Aren't there lawsuits against iOS too? Patent lawsuits are just a cost of doing business these days.

Are you willing to stop increasing your consumption of energy? As consumption continues to rise what alternatives do we have? Nuclear energy is a necessary evil. Other alternative energy sources such as solar and wind just don't have the output and reliability that nuclear has.

The Unreal Engine has no problem scaling to whatever hardware you give it. Compared to various PC configurations this should be much simpler. I foresee in the future there may be apps marked iPad2+ required when the hardware performance gets too disparate, but probably not between iPad and iPad2.

Opera ignores the parental controls in OS X. I would say that warrants some type of warning. I arrived at this conclusion immediately after seeing the 17+ label.

Sure, Google is still king of search, but it hasn't been able to get much traction in other areas (e.g. social networking). The article was written from an investment point of view not technological. As an investment GOOG has been disappointing for the past few years compared to other tech leaders. So this begs the question whether or not its "best days", as an investment, are past. It still remains to be seen whether Android will be able to contribute significantly to the company's revenue growth. The key word is growth, MS still continues to make tons of money, but their future growth prospects remain dubious which is reflected in their stock price.

Wouldn't that mean that RIM would have to open source their changes if they decided to use Android because of GPL? I don't think they want to divulge their secrets.

No one knows exactly how Apple will name the product until it's released, so calling it iPad 2 is a convenient way to refer to the next revision.

Google going extremely strong? Looking at the stock price, its performance is only on par with HP in the last 5 years; yet you call HP a "degraded" company. Look at Amazon, Oracle, Apple, all of these companies have done much better in the same time period. It takes a visionary leader for a company to be great, engineer-driven is not the key ingredient.

Funny, and you think the Chinese government will let you use any encryption you like. Sorry, but only dissidents use strong encryption...

I come to Slashdot to debunk sensational headlines. I value any comments that bring clarity to the issue, not those that just parrot the sensationalism.

But it implies that all apps can be hacked, which is clearly misleading. Saying "Some Mac App Store Apps Already Hacked" would be more accurate, but much less sensational.

Dividends are usually not guaranteed either (unless we're talking about preferreds), so I don't see why anyone who thinks the stock market is a "house of cards" would feel safer holding dividend paying stocks. By your logic aren't you still a chump for giving a lump sum of money away so that it can be slowly given back to you in small uncertain increments?

Sorry, but I don't trust having all my apps run from the web. Just the other day I was on a tight deadline trying to print a document from Docs when it crapped out on me refusing to print. It was late at night, so it's understandable if they needed to do some server maintenance. Or possibly it wasn't even Google's fault because there may have been issues with my ISP, but either way I was helpless to do anything. I would prefer to having things run locally and automatically sync to the cloud when possible.

How is the lag on the bluetooth Senns? I've read that there are audio lags when watching video with bluetooth headphones.

Apple trades at around 20 times its earnings, similar to Google and Oracle which are both market leaders as well. Nothing out of the ordinary here. What doesn't seem to make sense is why a company like Amazon trades at 60 times its earnings. Is its growth potential 3 times greater than Apple?