One of the current political issues over Mr Junker is that he is one of these federalists.

Why single out apple in the heading?

The European Commission raised pressure on Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg over their corporatetax practices, saying it was investigating deals the countries have cut with Apple, Starbucks and Fiat.

The EU is looking at whether the countries' tax treatment of multinationals, which help to attract investment and jobs that might otherwise go to where the companies' customers are based, represent unfair state aid.

Really, apart from the soundbites given by evangelicals such as Cook, how many actual pieces of malware have slipped through the Play Store?

With also the result that non-Safari browsers cannot run their own JS engine, having to use JavaScriptCore. Whereas Safari runs on Nitro. But hey, alternative browsers, it's great right?

It was actually Apple on the first version of the iPhone with the Cisco systems. However, it was when the device was actually connected to the network, not in broadcast mode to discover networks.

I forget it the root cause was later traced to Cisco or Apple.

Shortly after the release of Apple’s Wi-Fi-powered eye candy, the infamous iPhone, reports surfaced of disruptions on Duke University’s WLAN. After 10 days of industry speculation and furious troubleshooting, the culprit has now been fully identified.

According to Duke, “a Cisco-based network issue” caused “some minor and temporary disruptions in service.” Specifically, the way in which a tiny handful of iPhones interacted with Duke’s WLAN sparked a number of short but intense Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) storms. While each storm lasted just 10-15 minutes, they effectively prevented WLAN service delivery by over two dozen APs during each interval.

No it is not, network administrators can also be fooled in to a false sense of security. You would be surprised how many admins think MAC filtering is secure and consequently don't implement anything else.

Once connected to a network, it will use the real MAC, making it utterly traceable.

Oh it must be true, as a pithy one-liner describes it so. Or not. Yes, Google gets the majority of its money from advertising. You fail to notice that Google users are the ones who buy the advertising, and are the ones who click on adverts. This also ignores the many non-ad-based services Google offers, but I guess that's not as cool as your one-liner, even if it is far more accurate, so you will keep spouting that nonsense.

I would be more optimistic if it weren't for the fact that Apple went and deliberately developed "iBeacon", more or less deliberately designed for every sort of horrid 'location based service' and 'relevant offer' crap in the book.

More specifically this is about 3rd parties tracking you, without paying Apple. All this does is close up the tracking options that compete with Apple's tracking options. As for Google, I suspect we'll see this happening on Android phones soon enough as MAC tracking competes with Google as well.