Yeah, really.

I agree it can't be worth a crap since it leaves much out.

a) Doesn't Google navigation have this? I don't think you are really going to want to use your phone for sat nav unless you a walking in an unfamiliar city. Otherwise I would just use what is built into my car to tell me to turn here and there and so on.

Amazon has the instructions all over their site, but maybe it ought to be explained when you set up your phone. If I need music that Android Play doesn't have for download or even Amazon (like certain band such as AC DC aren't on even iTunes) I can then order the CD of practically any artist I want fro Amazon.

It appears to be a war between Apple and everybody else which Apple seems to be winning now on profit. Google, Amazon, many cell phone makers and many others are against Apple and together can Apple sue them all out of business?

IMO Apple has always been the bad guy by locking down everything since the Apple II. Are people really that dumb? My 2 year old Android actually will do more than this walled up Apple except it might be 5% nicer in build quality but not power or price, screen size, processor speed and it just works IF you just stick with Amazon on the sideloading thing. They work a little different and it really amounts to people not wanting any hand holding at all and Apple provides that. With Android there is a little more tinkering, but if you take the time you really get a better machine for less money.

Wireless extension cord. Everyone wants one an Intel could make billions.

Wasn't about 3 Whitworth wrenches capable of removing an Engine from a Centurion tank? We'll that and a hammer.

This reply is about your ratchets. Believe me the same thing is happening with mechanical stuff. Just look at the number of times Apple has changed fasteners on their iPhone so you can't open it without buying another tool. It's all part of the plan to keep you in the fold.

Because your joke is even older than mine.

Point taken.

A dyslexic neurotic now wonders if there really is a dog.

Why isn't anyone on topic with this? Who cares what the name is? It's a case of knowing that we can do something, but my question is should we? Should an open source project want to reduce privacy even more so than it is now? Ask yourself that because I read the article and that along with face recognition in Facebook is taking the advertising stuff a little further than what I would think it needs to go to be useful.

They seem to have a long life span if you bury them right.

That they are sucking more money out of you any way they can like tethering, text messaging, etc. Why the heck is unlimited text messaging $30 per month in addition to your 4 gig data plan which doesn't cost much more? It's ridiculous. I don't mind paying for stuff they do, but how much data does a text message use for instance. A one time $5 fee would be OK maybe but to keep charging you $5 per month is pure profit. Simple as that and they also insult the intelligence of anyone with half a brain.

It might as well be dust for all of the good it will do us. Wait until everybody looses faith in the dollar. We are done then. Right then.

Russia or the Ukraine. There are plenty of IT researchers there, something to do with Virii I think.