There are some "Zombie Originals" too on the channel from time to time when wrestlers rest.

Just yesterday I was cleaning up a customer's hacked Joomla site heavily pounding with pings and port 80 requests some North-American IP address. A bit later the GoDaddy DDOS news appeared on Slashdot. Coincidence?

It's not free if it comes with contract.

The more it grows the more painful will it be when it rapidly shrinks or even suddenly collapses. And it will. Eventually.

This is The Prophecy.

I actually got a good giggle out of your comment. In addition to those I had during writing my previous one.

Thank you.

As long Motorola/Google gives this kind treatment to only Apple or maybe some world-famous patent troll companies.

--- An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

Why so complicated and technical?

Unlocking the bootloader can cause death, because the one doing the unlocking probably proceeds by rooting his device and putting god knows what on the device.

Next thing you know, the guy is on the road exploiting the GPS functionality of said and unlocked/rooted device. But the GPS is now a bit flaky (just buggy software or intentionally misleading)
and instead directing the guy to the real highway gives him a parallel side-road but displaying to correct one. The guy - feeling really good about everything and listening to the pathetic music
coming off the car-radio - does not notice a thing.

Next thing you know some guerilla guys stop his car, help him get rid of his earthly possessions and one the way to the heavenly roads. Nice and quick.

So, unlocking your bootloader can kill you. And no explosion in your face needed for that to happen.

it's actually really simple. cleverness not needed. think about it. really. keep it really-really simple. done!

Some call it a flaw, but others know it as the backdoor.

One still could design a hybrid port which allows both. Yes, it will probably take extra room on the side of the device. But I'm sure it would be possible. Given enough incentive. The solution would be patentable. So Apple should still love it.

It doesn't charge at the same speed. My wall-adapter is rated 1A (usb standard is 500mW afaik) and the phone really charges about twice the speed when connected to it compared to charging from a computer/laptop.

http://www.gizmag.com/apple-iphone-micro-usb-adapter/20094/ and http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/05/30/iphone-5-might-feature-micro-usb-as-a-standard/ to answer your question.

And it's unimaginable to combine magnet-based connectivity with this new USB3 power standard?

Chrome on 4.0 (ICS) is no longer beta but available from Play Store for everyone (when it was beta the availability was limited to some geographical area(s)).

It sure did die on the vine /wink/ and I'm also a career analyst /wink-wink/.