Everyone can still install the app from the official CM web-site OR start thinking about switching to some competing app market. With Apple, you will come back to use the same app store, whatever outrage impulse you had. I see some difference here...

Will Apple sue it?

The first ddg search "Windows 8 sales" got me here:
PC Sales Plunge Due To Windows 8: Report - The Huffington Post

- Looks like if mass consumer "is given the choice" of having a windows 8 PC only or NOT having a PC overall, he prefers NOT having a PC at all (and goes now for something completely different, ie some tablet /mobile phone /PC-on-a-Stick instead))

How about shark-user-friendliness?

the internet connection is absent from Russia and China. I feel much safer now because of their online frauds, firewalls and persecution.

will it blend?!

To see how MS peacefully tolerates and humbly accepts total fail of the Surface. Peacefully & humbly. Any cash!

"only 75 offices exist, though they are located in each of India's 671 districts..." ?!

That's the reason I do not believe in God (the supreme being?) [thus, no hopes for the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything]: in a perfect world, we STILL DO have spammers.

... MS?

A software company chief research officer reassures the AC, that "if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer [nowadays] and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer.", "Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack".

It's probably not that odd in the internets, you know...

"by consequence of having access to the code any privacy concerns can easily be detected / removed by end users if desired, but I still don't see the connection between free software and assumed privacy."

- Attention, we have an *pple lawyer here!

Let this be replied by another question: In the world of proprietary SF, where software not only doesn't do what a user needs, but even does what user doesn't want, and free software, which does only what it is supposed to to, how can You call a choice to be controlled by a manufacturer of locked up, bulky and noneffective software a FREEDOM?!