News flash: there is a lot of land between the coasts of North America, and it's priced vastly cheaper than most of the coastal states.

There's also a lot of people between the coasts that enjoy not having the ridiculous cost of living you see in the Northeast, and California.

Oh, so just like the Touch ID, which is getting an API in iOS 8.

It's almost like people around here are looking for any reason to bash Apple whatsoever...

They don't have to interoperate, they just need to co-exist. Much like Visa and MasterCard.

Competition is a good thing.

The stores are changing out the PIN pads because if they don't have equipment that can read "chip and PIN" cards next year, the liability for payment card fraud shifts to them instead of the banks.

If you're already replacing the equipment to deal with the new version of the payment cards, might as well add the NFC module necessary to support RFID cards and Google Wallet / Apple Pay at the same time - the major expense isn't with the equipment, it's to get the technician out there to actually do the install.

Every photo on that link that even would remotely have aspect on the camera, shows the "bulge".

And we're talking about 0.8mm here, which is absolutely retarded anyway.

You clearly don't know the first thing about accepting credit and debit cards. Without the payment networks, NOTHING happens at point-of-sale.

Retail lives and dies by the Payment Card Industry standards and audits. Without Visa / MC / Discover / Amex, you are a cash-only business. Period.

Yeah, because the puck mouse was such a great design, which Jobs was all over back in the day.

The man was hardly infallible.

You always see the button side of the phone. The camera is on the opposite side. 1mm is likely to be obscured simply by the positioning in the photo.

If they cared so much about it to doctor the photos in a completely obvious way, why wouldn't they just make the case 1mm thicker instead of risking the lawsuits?

This whole article is troll bait.

So, exactly what Microsoft did when they released Windows 8 / 8.1 / 8.1 "Spring Update" ?

Horseshit.

6 year old Dell desktop hardware, and Windows didn't have an audio driver that would drive the headphone jack. Had to get a reference driver from Realtek and deploy it to hundreds of machines so that our IP telephone project wasn't derailed by a completely shit default driver that absolutely DID NOT "work just fine."

Nope. There's still plenty of embedded devices and ruggedized devices for logistics that are running Windows Mobile / Windows Embedded.

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He might not be 10x as much as that guy in Hai Phong that keeps burning tires and mattresses for fun.

That guy is a dick!

So radio and television isn't communication, according to you.

Good to know.

Nope. We are not Google's customers - those are the advertisers.

We are the product.