I have used an iPhone 3gs and an iPhone 5 (currently). I tried an SII and hated it. I have not seen an SIII so I have no basis for comparison.

I COMPLETELY agree that Apple's iPhone/iOS development has stagnated. It's a very nice phone, but the interface is virtually unchanged in almost 5 years now (copy/paste, multitasking, notification center, siri, are the big changes). There are some nice features that I use daily--Siri and Find my Friends most notably--but not a huge different appearance-wise.

But, my question is: how is Samsung innovating? I ask this question out of ignorance. What are the killer features of the SIII that mark it as a more innovative phone than, e.g., the iPhone5.

Well, lucky for you, Apple has always published the iPad screen's specifications. http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

It's not like Apple doesn't also list the tech specs. They list both inch measurements, resolution, and PPI. See, e.g., http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

I would put it differently. People are panicky sheep. Traders are gamblers. Nothing more. Traders are gambling on how other people are going to respond.

In the absence of dividends, what's a stock?

Of course this is somewhat less than true now with all of the algorithmic trading and high-frequency trading that goes on. Nonetheless, at its core, the market is about emotion. Traders make--and lose--money based on emotions, not facts and fundamentals.

If the articles are to be trusted (which I have no idea of), the claim was that Google would not allow Apple access to turn-by-turn voice nav without also both enabling Google Latitude (i.e., Google tracking) and increasing branding. Don't pretend it was JUST a branding issue.

Look, I get it, you're complaining about getting modded down (those stupid mean Apple people!!). Like I said, it's slashdot, get used to it, move along, next play. The moderation system being (ab)used to suppress or promote content based on your opinions is an integral part of the history and being of slashdot.

There's really no reason to get worked into a lather about it! Make your posts more interesting and somebody might mark them as such next time.

You got an over-rated moderation and your feelings are hurt? You must be new here :-p

Wait, what? I did not have a 3g (I got a 3gs in 2009 that I still have is still getting iOS updates including iOS 6), but as far as I know the 3g--released in 2008--could run iOS 2 (stock), iOS 3 (2009), and iOS 4 (2010-11). Even if you bought an iPhone 3G the DAY before the 3gs was released, Apple still issued over a year and some change of software updates.

Do Android phones released in 2008 really do better in terms of running newer Android releases or getting updates? IMHO there are plenty of reasons to go with Android, but I don't think vendor operating system support is one of them!

This is the reason I still read slashdot. Awesome link, thanks for posting.

Do you really live in fear of NRA members and (or) people who disagree with you politically?

Only diversity of skin color and sexuality, not diversity of beliefs!

Am I the only one who thinks that Android is going to basically overtake the traditional Linux distros as the most popular face of Linux not only on the Phone and Tablets but eventually on laptops and desktops?

There are a lot of advantages to Android over basic Linux. Easy to install apps. Commercially supported apps -- like Netflix. Easy market for businesses to monetize with software sales, etc. Games. Commercial backing by one entity.

Seems to me Mozilla is rather missing the point, or perhaps, is struggling against a perceived future of irrelevance.

This sounds like a loose paraphrase of a passage from Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. I can't remember the exact passage but it was about some early hackers who got so into "computer mode" that they interpreted English literally. IIRC the example give was (roughly):

Wife: "Would you like to help me unload the groceries?"
Man: "No"
Wife: "JERK!"
Man: "What? You asked if I wanted to, and I don't. I will help unload the groceries."

Nice, thanks for the link. Bit of a PITA to fix a lion deficiency, though. My experience with OSX upgrades is that every point release generally reverts these type of changes. Still might be worthwhile...

It's frustrating. I will do the Chameleon thing and hope for the best. With years without updates, deprecated models, no more server OS (almost understandable) and no more Xserve--not to mention the debacle with the video tools--it's just really apparent that Apple is one of first old school computer companies to jump headfirst into the post-PC, post-Power User world. As a user who always liked that OSX was UNIX--and a really slick system--etc, it just seems a sad thing to me.

More cynical slashdotters would say I was fool for ever thinking Apple cared one cent about my ilk!

No, I don't think you're right about this. As you say, the ATI x1900xt (the card in my Mac Pro) has windows 64-bit drivers. I've run one under Vista 64! Secondly, if what you are claiming as a major graphics change would be true, I could swap in a $50 graphic card into my Mac Pro and be fine to install ML. But I can't...It's more arbitrary than that.

You're claiming installing the Mac Port replaces the builtin smb functionality?

EXACTLY. The keyword from your reply is: "support." This is where Apple is not willing to put in the effort. The hardware itself is fine. Apple is just not willing to do the support. Again, this situation is very different from 68k to PPC, or PPC to Intel. Deprecating old architectures makes sense. Deprecating powerful workstations -- while supporting inferior laptops -- just because you don't want to port a 64-bit driver that already exists for every other OS does not make sense. Blocking ML on a computer even if it has a fully upgraded, brand spanking new 2012 graphics card does not make sense.