Why do you say that a jailbroken phone is illegal? The device is yours you bought it. As far as I know Apple only says that it voids the warranty not that their users are criminals...

Jailbreaking is not breaking copy restriction, at least not directly. Some people may use it for that purpose but most of them don't. In my experience iPhones are jailbroken to be unlocked. All of the jailbroken iPhone that I know of only run UltraSn0w and are not vulnerable. All of those people buy software at teh App store because it is more convenient and their iPhone is as stable as any other iPhone. After all what do you do with a second hand iPhone?

And why is the sacrifice good? Except for some extreme religious folks, most people would rather enjoy life. Presenting environment consciousness as a sacrifice may be a good way to start the environment religion but I would be surprised if this message ever gain mainstream acceptance. Finding sustainable solution that enables us to maintain our way of life is probably a better message.From everything I have read there maintaining a good and easy life while keeping the planet cool are not incompatible goals. I don't see what the "sacrifice" has to do with good engineering.

Actually we should even encourage this by giving a tax discount on the first 15 liters of fuel you pump. If you are driving a Hummer this would make very little difference you will not go anywhere with 15 liters but if you are running a Smart that is 1 week worth of travel...

This would really encourage light weight fuel efficient vehicle.

What is your point there? That Apple does a few things very well and Microsoft a lot poorly? Since when has bloat been a valid excuse for poor design?

I find that discussion very entertaining but very unscientific. What is the margin of error of the various measurements? How are the categories defined and what are the margin of error in that definition and the classification of the individuals? With the number presented there is nothing to disprove the statement that "All people informed about nuclear technologies are in favor of its use". You just have to measure the error and find that it is 10% which would not be uncommon in that type of general measurement.

I have 4 sim cards in my wallet (ATT, Fido, Vodafone(AU) and SFR) and I change them whenever I need to. No reboot, No iTunes. Just switch wait a few seconds for the network discovery and off you go. It even reconfigures the phone features on the fly, letting you send MMS in Canada but not in the US.

Except at the border.US custom officer have the right to search you, your luggage and your hard drive without cause. They also have the right to demand that you decrypt your information.

Actually XP and IE6 run very well on my virtual partition on MacOSX. With the coherence mode it is really easy to go from one to the other. You should try it.

You are missing the point. Developers wants their cake and eat it. they want both a cheap way of distributing their apps with low level of piracy and complete freedom to publish whatever they want whenever they want. This is just not compatible.

The truth is that the App Store is a success for the developers and the users because of the abundance of relatively inexpensive applications, typically they are less than half their price on PCs. The main reason is that piracy is very low, but that also mean that someone has to administer the system. Yes the approval process can be improved but it will not disappear as Apple has to take responsibility for the distribution and integrity of the platform. That may be a break for rapid turn around but it is the condition for a functioning market. If you like a comparison the stock exchange can only operate successfully because of the SEC. It may be that in the long term there will be a separation of the approval / regulation process and the retail operation but we are not there yet.

Actually you can achieve a similar result form the consumer angle without the tie in. Why not separate the lease of the equipment from the service. you could have a 2 year lease and a service agreement with no ties. If you take the iphone you pay $200 up front and probably $25 per month for 2 years out of the $70 a month contract. If you are careful about your equipment it will last way more than 2 years but you never get the discount. We should prohibit "natural monopolies" from extending their monopolies by using their market position oh wait this is already prohibited why are we not prosecuting?

Actually this is going to be interesting Virgin-Media is a European company even if the English sometimes conveniently forget it, and the European Parliament is pushing to have Internet access recognized as an essential service like the phone.

I can see a law suit coming.

I thought Microsoft was in Washington state.

You may want to keep up with the stats IE is fast becoming irrelevant for some segment of the Web and is down to 67% globally.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0