather than adding reconfigurability to existing features.

Some companies do enough work to get the system working. Others get it working and then spend effort adding the kind of configurability you want. Apple does gets it working and spends extra effort on it's style of polish. I can't think of anyone that does both Apple's type of UI polish and high configurability. Each of these companies is doing what they feel is worth most to them and at least indirectly what it feels it can use to appeal to customers.

Each style offers the companies and customers trades offs between different values and everybody makes different decisions based on their preferences.

You have freedom of choice, choose to buy something else. It seems like you just don't want others to make the choice you wouldn't

Unfortunately, the SDK agreement explicitly says that the code must be originally written in one of the approved languages (C, C++, Objective-C). And yes, technically this means that any use of inline assembler is forbidden (e.g. to optimize part of a 3D engine, even the rest is completely written in C), which does not make any sense whatsoever either.

It makes plenty of sense if you don't assume that the iPhone will always have same CPU architecture.

[blockquote]What am I missing here?[/blockquote]

The fact that you're wrong. You should actually try things instead of just doing thought experiments.

On a touch in safari when you click on a youtube video it opens the video in the youtube player and plays just fine. This works if the video came from youtube.com directly or was embedded in another site.

It was a tough choice between modding this funny and replying to explain the joke. 5 of the first 10 links are to the same crappy article from a guy who didn't want it in the first place, 1 is a guy who's returning his for an upgrade to more storage and 3g and the rest aren't relevant, including an apple support page.

Pretty big chorus there guy.

Really? He said that? How incredibly surprising.

Japan has had 3D over the air broadcast for a while now. Channel BS11 shows several hours of 3D every day. You can get a special Hyundai TV that detects and plays the 3D.

Modern 3D uses circular polarized glasses. Linear Polarized glassed require that your head uncomfortably still because if you tip your head you got ghosting.

If you saw 3D in a theater 10, 20 years ago you were wearing linear polarized glasses. If you did you might remember the neck pain you came out of the theater with.

3) Perhaps they took out the express slot because not enough of their customers wanted it. I have a MacBook Pro and never saw the use for it.

The only thing I've ever seen used in the MBP expresscard slot is an expresscard SD reader.

I don't really care if the HDD install make games load faster. I want them to run quieter. The XBox optical drive is loud.