Worse for Apple's competitors, that was in Feb. 2014. Since then Samsung is in trouble (sorry, Samsung isn't but I bet some Samsung executives are) because their profits in the mobile market have dropped by 70% from last year, and Apple can't build the iPhone 6 fast enough (about 20 million sold worldwide and 20 million pre-ordered in China alone).

Dell announced earlier, Apple deliverd earlier.

Both monitors cost the same (comparing Apple's real price and Dell's announced price), but Apple's monitor contains a nice computer :-)

1. Strange how we are always told that Apple's market share is dropping, but when it suits people, they change the goal post and talk about "high-end phone market share".

2. Microsoft, Apple, and everyone else are free to sell whatever they want to sell (if they have the right person's permission obviously).

3. Microsoft manipulated the market so that other browsers couldn't compare fairly; even if they were better than Microsoft's browsers, they were very hard to sell. If you go to a shop selling Bose, Beats, and other headphones, there's nothing that stops you from buying what you like.

Could it be just the simple fact that every time Beats headphones are sold Apple makes profit, every time that Bose headphones are sold Bose makes profit, and Apple prefers Apple making profit vs. Bose making profit?

Microsoft's _business_ is to sell their operating system. Apple's _business_ is to sell computer hardware. If you claim that you can't see the difference then you are either deeply dishonest or an idiot.

And you think that makes you qualified to talk about the value of commercial hardware? I don't think so.

Apple: 5K display with a powerful computer built-in: $2,499. Dell: 5K display: $2,499.

Which one is overpriced?

Strange. Apple makes the best products, the best laptops, the best desktops, the best phones and the best tablets, and people are buying them.

You claim that Apple could make products that are worse than rubbish and people would buy them. What makes you think that?

Or are you trying to say that Apple is so much better than the rest that even if they built something that is way below Apple's usual standards it would still be good enough to sell?

Seeing the source doesn't help when (a) you are not a software developer, (b) you are a software developer with a job who doesn't have unlimited time to look at source code, (c) you are a software developer with lots of spare time but the source code that you are shown isn't the source code used.

And open source gives the bad guys an easy way to create hacked versions of secure software that aren't secure. Someone stealing your secrets is unlikely to be impressed by GPL and copyright.

If you read at least the summary, the parents weren't liable for their kids making a post (which kids can do since you can't control them permanently). The parents were liable for their kids not removing a post, which is something the parents should have been able to control.

Eight years on: You buy a battery, either from Apple or on eBay. You need a coin to unlock the battery and swap it out.

Eight months on: Doesn't matter how hard, because it will be under warranty.

A bit older: Very easy. You take your MacBook to the Apple Store, hand over your cash, and they put in a new battery.

While I congratulate you on that sale, I really don't get it. You can get a refurbished MacBook Air, 13", latest model, better in any way imaginable and as new, with a year warranty, for $849. Why does anyone pay $500 for a five year old Mac?

The difference to Google Wallet is that Google Wallet transactions are visible to Google, and Apple Pay transactions are not visible to anyone (except the bank paying and the merchant getting money obviously).

Lack of meaningful improvements? 40% faster than the iPad Air. Which was a lot faster than the iPad 4. And trying out how fast I could make that run, i got 7 GFlops out of an iPad 4 with plain C code.

If you think that Apple showing the best possible numbers is a sign of "embarrassment" then you absolutely need your head examined.

Except that's not how it works. There's a special chip in the new iPhone that talks to an NFC payment terminal and presents itself as a virtual credit card. The terminal sends that information for example to Visa. Visa works together with Apple and figures out that this virtual credit card actually matches your real debit or credit card, and everything is done as if you had used your normal credit or debit card. The chip is locked away from the OS, even Apple couldn't read what's inside it.

The advantages are a minor bit of convenience (you pay by putting a finger on the fingerprint reader on the iPhone), but a big advantage in security because nobody knows your credit card number and therefore cannot lose it to hackers, and crooked employees cannot read it either.