Oh Shit! Now we have to support H.265 as well. When will it end?

And "pussy' is a slang for cat. So is "gnash" is a slang for cat.

I've never heard anyone call a cat a gnash.

Really? Your "non-geek" mother was encoding videos in a format that is incompatible with the codecs natively supported by iOS. Now be honest. Was it you who showed her how to encode those videos or did your "non-geek" mother figure it out all for herself?

I've taken the extra step of not only forwarding all email received by my Hotmail account to my Gmail account. I also forward all mail received by my Gmail account to my Hotmail account. Although, shortly after implementing this strategy, I've noticed a lot of duplicate emails in each inbox and my mailboxes keep filling up. It's not even SPAM, it's just the same messages being repeated over and over and over again.

The biggest problem with US politics is that it's a two party system. If there was a third option it would do wonders to keep the other two in check.

True but about 75% (26,000,000) would never vote Republican. I would say that's enough to keep the Dems in office for a very long time.

the next anniversary date is...2012.

Actually, Apple does provide a way for companies to build and deploy internal apps that do not need to be distributed through the app store.

http://developer.apple.com/programs/iphone/enterprise/

Well, Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba and the myriad of other PC clone makers have been filling hard drives with "trial-ware" for years yet people continue to buy PCs. Apple, on the other hand, has never resorted to such tactics.

What, in their past history, makes you think that Apple would resort to such tactics. If anything, I can see the low margin PC cloners learning by this example and resorting to this as their margins continue to get squeezed.

Of course the ironic thing is that transparency was one of their election platforms, along with honesty, accountability and a few other things they never lived up to.

Hang on, let me fix that for you.

I sure am glad I have Mac OS X.

This is exactly why Android may fail in the long term. It will fragment into so many different flavours, just like Linux on the desktop, that it will be too hard for developers to know which one to target.

Now you're just making stuff up.

Despite all the people who like to quote Charlie Miller and your own "Let me tell you how...", it is not trivial to crack a Mac...period! Ten plus years of Mac OS X proves it. What's Windows' track record been over the past ten years...yeah, I thought so!

Regarding your opinion of Mac users...give me a break. The average Mac user is no different than the average Windows user and that's because both operating systems are marketed to the same user base. The problem is that the average Windows user has a false sense of security because they think that if they run anti-virus they'll be safe whereas the average Mac user doesn't run anti-virus but they also know better than to click on any link sent to them or download and install any piece of software that comes their way. Regarding Linux users, of course they're aware of security but then again, it's not your average user that runs linux on the desktop.

As for Viruses on the Mac, Apple is correct...there are none. And no, Apple hasn't been pontificating this for 10-20 years. They alluded to the fact that Windows was susceptible to hundreds of thousands of viruses and that they did not affect the Mac and this was in a commercial back in 2006. Go look it up, the commercial is called Viruses. There is nothing in that commercial that wasn't true back then isn't still true today.

The truth of the matter is that there have been a couple of Trojans that barely registered a blip on the Mac and, as you've alluded, required user intervention to get installed but the kind of drive-by infections that have plagued Windows users for years just don't happen on the Mac.