Your analogy makes no sense. It's ok for Wal-Mart not to sell porn because there are alternate sources out there, but it's not ok for Apple... why exactly? It's the exact same situation. To use your own analogy, if the iPhone was legislated to be the absolute only smart phone, then people would have a much more valid concern if they refused to sell porn. That's not true though; you're free to use a different phone if you don't like it. Steve Jobs is even suggesting an alternative for you!

No any key either...

Couldn't you just cut it into 10 and make each piece a little bigger?

Ever hear of jailbreaking? These things are not limitations of the phone at all, only of its default configuration. Anyone who cares enough about those functions and is technically savvy enough to be trusted to use them responsibly, is quite capable of getting them.

For the record, I can't stand Apple and I'm certainly no fanboy, but my jailbroken iPhone simply offers more functionality than any of its competitors.

I don't know. Usually doesn't take that long...

Sorry, just because you've written some random piece of software doesn't mean it's entitled to its own Wikipedia article. I write lots of little insignificant bits of code too, but I'm not so full of myself as to think it's worthy of mention in any encyclopedia. If you can't find one independent source referencing your software somewhere on the web without paying a journalist to review it, then I hate to break it to you, but it's just not that noteworthy. It's not the job of Wikipedia editors to do their own independent research to confirm or deny the accuracy of anything, no matter how trivial it may seem to you.

I don't know. Seems more like rampant fanboyism to me. Tell me why the Pre is better than the iPhone and I'll listen. A lot of hand-waving and vague references to being more free and creative doesn't really mean anything unless you can point to something more tangible. What has been produced on the Pre, which could not have been done on the iPhone? Keep in mind to all those who would rail against Apple's restrictive App Store, there is (and has been for years) a vibrant jailbreak community which I'd say shares a lot of these nebulous traits that are supposedly so unique to the Pre.

What does this even mean? Are we measuring mobile phones against each based on "vibes" now? And how is doing the same thing on a different device somehow more creative?

Woah, I think I'm going to need a car analogy...

Huh? What does moving to another cellular carrier have to do with jailbreaking? I think you're confusing two separate issues here. Yes, you need to jailbreak before doing a carrier unlock, but that's really irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Making the iPhone available on multiple networks, in and of itself, will have little effect on jailbreaking and no effect whatsoever on the use of the Cydia store.

Wait for what now? Jailbreak and install Backgrounder.

Why does everything have to be a holy war to some people? Okay, Apple, AT&T, & the iPhone are not perfect. But a jailbroken iPhone does everything that I need it to do in a way that no other device can. So I'm supposed to sacrifice that functionality to teach Apple & AT&T a lesson? There's a time for standing up for principle, but this is just silly. If you think the iPhone (including it's jailbreakability) is the best device out there for your money, not buying it because you think Apple is evil is just stupid because you're hurting yourself more than you'll ever hurt Apple. If you'd actually prefer another device in the first place, then your proclamation about being unwilling to give such companies your money is just a meaningless rant.

I'm not sure where you're measuring color saturation from, but it seems irrelevant in any case. Color saturation is not a measure are how light or dark a color is, but rather how saturated with color vs how "gray" it is. For example, a color with a color saturation of 0 could range anywhere from pure white to pure black, including all shades of gray in between, but no one would suggest that every shade of grey is equally intense.

Look at the 1.48 square for John Roberts 3rd from the right. It has an RGB value of (213,149,149). Conversely, the -1.48 square for David Souter on the far right has an RGB value of (228,233,244). Clearly the latter is far, far closer to white than the former, which should come as no surprise considering that it's quite obvious to the naked eye as well. Hell, look at the 2nd square for Earl Warren (top row). It's -0.45, which should place it slightly on the liberal side, yet it's colored a light pink. It almost appears as if the color scale is centered around something like -0.80 rather than 0. Either there are some fancy calculations going on that are not well explained and thus quite deceptive, or the colors are blantantly biased to make the reds darker and the blues lighter.

I don't think anyone's predicting the fall of Apple, but rather just stating the obvious. The competition is catching up. Unless Apple unveils some big surprises next week, there's no denying that the competition is positioned much better than they were a year ago. Apple's in no imminent danger here, but they are losing ground, and rumors about the next-gen iPhone suggest that there won't me any major innovations coming from them any time soon (and no, OS updates to include features the competition already has don't count).

As for the Palm Pre, it hasn't achieved anything yet, much less established itself as an iPhone-killer, but it's a little premature to write it off due to lack of apps or lack of actual customers. It hasn't even been released yet! Most reviews have been very favorable and put it at least in the same class as the iPhone, which is a big step from where we've been for the last couple of years.

It's a shame that 'Watson' works by breaking down questions into their structural components and then searching its database for relevant answers. After all, on Jeopardy all the answers are given freely.