Except Apples shares plummeted under cooks leadership it has taken two years to recover some of it most based on market manipulation rather than actual success. Its profits continue to be based on the iphone in the American market...everything else is struggling including the ipad and that peaked two years ago. Apple is seeing shrinking margins and its first shrinking profits under Jobs.

The bottom line is that growth before came from successful launches of products...Cook has yet to show the world anything slashmydots is criticising later iterations of products Jobs launched as *new* markets, and people are buying competitors products more, because they are larger, faster, cheaper, newer, powerful blah blah blah

I have no idea how successful the iwatch will be, what I do know, it is already a long way from being perceived as being first. It is not walking into a market which has years of necessary frand patents. It is walking into a market with large companies Sony; Samsung; Google already having products(some on their second generation) and patents. Whatever the iwatch looks like they changed the game...and it is costing them now. Oh and I like the look of the Motorola 360 too, so its looking pretty good for an unlauched product.

Ignoring the fact that when the ipad mini came out it was the low resolution device (1024×768 px at 163 ppi). Steve jobs had already launched the iphone 4 with its *cough* retina display (960×640 at 326 ppi) two years earlier.

You seen to forget that Jobsy(I like to park in handicapped space) was not the density of pixles...bit the size of the display to quote the foul smelling genius "It's meaningless unless your table includes sandpaper," Jobs said, "so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of their present size." He said 7-inch screens were actually 45 per cent the size of an iPad, which wasn't sufficient.

"Apple has done extensive user testing and we really understand this stuff," he added. "There are clear limits on how close you can place things on a touchscreen, which is why we think 10 inches is the minimum screen size to create great tablet apps.

Lets not start using words like "universal truths"(sic) when you are at best misinformed

I actually don't care about systemd. I personally welcome the change. It was actually Fedora that actually implemented systemd first. The detractors...I guess your one, claim it will be a mess like Pulseaudio, I love Pulseaudio, what I hope is it gets managed better than Pulseaudio.

Gnome is not causing failures!! It is at best a misguided attempt to Tabletify the Gnome desktop with Gnome shell(ok it is messing with the best file manager too)...and results on a 22" (lets be honest even a 15") screen are disastrous(even their developers are walking away from it). Ubuntu's clashing Unity interface...albeit slightly better than standard Gnome, clashes in all kinds of ways(Its f***ing QT for for a start), and they are actually forking components. My last fix was to use Cinnamon, which was like a beautiful remix of Gnome current beating it into submission, and giving me a solution BETTER than any desktop...only to fork Gnome not work with it. Mate is everything you loved about Gnome 2...except at an evolutionary dead end. That leaves XFCE4(Which I am loving) which is a great replacement for Gnome...better in many ways (4.10 anyway), yet its support and Development is so slow Its release is currently a many many months behind users are actually questioning whether its alive...It is just well...

The last thing anyone wants is to fix to Gnomes failures(sic) what people want is a Cathedral approach or the Bazaar to kick in to satisfy today's many versions or personal computing, but we are now choosing between broken;mismatched;patched up; frozen; glacial...with no end in sight.

Yes...but it allows those same large features to be rolled out sooner...regressions fixed...blah blah blah. In reality many programs are rolled out several times a year. Safari got a massive improvement this release(it had the largest share of news)...firefox/chrome will simply carry on adding features and releasing several times this year.

I have been playing https://www.humblebundle.com/ Humble Bundle PC and Android...are all those games available on iOS too, can you install them? At least you can still run them on OS X for now.

Seriously 10 or as fruit lovers say X

Ignoring the Low class moves of attacking Android, a platform that continues in hypergrowth while Apple continues to fall behind...Peak Happle happened in 2012. The best thing iOS 8 will not be available in the STILL ON SALE iPhone 4. That is a big fuck you from Apple to its customers.

...I suspect most of these will be discussed over the next weeks...my favourite topic. Is the one that makes Bill Gates spit coffee over his keyboard and shout "first smartphones, then tablets...now fucking house tech...If he says magical. I will burn their house down"

cue fanboys chanting "we are first"

For those who missed the internet(or using ie6) here is my link to Bill Gates The Road Ahead in paperback... http://www.amazon.com/Ahead-My... Which clearly the fuckers at Latte read.

...ooh look an update to Safari...another topic.

Actually I love the idea of regular releases...and free ones too. Ignoring my slights in my other posts the fact that upgrades are free and regular, makes overpriced Apple hardware seem a little more affordable...If I was a new Apple phone user, and found I liked a lot there...and there is a lot to like, I would be tempted to Migrate to a shiny machine...Although you would have to claw Linux running on commodity hardware out of my bleeding hands first.