well, my advice to them would be to stop selling it, of course, but it seems that the marketing scum have been running too much at microsoft, and the people who build their actual products running too little ... and it finally caught up with them. it's difficult to claim with a straight face that windows XP is a supportable configuration except on legacy boxes. microsoft should run, not walk, away from that train wreck.

apple keeps ramping up the pointless restrictions and i keep looking for another smartphone with minimal moving parts -- no slidey shit, no foldy shit, and definitely no no no physical keypad. i won't buy a pre. it's got all the planned-failure mechanical parts that i bought an iphone to avoid, even if the OS is the most promising thing i've seen in a year.

the best candidate right now looks like the HTC magic/G2/mytouch/whatchamacallit, although it's still got that nasty trackball, and that disastrous headphone adapter thing, both of which will hopefully be gone by the android phone that's shipping next time i'm shopping for a phone.

i basically want something with a good browser, nice fonts (so, never a blackberry), passable email, a passable library of apps, and as few moving parts as possible. right now the iphone is the thing that comes closest to meeting those criteria, even though apple's restrictive behavior has been juvenile and borderline illegal.

honestly, you don't have a clue anywhere in the same county as what you're talking about. you're embarrassing yourself. you don't even seem to be aware of the penalties for concerted action. this is open and shut, and you're hung up on being a fan of a brand. get over it.

this is clearly a play to prevent any competitor from offering the service-unifying technology Google is offering. the suspicious "duplication of functionality" clause on the EULA is practically an admission of this. taken together with the huge number of "approved" apps that do duplicate functionality shipped with the base OS, it's clear that Apple wants to pick and choose who is allowed to duplicate what functionality -- specifically, they will permit apps that violate this EULA clause only as long as they don't interfere with Apple/AT&T's ability to restrain trade. sure, AT&T Unified Messaging is not exactly the same thing as Google Voice, but you'd have to try pretty hard to convince yourself that this isn't a brazen attempt to protect that service against competition. these actions are federal felonies under the sherman act.

apple are very obviously engaging in illegal anticompetitive behavior here. i need them to relent on this and permit google to distribute this application, or i am going to flee immediately into the waiting arms of t-mobile the moment my contract is up. apple's management of the app store can only be described, honestly, as mentally ill.

the basic interface of the GUI web browser has not changed appreciably since NCSA Mosaic, for crying out loud. you have a URL bar with some buttons on the left and maybe some buttons on the right, and a display pane for the page itself below that. i can't even begin to guess what you think is so different between MSIE 6 and MSIE 7/8 and Firefox and Chrome and Safari. they're all the same basic interface. and in the details where MSIE differs, it's easily the worst of the bunch.

the aluminum apple keyboard is absolutely horrific to type on. it is the single worst keyboard i have ever used, and nothing else even comes close. it is too low to the desk, it has crappy rubber mush switches, and the keycaps are rounded at the edges so your fingers get lost. my fingers start to hurt after about 20 minutes of typing on one of these nasty little keyboards. they're just awful.

now, the apple extended keyboard ii, that's a good keyboard.

most keyboards don't have microprocessors and memory. he didn't pick an apple keyboard for attention out of a field of identically vulnerable keyboards. he picked it because it was a special example with odd specifications that enable this attack.

there are a few logictech keyboards he could have picked (the programmable ones with the LCD and all that), but no, this is not some widespread problem. this is an apple keyboard issue.