I've never had any problems with my three succeeding Nokia phones used as alarm clock myself. In 9 years And I relied exclusively on that. Android does the trick now, with virtually no problems in sight, except when I erroneously set the volume of the alarm to 0 (that was my bad actually). It has not been long enough for me to "rely" on it, so my Nokia phone without a sim sits near my bed "just in case", I would be doing that too if I had an iPhone for just a few months.

I second that. This looks like the company is going too far here. It is still legal to smoke (in France it is, and I'm fairly certain there are extremely few countries where it isn't)

Well... He is a physicist.

I was tricked by this once however :(

You apparently have no sense of scale.

From the article:

The altitude in question is not given, unfortunately. But altitudes given as examples are 300 miles at their maximum, geosynchronous satellites are 20,000 miles high. That's more than 60 times the height.

Power varies with 1/(x^2) where x is the distance of the blast. 60 times the distance means 60^2 times less power to reach upper atmosphere where the EMP is emitted. That's 3,600. I'm pretty sure it won't do anything.

How could it be solved then? You'd have to "cheat"?

No it won't, nearest satellite is almost a thousand miles away!

Geostationary satellite is 22,000 miles high. A nuclear explosion the magnitude of human-built devices will do a lot less harm to the upper atmosphere than the sun does continuously. Geostationary orbit is 165,000 miles in circumference. The closest satellites from Galaxy-15 are Americom-10 and Americom-11 and are both two degrees of longitude away from Galaxy-15 (that would be approximately between 900 and 1000 miles away!

So, the radiation field will cause no damage to other satellites and the upper atmosphere.

I am not aware of any treaties stopping the USA from nuking its own satellites.

It would still be completely impractical to use nuclear weapons in this case, just sending a rocket would be enough. Very expensive though.

So, others are even worse, it make Apple great?

When was it a comparison with other devices? I honestly don't know if it's good or not to have full details on every single piece of hardware in a smartphone. I would certainly like to have those details, personally, because I like knowing what I buy. I understand that the basic consumer doesn't want to know anything technical, and that he only wants the device to work. I understand that there is a middle ground to be found, and I don't really care, as long as I can read technical developer's documentation.

"Look at the others, they're doing it even worse", isn't, and never will be a valid argument, This is not a comparison to other devices. It's a statement about Apple. You did not refute this statement.

Isn't this an option that can be deactivated ?

Demonstration on a laptop says: "Look, it doesn't use much power", regardless of what it really uses.

6+ ? Last motherboard I bought had fourteen.

My physics lessons a few years back scream at me that the XXXXXXX "2channels" is not possible. Light does not reflect that precisely through the fiber.

Multiple wavelength works great though.

I've heard people say it exactly like that, I don't care if it's true or false, but some fanboys are quick to draw the "iPhone outsells every other phone", hopefully, not every single one of you does that.

Steve Jobs himself, in the iPad keynote said something of the like "Apple is the first seller of mobile platforms in the world", of course, he was talking about revenue in both phones and laptops, so that actually might be true, given the high price of the Apple hardware, but the point is, this topic exists out there. Some say that without doubt, iPhone is powerful in the market, the GGP is however very reserved on that issue.

If it were a story where the iPhone market share was a positive argument, GGP would have said "Of course, the iPhone has the market power, it is the first phone ever in sales volumes in the world, therefore [insert conclusion here]