The economy wins!!
So many possibilities when everyone has access, access that makes you feel like you're on a LAN.

Maybe we should spend enough to connect everyone in the US with 1 Gb connections...

Yes we should do this and then watch all the companies stop doing all R&D, because why would a company spend money on R&D when they can just reverse engineer who ever does it first and get it almost free.

Patents are good for 20 years (assuming proper upkeep)

Right now they (Google, etc) are using computers to optimize algorithms, in 10-20 yrs AI will being writing all the code. The rule in capitalism is everyone is replaceable....

Hi Karl Rove, when did you start reading /. ?

New version of malware is blocked already

Most people probably think of this as using the heat of the Earth to produce power. The most effective use that I see right now, that works everywhere, is geothermal heating/cooling. If countries moved all buildings and houses to this model you'd reduce the use of natural gas and heating oil so dramatically .... quick ref http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10131539-54.html

You make it sound like trying and failing is a bad thing! Trying and failing is great, as long as your successes outweigh your failures!!! Well also the failures give you clarity about how to do it better :-)

1. The Newton. 1993 16-17 years ago - iPhone and iPod Touch got this right

2. Apple Pippin. 1995 14-15 years ago - Never sold by Apple, but some would say iPhone and iPods are taking bite of this market

3. Power Mac G4 Cube. 1999 10-11 years ago - Mac mini got this right

4. Apple QuickTake. 1992 17-18 years ago - iPhone and iPods will continue to bite into this market

5. Macintosh TV. 1993 16-17 years ago - Apple continues to experiment

6. Apple's "Hockey Puck" USB Mouse. 1998 11-12 years ago - Apple continues to experiment

7. eMate. 1997 12-13 years ago - iPhone and iPod Touch got this right

I remember the 90s they were a fun decade, along time ago.

Having said that, I have serious doubts about the iSlate/iBook or whatever they want to call it, expectations are way, way, way to high and although I think this market is the future of laptops I'm just not sure Apple will get it right enough :-)

Hundreds if not thousands of people streaming video of events from their phones over the AT&T 3G network, oooops, never mind :-)

That will teach them for advertising that they help everyone find a job :-)

Damn that ./ community, censoring another web site by sending too many reader to it :-)

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Jonathan Ive's is important to the company also, so with that logic, they need to disclose his medical issues. So where does it stop.