Certainly not innovative. However ipad is a decent product, as evidenced by the fact that none of the competing tablets seem to give users as good an experience. The iphone is good too; it took over two years before someone had made a decent competing smartphone. Google owns this market now, (completely justified, android is an awesome phone OS). I doubt android would be as good as it is now if it wasn't for the fact that they needed to reach the bar that had been raised by the iphone.

Apple doesn't sue someone because they are scared, they sue them because they are a competitor.

There are plenty of places to use the internet and remain anonymous. Google+ is letting people know that for now, their social network is not one of them. Most people who use social networks use their real name anyway. Google+ might loose out on the interest of the fringe few who insist on being obfuscated in their internet use.

How do you come up with that conclusion? That's like a child saying their parents are evil for making them go to bed at a reasonable hour. If you look at all the other social networks, a lot of griefing and spam comes out of people using fake accounts and psuedonyms. Its not impossible to do either of those on google+, but its certainly going to make people less likely to do it. I think griefing and spam is evil. I think that google is perfectly justified to prohibit the use of pseudonyms. Especially since its still in the beta phase, and they are still trying to work with a limited user base.

Making a presentation on an iphone isn't a good idea at all, but if you end up needing to make some minor adjustments right before a meeting it makes a lot of sense.

by not entering a bunch of information in the first place. People need to read the terms of service, and think about what kind of information they put online.

People can play video games without ruining the rest of their life.

I know someone who is about to buy the lowest rung macbook because they can't afford a better one so they can get the free ipod touch. I offered him my ipod touch in the meantime so he could save up some money and buy a better computer in a year. So yes, people are buying mac's (at least partially) for the ipod.

Only the most zealous apple fanboy seems to try to deny that apple is evil by now.

Well, that was an unnecessary insult. It wasn't just me. Most of the people I know with similar leanings were equally shocked. I wasn't seeing any of the good things that they were doing right; they didn't talk about them, and neither did the opposition. It was kind of a ridiculous election. Very american; people spent most of the time slinging dirt at each other instead of talking about policies. I wasn't blindly accepting anyones propaganda, I looked around, and the internet didn't seem to have much positive to say about the conservative party.

Personally I was shocked to see that the conservatives won a majority in the recent Canadian election, especially since all the information I had been reading on the internet painted them in such a poor light as far as public opinion seemed to be concerned. This actually makes a lot of sense. Perhaps implementing a devils advocate approach to every search; every fifth or tenth item is something that would appeal to someone with polar viewpoints.

But hasn't an open source consumer device already been released? http://meeblip.noisepages.com/

And yet that is just as ridiculous as apple suing people for the term app store. Why are people using Microsoft's actions to justify Apple now?

Its not the same as calling it theft or stealing. Both those imply that there is a loss of original item. This does not; it implies that the person in question is trying to get something that has value without paying for it. You go out to dinner with friends, one of those friends seems to forget their wallet constantly, they are a freeloader, not a thief or pirate.

Actually, apple did sue a local grocer in Australia because their logo had an apple in it. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Apple-Woolworths-logo-lawsuit,8784.html