So, you are a bit angry that you cannot punch THEM on their noses, aren't you ? Oh boy...

Interesting thought that "they" will use it as an argument to further restrict the Internet... That is scary indeed. But on the other hand : it would ultimately educate us where "they" are standing...

What about unguilty unless proven otherwise ? To the best of my knowledge wikileaks has not been Convicted for any Crime. For example : would mc and vc stop their relationship with a fortune 500 company because the CEO was possibly but not proven corrupt ? Don't think so. It is in the power of the court to judge what is illegal and what is not. With that act mc and cc actually Convicted an organisation and Punished it. The way I understand democracy this should only be the job of judges.

I think they are just to Late in the Game. The sudden Drop of wm 6 shocked many business customers. And now I believe it is mostly the "who needs another platform" reason

I am not yet having a solit attitude about wiki leaks. But one thing comes for sure into my mind. By the end of world war one when there where those optimistic efforts and ideas to give the world a new order and reduce the risk for new wars there was one thing politicians identified as one source of great danger : secret diplomacy. And if I remembered corectly, the us Pesident Wilson wanted to ban secret diplomacy completely. Of course it did not came to that. But it still makes you thinking... Maybe wiki leaks is on the right track. Forcing the government to tell the truth from the first minute one because they learned nothing can and will be a secret for long... Doesn't sound that wrong to me. Of course they have to change the very heart of modern politics for that. But that doesn't sound too bad to me either.

I feel so autistic when I read this ... 50 SMS ? the average ? I think I peak at 20 ... rarely

but you realize that her eyesight isnt that important anymore as soon as that Buick is controlled by a computer, right ? :-) ... can be yontinued with your other points a guess.

I agree - or maybe there are even more terrorists with no engineering capabilities - but they blow them selves up too early in there homes or on some testing site without further notice - so only the highly educated once make it into the media :-)

I would assume they already had plenty of fun regarding the iPhone by watching the famous balmer interview over and over again :)

With all the Hype they announced it with and the - at least technical - potential to be the next big thing in collaboration and communication...
I really thought they had long term plans with it.
AM I missing something here ?
I mean... 2 years for a paradigm shift ? Seems a bit optimistic for me.
I wished they had given wave more time to evolve and develop.

Reminds me of an innovation forum some time ago where I gave a short presentation of wave to some customers.
One of them kept saying about every wave feature: "but I can do this with tool y and that with tool x" and so on.
Finally he realized that he was going with 4 tools that he had to integrate - where wave could have solved the same problems on its own.

Anyway - I have to go... have some data migration on my schedule today ... ;-)

Think of the numbers what you like
I think you can say the customer satisfaction of the iphone 4 is remarkable.
Even more if you consider the amount of bad press they got.
For me the answer is, that apple successfully managed a transition of reception of their devices.
Customers don't see iPhones as phone anymore but rather as mobile computing and app platforms.
That means the phone is just another app ( although no doubt an important one) on the device.
I really think this is the main point here:
If the iPhone was still mainly a phone in the customers perception, the bad press regarding the reception problems ( or how you'd like to call it) would have for sure had a greater impact on customer satisfaction.
But so it ist just ONE app that doesn't perform under certain circumstances.

for me - personally - it was kind of revolutionary that all the features that I had on my winmo but never used, because they where too hard to reach ( or not at all using just one hand ) I now enjoyed using on the iPhone.
Dont look at the specs if you are looking for the revolution - but look at the user experience. The revolutionary feature for me was, that the whole os was build around the idea of the touch device. Not like they ported a desktop metapher on a smaler screen.
Sounds little ? But nobody did it before with such success - one could argue that is a revolutionary feature.

And on the Flash thing:
even it he said "iPad has not enough horsepower to run flash" you cant take it from the purely technical point of view:
What he ment - i guess - is "iPad has not enough horsepower to run flash without risking the overall performance and user experience. But again : just my interpretation :-)

again: can a clever guy not get a doubt if they REALLY build MAGIC into a tablet ? :-) come on :-)

and about this revolution thing: I am sure one could argue that.

I mean it has had really heavy impact in the market.
And a revolution is an event that changes a given system dramatically. it is a point in time that you look back at as the point in time from that on certain things got different.
Some people in the industry say this about the iPhone, isn't that right ?

And about the lies in ads: everytime anyone says "our product is the best" he basically lies - because a product is very very rarely the best in an absolute way ( for all customers, all needs, in any condition, under any circumstances )

I think it all depends how striktly you define the word "lie" -

And again:
It is not just words that can be used to lie, but also the images in ads. Look at what certain ads suggest visually:
You would not expect your car do things like in the ads, would you? ( would be a mgical car then ;-)
And thats why - i believe - one should not be disappointed, if the iPad has no truely magical powers.

But as I said: people define Lies differently...
So as everything: at the end of it all it comes down to the question of taste :-)

hmmm. hate to destroy illusions here...
But you should be aware of the fact, that marketing ist mostly... well lying.

You might notice the fact that despite the electric irons in commercials are doing so - they not exactly do the ironing by them selves in real life.

And if you buy a cleanser you should not expect a bold guy to summon and do all the cleaning for you - like the commercials show.

And just one more question: did you really - I mean really, really - believe that the apple engineers build real - harry potter like - magic into the tablet ? Then of course I understand your frustration. And actually... this sounds a bit cute to me *g*

isnt it true that only the "book" section is affected ? I read somewhere, that the sell numbers of the apps in that section are so low, that you could easily manipulate them with a few hundrets buys