This is why I chose the iPhone over others, this being just one example of who mobile users were typically treated pre Apple.

Apple released the 3G in July 2008 and it received iOS updates until November 2010, approximately 6 months after being discontinued so around 2.5 years of support. Compare that to the XPeria X8 mentioned which on release used a one year old OS 1.6, when 2.2 had been out for around half a year and then they assume you should be grateful when they 'upgrade' you to another obsolete version. I'm not saying Apple are as pure as snow but when it comes to mobiles they highlighted most over manufacturers laziness in my mind.

As a 3GS owner I'm told iOS 5, with all sorts of decent enhancements over iOS4, will be available to me. So unless it turns out it's not available to the 8GB version for some odd reason that's a good couple of years support there too. Not one of my previous phones with LG, Samsung or even Nokia received anything like that.

Doubtful, aren't they simply a customer with an exclusive agreement rather than an investor with which responsibility might fall?

In that case... I hereby pronounce America victorious on their war on tourism. I know I have no intention of going there any time soon because of how they treat visitors.

In fairness we've been hearing about America fighting the war on terror for years now so it's an easy mistake to make :-P

we would be on Mars by now getting groped by TSA guards.

Fixed it for you :-P

Would you care to expand on this? iOS apps can have ads in them, as many free apps do, so I fail to see why that is somehow a distinction between the two platforms.

We don't, that's part of the problem.

Well that headline is misleading at best I'd say. I suggest reading pwn2own day one: Safari, IE8 fall, Chrome unchallenged in which it states that both Safari and IE fell at the first attempt, clearly it was a matter of nothing more than the ordering. Apologies for disturbing all the anti-apple ranting but both systems are weak.
 
Please feel free to resume posting uninformed comments now.

Has anybody considered that maybe this is exactly the sort of thing children do if they've been raised by somebody that works for Fox News?

murdered? Somebody is being kind ;-)

No, that to me indicates you should launch Steam every so often to ensure it is up-to-date. I'm on a mac too but I get the same options as Agret did. It observed I had no network connection and asked if I wanted to start in offline mode.

From the article

Probably like more than just a look with that upgrade. I would think even aliens would have to think twice at taking on a grenade launcher.

Over 100 replies and not one person has commented on the fact that clearly Citibank have crap security procedures. According to the article they first accept somebody claiming to be the credit card holder without authentication and then won't re-open the claim after they've been told they've been suckered. Glad I'm not an account holder with those muppets.

Which is why the author of the linked article also asked people to "Stop giving quality reviews to broken games".

That really doesn't bode well for your average linux program then. I've had to learn a few new tricks just to use a standard 10" netbook and I'm talking about configuration screens - not even some esoteric application.