You will never buy a driverless car for exactly this reason (will be beyond our lifetimes). There will be drive-assist vehicles, with the driver always expected to be alert in case of emergencies.

If he was simply a whisteblower for NSA spying on Americans I would agree. However, possibly during negotiations for asylum, he told other countries how we were spying on them.

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I want us spying on Russia and China - and I don't want them knowing how we do it. This information should have been kept to himself.

This is the non-ultrabook style that is very easily upgraded.

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro

How about bringing up the fact that LG is cheating on benchmarks just like samung? http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks

How about bringing up the fact that the LG G2 is about half the performance of the 5s in benchmarks that aren't cheated?
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph7335/58181.png
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph7335/58170.png

Only companies worth buying from right now are Moto and Apple.

There is no reason to believe that Google and Facebook ads, which both are more successful on iOS, are statistically different from other advertising platforms.

Check out the ads they are placing into the default gmail app. They will slowly add them to all bundled google services on Android.

Probably because they refuse to make a cheap phone. Apple continues to grow at a rapid pace in the United States, where phones are subsidized and we have higher average incomes. Android's growth is in 3rd world countries through cheap, low end phones. http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/10/comScore_Reports_August_2013_US_Smartphone_Subscriber_Market_Share

Battery life still behind the iPhone: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph7376/58409.png

Browser speed still behind the iPhone: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph7376/58440.png

Graphics performance still behind the iPhone: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph7376/58425.png

For a device this much larger and heavier, you would expect they could overclock the chipset and get more performance than this.

Quotes like this add to the 'Apple is Doomed' mantra.

Apple makes more profit from smartphones than every other manufacturer in the world (including Samsung) combined. Raw marketshare by selling low-cost devices isn't Apple, evident by the pricing of the 5c.

Stock is trending down due to concerns over margins. Nothing to do with brand perception.

And unless those devices were stolen, they are actual purchased devices. More accurate than IDC shipments.

IDC counts shipments, not sales. The original galaxy tab was estimated by the IDC at over 2 million shipments, but later we learned it sold more like 50k. Web browsing numbers show the ipad at around 88% of marketshare, which counts actual purchased devices.

What pants are people wearing that a Galaxy Note is easily pocketable? Fat Pants? The iPhone 5 is almost getting too large to fit in reasonable pockets.

we measured innovation by how BIG we could make computers?

I don't either. 5" is outrageous for a phone.

It was meant to take months to clear inferno, regardless of how you received the gear. You don't see end-game dungeons in MMOs being cleared within a few weeks of a game being launched.

Problem was Diablo players are used to mindless fun, not excruciating difficulty. The other problem was some classes were based on avoidance, while others mitigation. Better mitigation comes from better gear, meaning these players were behind the curve. Players who played the avoidance classes well were able to clear Inferno very quickly. A game that can be completed solo should not favor one type of class over another.