I never said that they didn't. I was simply stating that good money doesn't always signify good peripherals.

For the cheap cube-shaped, white plastic AC->USB converter, they wanted $30. Nothing about it was quality. The Apple store "genius" even stated that it was only rated to work with 100-120 volts and wouldn't work in countries that used a 220 volt standard. I later learned that "genius" was wrong, but have run into people whose adapter stopped working completely under both 110v and 220v.

I'm sorry, I must have crossed an Apple fanboi. But okay, I'll bite. Obviously, *Samsung* doesn't have any "premium devices", and only "MS users" ever leave their wireless router unprotected.

As far as spewing personal data all over, Facebook should be a good enough example that people don't care about their personal data... They walk around posting location updates now too.

Funny thing is that I actually think it's good for Apple to support this standard that forces the standard user to think about security.

Um. There is plenty that relates a very real perception of Apple products to a news article about Apple products. It has very much to do with the topic at hand, and is not a douchey lie.

Any positive for resale value is completely nullified by the fact that standard accessories are outrageously priced... Want a wall-charger? $30. Charge/sync cord wear out? $30. Earphones fell apart? $30. Hell, let's assume you get an iPad and want a keyboard: $70. Bluetooth keyboards for a real computer don't even cost that much.

I had an iPod Touch once, and I treated it well. I never yanked it off the charging cord and always kept my earphones well. It wasn't even like I was always using the thing very often. They both started coming apart about 6 months in. When I wanted to get an AC->USB adapter, I looked to see if Apple had an official one: $30... Needless to say, I didn't buy it. Instead, I bought a universal electrical outlet adapter (not transformer) that included USB ports for $15. That's served me a lot better and--unlike the Apple accessories that came with the iPod Touch--has not had any quality issues for years.

The problem isn't that bluetooth has security capability. It's that it forces security.

With bluetooth, there is no way to just connect without figuring out the target device's preprogrammed pairing code (usually 0000 or 1111), or typing the same code into both devices. This acts as another step that gets in the way of Joe Schmoe doing what he wants. In the case of some phones, they ask for confirmation every time for every file/contact that's going to be transferred -- with no way to permanently authorize a paired device. (This happened on an old Samsung phone that I bought while abroad, I forget which model.)

I see it similar to WiFi security. People who are aware of the risks of wireless communication between devices will want security. The standard user just wants the software/protocol/whatever to get out of her way.

I wonder if that guy is still the community coordinator for marketing...

Right. So the government will share internal documents on internal servers. Aside from the buzz and the fud associated with the word "cloud", what is the news in this story?

Huddle got a gov't contract? Good for them.

Thank you. If I saw your post before I dropped a comment on a previous thread, I would've mod'ed up.

The next post came 4 minutes later. Even if we assume that you posted at xx:26:59, and they posted at xx:30:00, that still gave you 3 full minutes to be the first poster.

Would it really take you longer than 3 minutes to post something that displayed a little more intelligence than that of a potted plant?

Did you really have nothing to say about this story? Nothing at all?

Come on, at least make a joke about the similarity of name "Vesta" to "Vista", and then continue about how the hardware requirements of it can only be described as "proto-planetary". If you're going to waste everyone's time, make it worthwhile.

No, no. You've got it wrong. This will contain things that Apple-users delete.

Napkins were probably also the inspiration for agile programming's "user-stories on index cards"...

And he would've come out with this when he was still in charge. It's funny how he only has the balls to make this statement when he's on his way out already.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm...

I've only seen Apple users stereotyped as preppy, eccentric artist types whose best hope is to get a job in graphic design. The only Apple user I know that regularly has girls approach him isn't even an Apple-user anymore. He previously used an old beige-box, pre-OSX Macintosh. That machine died so he built a PC.

And no, he isn't the only Apple user I know. The others haven't had girlfriends in quite a while...

That's just like saying:

Politicians aren't lying; they're legislating. There's a difference. /sarcasm