Despite what you want to argue with that comment - yes, yes it would. Carmakers WOULD give out cars for free if: a) it was the carmaker that got the money from the services, not the service facility itself. b) it was mandatory for the car to function to service it once per month. Really mandatory, like it wouldn't run AT ALL without it. c) the service would cost upwards from 50% of the original car price PER MONTH. yes, yes they would give out cars for free. They would give them out by pairs if they could.

Cover: For example, enter "cover " in dealextreme's seach field and you'll see a few. Most of them are just for show. Ringtones.. err... what? Are you using a stock ringtone in your phone? ...seriously? NO-ONE I know, including my mother, uses a stock ringtone on their phones. Logos, well yeah, but replace with wallpaper and you're all set.

Seriously, mod parent up. Although voice-activated things have been possible for the longest time (voice dialling, google voice search, etc), I have NEVER heard ANYONE use those. Ever. At least here in Finland, people DO NOT speak to the PHONES, they speak, THROUGH the phone to someone else. Jeez, we don't even speak to answering machines, we hang up :D Much, much, MUCH than more important than Siri to people I know, is the ability to personalize, everything. Covers, ringtones, logos, you name it. I have witnessed about 5 or 6 circumstances where people have bought and Android phone over iPhone SOLELY for the fact that you can't "mod" iPhone in any way that would have a real impact. Every iPhone in this whole world looks (almost) EXACTLY like the other. You cannot make an iPhone "your" phone, it is "just an iPhone", where as with Android, you can. From where I stand, THIS is the killer feature, rather than voice commands. People customize pretty much everything they own, so phones are just a natural extension of that habit.

I suggest you might want to consider reading it again... "Current jacks will fit the new port design, but since the port is cut in half and exposed to one side of the device shell, a traditional connector would simply drop out: Apple proposes a magnetic interface that would keep a thin audio connector in place. "

This. A hundred times this. Mod parent up +9000 insightful. Of things I lookup in google, only about one in five require me to actually click the link, rather than letting me see the answer from the displayed text under the link. For most simple things like "how to spell google ceo" or "150 usd in eur" the answer is displayed on the results page and you have no need to click any links. If you can paraphrase your question/query right, most of the time you don't need to click anything. Only if you're looking for more info, or something that doesn't fit the short clip do you need to click a link.

LAN?

"no always ONLINE requirement".. of course. Apparently I can't spell.

What I don't understand is, how exactly does "no always offline requirement" translate to "huge problems with cheaters". If you allow offline, LAN games, I don't have problems with cheaters. For one, it's offline, people can't just connect to it. Ergo, if someone on the game cheats, I KNOW them, they are actually in MY HOUSE. So I can just get off my chair and go punch the f*cker in the face. And drink his soda, most probably. For online servers, sure, require always-online connectivity. They really ARE always online so it doesn't matter. But for Single Player and LAN games? Always Online requirement does not make sense in any reasonable way. The least being cheater protection. A heavy baseball bat works a heck of a lot better than any DRM when it comes to offline gaming.

If that will become the reality, I will greatly regret the day I was born to this world... By your logic, no-one, ever, would be able to market any software that has the name "Windows" on it... Search any freeware/shareware website and you'll find hundreds, if not thousands, of titles that have "Windows" as part of their name (not counting the "for Windows" titles even). I HIGHLY doubt Bethesda has a case, I very much doubt they have trademarked "Scrolls", which would logically be required to even think of a case here. Logic has a infamous capability to be absent in legal battles, however. Think about game titles, if by trademarking the Title you automatically are granted a trademark on any individual words in the title, this world will collapse overnight. "Dragon Age" "Age of Conan" "Age of Mythology"; "Might & Magic Heroes" "Company of Heroes" "Heroes over Europe".. etc, etc. There's a point there, by the way. HOMM's real legal name is infact "Might & Magic® Heroes®", which means both parts of the title have been registered and STILL they don't have a case with any other game with "Heroes" on the title.

Wait.. why? If people (me included) can do this *at home* (via various techniques), I'm fairly certain Google can do so with a more-or-less mission-critical server...

Erm.. sorry Apple, I love (some of) your products to death, but as a company you sure try as you might to get on my bad side. My Palm Tungsten from the year Sword and Shield looks a lot like an iPhone too, with the grid of icons on the homescreen and all (also, Galaxy S' homescreen incidentally DOESN'T have the icons, you have to hit the app drawer icon first, the homescreen itself is completely customizable...).

Exactly. TFA seems to be effective IF the "troll" in question is really just a "normal" rational person that just happens to be pissed off/angry/disagreeing with the other person. For a "genuine" troll - not so much. Ignore/ban seems to work much, much better. Or, as I said, there's a possibility that the author of TFA is just trolling, in which case he's good, really good. ;)

Exactly. Like the saying goes: "If you don't want the public to know something - don't do it."

Maybe not magically, but legally / etc. At least here in Finland we used to get offers (usually via phone) to get our mobile numbers listed in the phonebook for Just This Nice Price(tm). Even now, you DON'T get listed if you don't opt-in (and I'm not sure if that's even free).

Yes it does. But which one takes more resources to install/maintain? Which one is easier and faster to set up for "moms and pops"? And the latest trend.. which one runs/can be used straight from Android/iOS without the need of a computer of any kind...