We all know Jobs has a magnetic plug fetish. Jobs managed to get a bunch of nerds having a conversation about female holes getting plugged with magnetic cut-off jacks. He is probably enjoying reading this entire thread right now on his iPhone 6 and practically having an igasam.

Steve wants to force you to buy a $20 adapter that costs $0.03 to manufacture.

Java is the only one of those 3 languages that uses a virtual machine. Not sure why you lumped C# in with Java.

Angry Jobs maybe. He's pissed that China just leaked that they are in talks with Apple. Not even the Chinese government are permitted to speak of secret Apple deals in the works.

I wonder why bonch is so interested in making sure everybody gives Apple the respect and worship he feels they are due?

$20M is a rounding error of a rounding error to Apple. Apple has more money and power than most nations.

Whindows partitions getting whiped and their machines whork? Suddenly? I can't whait!

In that case, it wasn't the bitcoin-specific activity that was illegal. It was the acquisition of the botnet that was illegal. It would not be the bitcoin folks who would take issue with this guy. It would be the people who's machines he hacked. This whole debate has *nothing* to do with bitcoin. The guy could have used the botnet to perform a DoS attack. He could have used it to run a spam operation. He could have done nothing at all with it. In either case we are talking about the hacker here and the fact that he hacked unwitting people's computers and took over their GPU's without their permission. That's the activity that was illegal. Nothing to do with bitcoin.

Your problem is that you don't understand how bitcoin works. It's not like fiat currency that you can illegally print if you steal a printer. There is only one way to get bitcoin. It can't be counterfeited. It's just like gold. You can't print counterfeit gold. If you could somehow chemically convert lead to gold the resulting gold would not be a counterfeit. It would be real gold and be valued the same as all other real gold. And the only reason gold has value is because people value it. Gold is intrinsically nothing more than a metal. Bitcoin are nothing more than bits tracked and distributed.

It doesn't have all of the same problems our currency has today. If you bought yourself a massive super-computer you could do exactly the same thing this guy did. And the Bitcoin community would benefit from your participation in their system. This guy just stole his supercomputer instead of buying one. That doesn't reflect negatively at all on Bitcoin.

Mod parent up. There will always be platform wars on all levels. Hardware-level, OS-level, browsers, cloud wars, media format wars. Even wars between differing implementations of open standards. There will never be a time where there isn't a heavy battle for market share and control on every level. It's what drives everything forward. It's what kills off bad ideas and good ideas. It's the hallmark of any full-fledged ecosystem.

Just google "Apple". The right product will have a little glowing apple logo with a bite out of it. Trust me. They make the best stuff.

It doesn't matter. If Apple has not gotten into wireless charging that means nobody's done it correctly. When Apple finally does it only then will it be right and proper. Your Braun charger is merely a sloppy fragmented immature product concept that never caught on like the iPhone. You should be ashamed. No go out and by an Apple product that you can finally be proud of for the first time in your life.

Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital, etc will fade slowly into extinction much like the 3.5" floppy disk. Heavy competition from SSDs will force these companies to consolidate together just to stay alive. Eventually nobody will want to buy a mechanical drive anymore. Mechanical HD companies will not begin manufacturing SSDs because they are not set up at all to fab silicon. Only the RAM & CPU shops are. And, surprise, look at all the SSD manufacturers they are yesterday's RAM manufacturers.

You guys are all missing the point. eBay missed the boat. They blew their whole wad on SSD failing to realize that GE just announced a new age of optical Nirvana.