Please. A SIM card is not a major investment. Your provider will give you a replacement your SIM (in any form factor they support) for a nominal fee. That's not lock-in. Lock-in is what Apple originally did with iTunes DRM. They made a proprietary format that could only be played with Apple hardware and software. as a result, people could not switch to another manufacturer's portable media player without having to repurchase all of their music. Hence, they were locked in.

The extra S is for shemale

This is where you lost me, pal.

So wait... are you saying that the blind people who laud the iPad for its accessibility are wrong? I know I'm focusing on a single disability, but the fact that some blind people think the iPad is easy to use must mean that Apple doesn't totally suck at accessibility. I mean, it's a giant screen with 1 button on it, and friggin blind people can use it.

[Insert fanboy rant here about how Apple sucks and why do people still buy Apple stuff when I tell them every day how much it sucks and why are you walking away from me and abloobloobloo]

I thought Apple was widely noted for its accessibility features. I've read a few articles about how great the iPad is for blind people. Did I miss a joke here?

You might want to check your phrasing. Saying that the polar ice caps are "not supposed to be there" is nonsensical. How did they get there? Did god spilled a glass of ice water? I think the point you're trying to make is: There was a time when the polar ice caps didn't exists, and primates still managed to survive (evidently). Sorry to nitpick.

The effect of pollution and deforestation on the planet is an acceleration of natural climate change, which is leading to the melting of the polar ice caps! So yes, you're correct: We need to seriously curtail pollution and deforestation to reduce the anthropogenic portion of climate change. But the melting polar ice caps are a big deal.

I like that you put that much effort into replying to a troll

I don't get it... why can't you use MPG to compare gasoline to diesel? If diesel has more energy per unit volume, then cars with diesel engines should have a higher MPG rating, right? What am I missing?

This is a joke, right? I mean, Textmate isn't even made by Apple.

Ok, yeah. This totally is a joke. I'm being trolled. Right?

Rock on, dude. Keep mixin them metaphors.

SWT uses Cocoa nowadays and it's not terrible. It may not meet Apple's standards, but I use Eclipse on a Mac and find it pretty unoffensive.

I really hope Apple will do something worthwhile with their JVM code... Ideally they'd donate it to the open source community, but even handing it over to Oracle would be better than nothing. Apple may call Java "deprecated", but it's not going anywhere. There's way too much Java code out there, especially in enterprise applications.

What is with the fucking sheep. Be original and think of another herd animal. You're just like the other sheeple comparing people to sheep.

Do you think that the average Mac user is dumber than the average Windows user? Because I know lots of Windows users who double click links. I know people who click Edit -> Copy every time because they don't know that there are about a million faster ways to put something on the clipboard. The other day, the IT guy at work told me that Windows 7 needs to be rebooted daily. Let's just say that most computer users are stupid when it comes to computers.

First, it looks a lot like LaunchPad will be available to all apps, not just apps downloaded from the app store. Second, the Mac App Store strategy is exactly the strategy pursued by Android, but people love it there. Yes, novice users will primarily get their apps from the app store and yes, many developers will strive to get their apps into the app store. This is not a bad thing, because

No, it didn't. Developers who make apps that don't fit Apple's ludicrous standards will continue to distribute those apps the same way they always have. Most average users wouldn't use those apps anyway. Average users don't install Launchbar.

I think you're being a little dramatic -- the app store will probably encourage indie developers to write more Mac software.

Am I just being an obnoxious Apple apologist? This whole issue feels like a tempest in a teacup. It just isn't a big deal.

If you're gonna troll someone, at least have the guts to login first.

If you only use an application occasionally, why do you care how current it is? Actually, I'd argue that that's a good reason to defer updating until you run the application. I'm not saying there shouldn't still be an option to update every app in a single go (which Sparkle can't do), but I'd hardly call it a must-have.

I don't think that the lack of "1-Click" updates (do I owe Amazon money for that?) is a big deal. A lot of Mac apps use a framework called Sparkle to notify users when there's an update and give them the option to download & install the new version and it works very well. Granted, having 2 different ways to do the same thing doesn't create the ideal user experience, but it's something that's done infrequently enough that I don't think it will be a major issue. In any case, it's a hell of a lot better than asking the average user to use apt.

Not being able to use LaunchPad could wind up being a much bigger problem. Launching applications is kinda the whole point of an operating system. Users shouldn't have to know or care where the applications came from. Frankly, I'm amazed that Apple (or any software company for that matter) would ship something like that.