"Non-product" research? Not sure what you're getting at. Why would Apple spend money doing R&D on something that they'd never use?

Apple will be the ones who are going to bring high-DPI displays into the mainstream in the next few years. If you don't like Apple, just wait a bit longer because every other manufacturer will follow their lead shortly.

Are you serious? I thought government organisations weren't allowed to discriminate with the help of such "psychological" quizzes and such. Is this in the USA?

Agreed, top quality body armour is a formidable force multiplier. It's like the US Army vs. insurgents. If you're not wearing modern body armour with plate inserts, you're severely disadvantaged.

Fair point, but that's modern life. Nothing stays still, things are constantly evolving. Things are born and die off. Just look at MySpace now.

Why would Android be a crazy stretch for a search engine and advertising company? Android supports their core business by extending Google services everywhere. They don't make money off Android directly, that's why it's open source.

Sounds to me like they're consolidating their projects and experiments and focusing on the ones which can drive and support their core business (advertising), which is what any sensible corporation does.

Yeah unlike the UK where an innocent Brazilian electrician gets hunted down by plain clothes police and shot seven times in the head. And then the police get off scot-free, nobody involved is ever punished, while the police obstruct justice, lie about and cover up their errors and work hard to smear the murdered man's reputation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes

No fucking thanks.

It's a kind of self-preservation tactic. Usually by people who are insecure, selfish and opportunistic.

For example, in Australia I've noticed that there are a significant number of ethnic minority politicians who sign up with the larger right-wing parties who are always very anti-illegal immigrant/anti-asylum seeker etc.

I think of it as a kind of collaboration with the occupiers. Ally yourself with the all-powerful and suck up to them so that they don't persecute you as well.

Hmm I dunno, I don't think there is much difference between disgust and hate.

This is exactly how the right-wingers and shock jocks portray refugees/asylum seekers and other "undesirables" such as Muslims in Australia. Queue jumpers, illegals, terrorists, organised criminals/gangsters, persecutors of Christianity. "The illegals want to come here and change our way of life and dictate how we live our lives" and other such lies. The illegals/Muslims spit on the street, rape your teenage daughters, etc. Oh, and the "reverse racism" card gets played a lot too.

"The illegals are racist against us (White Anglo-Saxon Australians)!!!!" and "We are being racially demonised in our own country!"

It's all very calculated and it happens with the tacit approval of the government which remains largely silent about this kind of insidious propaganda.

Because digital distribution is the future.

Relax, pirates and hackintosh fans will still crack and install Lion, no doubt.

I know your comment is supposed to be funny, but on the serious side I doubt these youngsters would turn on the NK regime. They're so thoroughly brainwashed they're far more likely to remain loyal to the bitter end.

I hear Division has several positions currently open in their Cleaner programme.

You can encrypt the backup that iTunes stores on your computer, so not just "anybody" can read the data with a simple application.

iOS isn't so different from Android in this instance. Don't let that stop the hate fest, of course.

I see you've already been modded down. Remember, this is Slashdot, Apple is always evil and everything Google does is always good. Don't break the groupthink.

The iPhone 4 is much better now in this regard, the oleophobic coating actually works. I rarely notice my fingerprints on the screen.

My original iPad and original iPhone 1st gen are pretty horrible with fingerprint smudges constantly visible. I've been told the iPad 2 is still the same in this regard.