Interestingly enough the newspaper that "blew the whistle" has the same parent company as MySpace, NewsCorp.

I believe that the reason they have not been enterprise-ready previously the enterprise has little to no interest in macs before now. It's a circle that's time has come to be broken. Just a couple adjustments to this system and they could create an in-house application management system for the enterprise. Version and license control are there as well as distribution. Apple already includes software update server on their server OS. Minor tweaking could bring it all together.

If these documents are available to Wikileaks, they have probably been available to the people we really don't want to have them for a while. Just because Wikileaks makes them public, doesn't mean they're in any way actually responsible for the failed security.
The US is scared though. What happens when Wikileaks gets their hands on information that will really be damaging to the government as a whole. Classified documents of pertaining to the great conspiracy theories of the 20th century, anyone?

What's the point if the device you're needing to charge isn't sound or light free? Just curious.

It isn't JUST the mag-safe adapter though. It's the thought that Apple actually puts into their laptops that spawn such features.

I used to work in the PC and Mac repair business. A significant percentage of repairs are DC-in boards, both old Macs and PCs. These repairs generally cost $200 or so to the customer. Sure, you could repair it yourself for almost nothing but the non-technical majority are intimidated by simple RAM installs.

Even if you're making sure the cable is tucked away and secured perfectly, Murphy will come around and make sure it happens to you in the worst way possible. It's best to just not worry about it.

Sure, mag-safe itself isn't worth the price difference between a macbook and similar PC. But it's another $20 or so value IMO. There are many of these little things that eventually add up to justify the difference. Some actually good included software, a strong OS, the Mac shareware community (amazing). 5 years of commercial AV software is a nice hidden cost of a PC that contributes to leveling the playing field. All the little details added up, I usually consider the Mac actually cheaper. Go find me a PC laptop that rivals a MacBook in construction quality. Go REALLY inspect the MacBook and MacBook pro before you just find something that looks fancy and claim it's just as good.

Those were great keyboards. I probably have a few in storage somewhere around here. Are you using an ADB-USB adapter? Do you have any funky functionality issues?

The signal issue varies greatly based on your "base" signal at the location. Not being exact, but for explanation only let's just say you drop a flat 40% signal strength. Also know that apples signal meter is way off ~60% of the signal range is contained in the first, largest, bar. Somebody at 90% signal won't even see the first bar drop. But somebody at 40% (still great signal on this phone) will drop their call. Some people don't see the issue but everyone has it. It's all relative to your signal strength to start.

"most people" should probably be replaced with "people in high signal strength areas where a defect in antenna design that causes a 50% loss in signal strength won't boot them off the network" All iPhones are affected by this issue. Some people just don't have it affecting their daily usage. Both phones my fiance and I have are affected by this, different models, different batches. Oh and we also have the proximity issue. QA at Apple needs to be replaced.

You're more than welcome to make up with a reason yourself, if you'd like. Though this seems the most likely to me.

Apple's no magically perfect company, some inconsistencies are inherent to humans as programmers. Stupid humans. But exactly why would you say that it's just lip service? I'm very curious there.

So you're wanting "cloud" syncing of all your music, apps, movies, photos, and settings? Or just wifi syncing, which is all that other app did that's now on Cydia. If you have MobileMe, you're already getting your calendar, bookmarks, address book, and such synced over 3g, pushed, even. Now for saved app data, I would have you listen for some changes that might be coming to MobileMe late summer. But in terms of others having it, Android just got it in froyo, along with the ability to backup program data at all.

If you're out there comparing this to other platforms, the barrier to entry is extreme low. $99 assuming you already have a Mac somewhere in the office. $1098+tax if you don't. Even if that looks like a big number with the Mac, it's really not. If you see how much your company is paying for the software on your machine and your user licenses for things you access on their servers, you might be a little shocked.

Ahh, I misunderstood. I agree that at least on the iPad it's horrible. There's no ' without hitting a modifier key. I don't have a lot of complaints with the iPhone one, because I compare it to what I've used before. Mainly an old blackberry or a T9-type auto-detection monstrosity. The best bet for fixing that thing is http://www.apple.com/feedback It's the best way to attack the problem right now.

I really need some of whatever that is you're smoking.

Business = risk. Every business venture has a chance to fail horribly. The people who go out and say "there's a chance it might not get approved, so why try" are going to be kicking themselves when somebody else does it and succeeds.

Follow the rules and test the app well before submission. But, if your groundbreaking app needs to bend/break the rules, sure, avoid the iPhone.

Maybe his company plans on making an app that crashes while using private APIs to do things other than what the description says it should do.

I think it's a pretty safe bet that he needs to avoid all that hard work and development time he would put into that. Android offers you much more flexibility for these apps.

The only conclusion that I can come up with for this is that there may be some agreement or licensing issue with syncing over WiFi that is holding it up. For a company like Apple, implementing that in software would be trivial.

Apple is very big on consistency, for good reasons. If there was a patent, license, or agreement holding it back for something like, music or rented movie transfers, Apple probably wouldn't want to split syncing up and say "you can transfer A and B over wifi, but you have to plugin over USB for X and Y".

All convenience aside, I am very glad that they automatically back your device up each time you plug in. It's saved my butt a couple times. I never planned on leaving my phone outside during a hailstorm, but I plugged in my replacement and it restored to my backup from earlier that day. Short of missing a few texts in between, you'd never have known it was a new one.