What are you syncing the contacts to? All of the things you named are for syncing your data between a mac or pc and an ios device.

There is zero reason for wanting to use icloud if you don't own an iOS device or a mac. There are so many other services for windows that do a much better job at a cheaper price. If someone likes apples ecosystem enough to stomach itunes or safari on windows then they already own an iOS device or a mac.

Well your question was, can you access icloud, not setup an account. There's no reason to want an icloud account if you don't have an iOS device or a Mac, which is probably why you can't setup an account online.

Yes you can, just go to icloud.com and log in.

Sun was not happy about it, however their idiotic CEO at the time decided to act like he was fine with it in public. Look at James Goslings comment for a more accurate picture of how Google was screwing Sun.

They've bought both Anobit and P.A. Semi, doesn't that make them a semiconductor company?

Apple already co-invests with building fabrication plants through extremely large pre-purchases, and some analysts think Apple is already directly funding Samsung's A6 fab. You are right about Apple being a product company, they don't want to fund these factories. But they are forced to, because that is the current price of staying ahead of the competition in the phone industry.

These fabs aren't an optional investment, they are the cost of doing business.

I didn't mean it was 'simple' as in anyone could understand it, I meant the actual process for processing the GST is simple. It would take about three or four hours for an Australian tax specialist to give Amazon the appropriate advice. Costs for setting up a GST system is extremely low compared to the kind of revenue Amazon pulls in.

US price= US$2599

Aus price= AUD$3949= US$4134

US/AUS= 2599/4134= 0.62

So not double but still a 60% increase (50% when you take into account GST)

Figuring out whether you are liable for GST takes about 5 minutes. Registering for GST would take a few hours. Nearly every company in Australia registers for GST, so the government made it extremely simple. These things are such a marginal cost that it is ridiculous to use them as a reason for significant price differences.

I personally think it is crippled at the moment (I jailbroke mine and run XBMC on it) but saying it is abandoned just shows your ignorance. Apple just released a new UI and new hardware, as well as building airplay into the next version of Mac OS X.

Oracle are using the final sent email now, the reason they had to use drafts earlier was because Google tried to claim attorney-client privilege on the final email (because it was sent to a few lawyers). Also Lindholm has said that he worked on Android, just that he didn't work on it very much.

Your being an idiot aside, this was an unsent DRAFT email.

It is not just a draft. Oracle ARE using the drafts as evidence, but the final email also included the licensing language. The reason Oracle had to use the drafts was because the original email was at one point argued to be privileged information. It was found not to be and the final email is considered evidence.

A small amount? Apple made $2.5 billion from all ipods in the december quarter and $24 billion from iPhones. Apple doesn't breakdown sales by models so we don't know how many touches they are selling. If 50% of all ipods sold were touches (a pretty high guess) then Apple would be selling 5 times more iphones then touches. There just isn't much demand (relatively) or money in gadgets like the ipod touch.

The speed you get on LTE depends on both the congestion of the cell and the strength of the signal you get from that cell. I thought the iPad can only tell what the strength of the signal, that cell towers don't report levels of congestion (excluding when they are too congested to operate). I don't think telecommunications companies would be willing to let consumers see how congested their network is either, they want consumers to see 5 bars all the time.

I don't think the 1.2% increase in heat will actually bother many consumers in the real world.

That's the same price as an iPad 2. The 10.1 may have a better screen but the iOS app ecosystem has quite a bit of percieved value. The value just isnt there for the average customer. Customers looking for a cheap, light tablet will get a Kindle Fire and customers looking for the best experience will get an iPad 3. There just isn't a market for $400 android tablets at the moment.