Whoa.

No, you moron, it is hardware.

That is one of the few exceptions, along with certain colorful iPhone and iPod models. Everything else is boring metal slabs.

Isn't that the case with pretty much every PC maker out there?

Anyway, Apple these days makes me sad. I like OS X, but I don't really like their hardware anymore. Remember the original iMac, or the sunflower one? The clamshell iBook? The G4 Cube? They had such interesting and unique designs. Their current stuff, though... most of what they have is some slight variation of a featureless slab. So refined, so minimalistic, so elegant, so chic, so skull-numbingly boring.

Hiring a non-computer executive? What's next, will they hire one from a soft drink company?

Whoosh. The target of the joke is Samsung.

Beats would be the wrong company, if all Apple wanted was a headphone maker. But they also intend to build a music streaming service, which Beats had, with all the licensing deals already in place.

How about: use headphones, not earbuds.

Yes, movies are shot at 24FPS. Isn't that horrible? We have sound and color, but we're still using that same piss-poor framerate from the silent movie era!

My entire life, I've been told diversity is a critical component of success -- building a robust and varied environment out of people from a range of different experiences, etc.

Now you're telling me that two of the most successful companies on the entire planet are, in fact, super homogeneous?

Yeah, right. This flies in the face of everything I was indoctrinated to believe.

lllll AJ

Because the H-4 was a cargo plane, I suppose.

"The people"? It must be some communist ploy!

That was not Brazil, I assume. I've only seen a Blackberry here once, in some in-store kiosk, years before smartphones became mainstream. Nowadays, everyone has Androids, iPhones, even WP, while Blackberry has vanished.

Indeed. The piece of shit that came out was almost nothing like the Halo that they had promised.

You mean a handegg.