What bothers me is if Apple/Google came out with this first, the fanbois would soil themselves screaming how epically awesome the feature was and how they couldn't imagine surviving without it. In fact, I am certain that once Apple/Google comes out with this, they will proceed to do just that, not forgetting to claim that it was an unheard of innovation that their respective object of worship was first to release. Meanwhile, most reliable communication devices, along with most of the innovation that paved the way for the "cool" devices, are quietly being developed by the "uncool" RIMs and Nokias of the world. *shrug*

Where's Dexter when you need him :)

As blahplusplus pointed out, Amazon.ca has but a fraction of the product selection of Amazon.com and charges more for the same products it does have. Even the review systems are different for identical products. It also doesn't honor Amazon.com gift cards. They may as well be different companies.

It does not. It's more expensive and has about 1% of the products that are available on Amazon.com, the difference is even worse than it is between US and Canadian Netflix-es.

Try finding the same products on Amazon.ca - it's mostly just books and maybe a 1-2% fraction of other products offered on .com site. And it's way more expensive. I've shopped on both and, frankly, Amazon.ca sucks.

That is definitely what I use it for, since they don't ship to Canada so I have to find other places to buy the products that have good reviews/photos/details on Amazon.

They could do even better if 9 out of 10 products they sell didn't spit out "We are unable to ship to your address" for Canadian buyers. I am all but given up shopping on Amazon for that reason... they can't even provide a way to filter out items they can't ship to you!

Notice how you didn't say "I spam my oversized/bliking/popup banner all over other sites to get people to view my webpage"? People find your page because you provide information they need, not because they see your ads. Personally, I can honestly say that not once in my life have I read/viewed/purchased anything from clicking a banner. And yeah, I know the whole subconscious brand recognition shpeel... Still - I never buy anything on the brand name alone. Except for Sony, their products I don't buy specifically because of their brand name. But I digress.

Wait, is this not a conflict of interest? I feel a mistrial coming up.

This would give the government a very scary legal precedence to scare script kiddies with.

AOL tried that.

They don't even make sense if you are a mega-corp. Seriously, who cares if it's "kindle.amazon.com" or just "kindle.amazon"? The latter looks gimped anyways.

I would much rather they worked with Microsoft to bring native Skype applications to their platform.

Why would they pick someone so irrelevant as McAfee then?

Nobody is debating that it's occurring. What is being debated is the egocentric claims that humans are significant enough to upset the CO2 balance of the entire planet... while they're releasing measly 0.04% of all CO2 being released into the atmosphere naturally every year... which is what 29,000,000,000 tons of CO2 into 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons of atmosphere? I included all the zeros so it's easier to comprehend without doing the math, but that about 0.0000006% of the atmosphere. citation.