It seems most consumers will only buy whichever router is the cheapest. They have no concept of quality, performance, features, configurability, etc. when it comes to routers. So, router makers have to keep making them cheaper and cheaper or they don't sell at all. Kinda like the whole PC market, only worse. Obviously, they get to the point where they barely run, barely have any thermal headroom, have the cheapest possible components, and buggy firmware.

You do understand that a tax write-off only allows you to decrease your tax burden by a partial percentage of the donation? For example, if they donate $1,000, their burden is decreased by $260 (using their advertised US tax rate of 26%). So, it is nice on the tax side, but it still costs then $740 net.

It's not like it's free money.

You'd care if it was in your neighborhood and your insurance company won't cover your house.

It's plain and simple: now that Apple owns Beats, it makes no sense to sell their competitors products. It just isn't done.

I shouldn't feed the troll, but you have to know that not every screen made by LG is the same as every other one they make. In addition, the rest of the layers in he assembly have a lot to do with the visual results, and those might be different from other screens you will see in the future (there are no other 5K screens shipping at the moment). And then there's the control circuitry (an Apple proprietary chip is involved in that) and the software that drives it. So yes, the results may be much better than the competition even if LG makes those screens, too.

Actually OS X IS certified UNIX. At least, Leopard was, and we can presume the successors are, too.

I'm sure the phone is powerful enough to compile, I just can't imagine trying to actually do it. Further, I suspect you are somewhat forgetting that this is really a phone, an appliance, and not really a computer, even though it has one inside of it - just like a microwave.

Can you write scripts like that on anything? A script that "knows" the state of another app? ( a real question, not a troll. ) It sounds like you want something similar to Applescript, which allows you to write a script which actually launches whatever apps, invokes the methods exposed by the app via the script library, and then does something else, no?

If so, I think the reason Apple excludes such a thing is twofold: one, sandboxing and security is difficult with such a beast, and two, .0001% of their customer base wants such a thing. Heck, it's almost dead on the Mac. It would be pretty awesome, though!

As for ethics, they haven't excluded this because they secretly have a heart of cold iron and a desire to hurt, they've done it just because it isn't desired sufficiently.

Right, they're just as safe, that's why there are so few malware apps for Andriod.

It's free for anyone running 10.6.8 or better. You might have to go through a few upgrades to get there (I haven't looked) but all the OS's between here and there have been free.

So, you're wanting to build and compile code on your phone? Or an iPad mini? If so, you're just nuts. You want to compile and build on the computer that's in your microwave? It's not unreasonable to require a computer to build code for such devices, it's not unreasonable for Apple to require that computer to be an Apple computer, and it is not unreasonable to charge $20 for the ability to distribute that code to as many users as you wish.

As for the "ethics", you're just flat making that issue up for the rest of the world.

They won't face a fine, although the EU may require Ireland to collect the "rightful" taxes. In any case, I was objecting to the article summary which states that "EU regulators are set to accuse Apple..." which is misleading, at best.

The EU never made such a statement and never levies fines in such cases even if the action turns out to be illegal.

This is another case of breathless reporters doing their best to get clicks by accusing Apple of something, anything.

Have you ever noticed that on Slashdot there are no good ideas?

The world would save so much time and money if they would just talk to Slashdot before trying to invent things!

Oh my. Hate much?

The Finnish are not famous for making things up.