So people that own cars should be mechanics?
What about a house? do I need to know about plumbing, electricity and such?
If I want a cellphone do I need to study RF or electronics?

I know even more than the basics on stuff I own, but most people don't (and don't care).

So those people should all be using public transportation and rent their places (and not own any electronics and other stuff) ?

iPhones can be jailbroken. You then use Cydia to load apps.

How many phones come with cyanogen? please don't compare running a custom OS with a stock one.

Could it just be natural market growth?

I don't think the new iPhone would look like another generic phone if Jobs was still there. He was an asshole, but the products were beautiful.

Excuse me, but the iphone 4 I'm using (gift from as friend) has a scratch near the top edge from when he fell down on it while biking (he weighs around 240). His jeans did not survive the fall, the phone did.

My old 3G never had any kind of screen protector on it and survived without a scratch on the front for years...

Those are really cool to play with...

You're holding it wrong...

1 Billion won't hurt Apple that much. They're not using it for now, but might use it in the future (and/or) in other products...

I sometimes use the driver's phone to send a text message (we're stuck and traffic and will be late), or use the GPS function (again, on the driver's phone).

Unless it can determine if the phone's in the driver's or passenger's hands, it's a very bad idea.

^this

I'm still using an old Core2Duo (2.53 running at 3.8). It *only* has 4GB, but I put in and SSD and an ATI 6770 a couple years ago. Does everything I need, the only things it has problems running are recent games, not a reason to upgrade in my case. Many components got upgraded from machines found in the trash.

For the last 6 years the only part I paid for was my 3TB HDD (recording OTA TV takes around 8GB/hour)

How many of those JesusTV or Ethnic channels? I've looked into hooking up my FTA receiver, but decided to go OTA instead.

Our national broadcaster (SRC/CBC) would prefer to have people pay to get their signal, even if they are financed by our taxes and advertisers. I'm pretty sure TVA (owned by Quebecor) and CTV (Bell), Global (Shaw) and CITY-TV (Rogers) would like that too...

8$ is *nothing* compared to a cable bill (and doesn't have ads)

A jet mounted laser is more portable...

Timeout, not lock out.

People were doing that in the late '80/early '90s with analog cell phones, so nothing new here. Once you have physical access it's mostly game over...

But why didn't FindMyiphone timeout after let's says, 3 or 5 attempts? that's just sloppy...