yes. actually it's ludicrous to expect every person on the internet to know any one piece of information. especially something that's intentionally hidden from the user.

... except the 3G model will have a plastic patch for the cell radio.

Apply this same logic to sites that work in IE but not Firefox.

I hope you're shorting Apple stock, because otherwise you look like a total moron for having such a vested interest in a product failing.

Yes. That's why both the subject and the summary mention Massachusetts. It's a state. You may have heard of it. It is part of the United States of America.

So don't pay it. My apartment tried to raise their rent by ~180/mo on me in May '09. I told them to piss up a rope. They instead lowered it by ~260/mo.

Just because they're telling you to pay more doesn't mean they aren't trying to screw you. Or, more likely, trying to screw you in order to make up what they're losing on the smarter tenants who are all paying less.

I run Click2Flash. The *only* useful implementation of Flash I ever see is for videos. So, go to Youtube, click on video, it works.

All the other Flash I run across in my daily browsing is screaming obnoxious ads.

Oh, and maybe a weird flash photo gallery on a newspaper site once a month.

Yes, it is a slight drawback that the iPad does not do Flash. Very slight.

"Fancy graphic designers?" 1995 called, they want their stereotype back.

The first iPods did virtually everything I do with my iPod today: Sync MP3s from iTunes and play them thru my headphones.

Sure, now I use my 3GS at the gym since someone stole my nano. But frankly, the classic iPod interface is better than the touch interface anyway.

My problem is when fools try to convince me I'm foolish! Can't they see what fools they are?

I went back to college in 2002-2006 (incidentally buying my first Mac in 2002 after 7 years of exclusive desktop Linux use, and I hate that I have to even throw in this disclaimer) and over that period for the first time noticed Macs being considered 'cool.'

Yet you give your trendy straw men (and women) too little credit. Just because they're not geeks and don't know much about computers, even if they bought a Mac because all of their friends said it was the cool thing to do, they can damn well tell you a lot of things they don't like about Windows. Ask them. I've heard it. These are the very technophobes who let their systems get overrun with spyware and adware, who got viruses while everyone on Slashdot bragged about the number of years they spent in their mom's basement *not* getting viruses (*cough*) while using XP sans AV software.

So if they're using a Mac, and it works for them, doesn't it mean their choice was justified?

I hate to think of what you think of all of the engineers using Macs.

For all of the politics around it, I love my iPhone. I have jailbroken previous iPhones and enjoyed the benefits, but my current one is operating as Apple designed it because I didn't gain enough from jailbreaking to make it worth the effort.

I'm happy with the apps I have, I'm happy with the 3G and regular phone service, I'm happy with the UI, Google Maps integration, iPod, call history and phonebook, don't need multitasking.. I just use it, and it just works, better than any phone I've had before-- including an unholy Motorola/Microsoft abomination. Out of so many millions sold, funny to think that I'm the only one.

Sure, I guess I wish it could multitask or do those other things I don't really need. I wish it was more open. But I'm happy with it. Maybe my next phone will be something else.. or maybe the competition will make Apple improve too.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

Why say in 4 words what can be said, while nounning a verb, in 6?

I think we're only hearing this from people who weren't alive during the 90s.

From a UI perspective, the guy is dead on. Windows has no mode where a userland app runs sans window. The system tray/quicklaunch/task bar/start menu/desktop setup is a clusterfuck of a nightmare in Windows, from a usability perspective.