Why would it take a hearing?

I've seen people doing it

Also: Some people value freedom so much they give up all sorts of freedom to keep their options open.

I miss iTunes DJ, I guess I'll have to learn how to interact with Up Next instead.

With apple sometimes these transitions are easy and for the better (e.g. almost every radical change I remember in Safari), sometimes they are just annoying and remain so (e.g. removal of whatever the grid multi-desktop ui was called... screens or something)

only 3 uses of tantrum? I think you can do better "an anonymous reader"

he INVENTED lightning!

http://ycharts.com/companies/RIMM/net_income
http://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/net_income

Looking at the past 10 years of net income quarterlies, I don't see a single quarter Apple should swap with RIM, though I didn't check them all.

Apple hasn't failed to make a billion dollars in a quarter since 2007. RIM hasn't made a billion dollars in a quarter (in the past 10 years).
(Although looking at their net income trend going backward I'm guessing *ever* since there wasn't a comparatively huge market for email phones longer than 10 years ago.)

this is a hoax

iOS with VoiceOver turned on, used by a blind person

screen resolution (i.e. numbers) is etherial... Looking at a screen and noticing it is clearly better (comparing an iPad2 to a new iPad) isn't

just no.

This is the worst slashdot title/article/posting yet.

I keep posting that, or meaning to post that and losing interest... let's see if this one makes it thorough.

" ...you pretty much have to forgo a smartphone."

should be

"...you have to forgo a cellphone."

where by "they" you mean some random author from some random site called parity news

... you randomly conjecture

... or they argue that the ruling was rediculous without dropping the lawsuit or agreeing that *Samsung* is cool.