I hate to break it to you, but aircraft don't use GPS for landing.

It's the difference between your car telling you to turn left "here" when it actually means the junction 45m up the road. Which admittedly could be an even bigger problem for the special kind of twit who already drives into walls "because the satnav told me to".

PLEASE tell me you're joking, calling the nanosim an LTE patent AND an 'original' patent. It's a SIM CARD with a few mm shaved off it. No functional difference whatsoever from a credit-card sized sim card (the original form factor). In fact, you could take an original credit card sized sim card and a pair of scissors, and make it work in any iPhone up to and including the 5.

Once again, they have successfully patented a shape. Please.

Hello. My 2011 Samsung Galaxy S2 (which is currently connected to my TV and Surround amp) called you and would like a word...

Been using touchscreen BB since the storm. Truly a horrible machine, hardware-wise, and the storm 2 wasn't much better. But, and I suspect I may be in a minority, I still prefer my storm 2 touchscreen to my SGS2 for one simple reason - the hardware "click". I've lost count of the number of times I've cursed at Android for following a link (i.e. picking up a 'click') when I'm actually just trying to scroll. Never happened on the BB, not even once.

As for bb and "keyboard-centeredness" I came from a Bold 9700 to the Storm, and if I had a time machine and could go back, I'd give up the keyboard in exchange for display real-estate again in a heartbeat, despite the shortcomings of the storm. I did curse, throw fits and desperately miss the physical keyboard for a couple of weeks but after that, I became accustomed to the touch keyboard and now don't miss the physical keyboard at all...

I'm not convinced the keyboard alone accounted for "80% of the popularity". For me I could care less - it's BBM and Push/Notifications that make it my choice of 'business' phone.

Are you perhaps referring to the Apple PDA (August '93) that they shamelessly copied from the Casio/Tandy Zoomer (June '92)

"We are so far above the law and so deep in government's pockets, that we can even have a sentence imposed that's double the legal maximum"

Message received, loud and clear.

I'm 52 now. I've lived from the "home taping is killing music" era of my first portable cassette player, until today - and yet I don't see any compelling evidence whatsoever of anything being killed.

I do hope I live long enough to see the ultimate demise of these "new, legal" organised crime bosses, when their business model finally implodes.

See the latest Apple patent, the nanosim. Look familiar?

See the latest Apple patent application, "autosave". Look familiar?

(I wonder if they also patented their new "save as" innovation, which not only "saves as" but overwrites the original.)

See the latest Apple patent application, "flexible flap add-on incorporating a flexible display". Look familiar?

It's a copy of the SGS2. They started the "na na nana na copycat copycat" war as a diversion.

Apple's following seems to have a disproportionate number of irrational, fanatical disciples who truly "believe". I hold them in the same regard as scientologists or indeed, members of any cult. That they're "satisfied" is no big surprise.

I know you're joking but if I think about it, I'm forced to admit I would buy that game.

1. Buy Facebook stock

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No, wait...

It is? Next time I'm in a crowded theater that's on fire I must remember not to shout "fire"

"makes MONEY" I don't know what happened to the m and the y, keyboard fart.

What kind of twisted reasoning could possibly lead you to that conclusion?

I disagree wholeheartedly but I'm open minded enough to argue WHY you think anyone should be responsible for someone else's comments.

By your logic, Slashdot is (partly?) responsible for THIS comment? And yours? Where do you draw the line? Why should the fact that Slashdot (presumably) makes one off running the site make a difference, why the distinction whether it's for-profit or non-profit?

Of course! We've written an "interesting things" filter just for you. You'll never need to see anybody's post blaspheming against Apple again. But we were stopped from releasing it because Apple already had the patent "method of displaying only nice things that make me happy" so we can't let you use it.