Oakhurst, CA: Population 2829. Good luck getting 3000 paying customers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakhurst,_California

I think the products listed are generalized in a way to make the arguement. In the first wave, he lists (energy source, technology), aka (steam, locamotive). The second wave is (electricity and petroleum, and technologies and industries enabled). The third breaks the naming methodology and list just technologies. Of course certain forms of technologies are reaching the end of their economic impact. Another way to have stated the third wave is not in terms of products, but the technology that enabled the products. Have we exhausted the economic impact of the transistor? Even with the existing items. Electricity, petroleum and steam are nowhere near the end of their impact, so I find it hard to even state that phase 1 and phase 2 are over. In fact, when you add the problems of mainstream coal, nuclear and economic viability of solar, you could say that petroleum remains one of the most crucial factors to economic growth, and that's stage 2 according to the article.

For comparisons sake, it would be interesting to know how many people adopted ios6 in the week prior to the release of google maps. Need a baseline to understand the context, but can't do much with it by itself

While I agree that Nintendo Power played a big part of my childhood, in retrospect, it seemed to be really a gigantic set of ads masked as articles. Every article made every game sound like it was good, with no mistaking the bias behind it. Maybe that was fine when Nintendo Power came first came out, both because the average quality was higher (and also perhaps when I was young and the parent were paying, I was less discriminating on quality). Today, we do have to sort through a boatload of bad games. What's needed is to call out the bad games if they're not pulling their weight. With the price of games today, it doesn't take long for bad purchases to add up quick. While I will miss Nintendo Power, I also miss Atari Age as well New Zork Times.

... The last time I visited Alderaan

Here's the watch in question

In his response to the question "So you suffered no downtime at all?", the business development manager provided a non-answer to a yes/no question. The interviewer should have followed that question up to clarify.

Is there any reason that we're discussing this now?

which seems to have had the details back in 2008. I wasn't aware of something that intercepts skype, but based on the wikileaks article it appears that it works by installing malware on the target's computer.

Astronomers weren't lookin for large sources of energy?

Do you have an extensive collection of Apple memorabilia? An Apple I in museum condition? Documents and photos that are just waiting to be archived and shown to the world?

It's great that you mix & mingle with other Apple fans by waiting in line for the latest Apple devices. At first, it was completely unexpected to see you waiting in line, when it's obvious that you're well connected to Apple, and have the wealth to not have to wait. But now it's become a bit of tradition to see Woz show up waiting overnight to get the latest Apple products.

Are you getting paid to wait in line?

So patent issues are only evil if apple does it first?

So as long as I don't visit a page called exploit.htm I should be ok?

The story states the issue is compatibility with Office documents. Perhaps Windows 8-powered tablets was what you meant to say.