Features don't come for free. But really Apple could avoid this whole problem if they didn't block downgrading. Let people try if they think it'll run fast enough on the oldest supported device, then let them change their minds If it doesn't.

But the problem is they want to prevent jail breaking and as a consequence downgrading is rare.

Seriously, England said that they would do better. Hopefully, they will mean it.

Seriously, this guy has written about Tesla for a number of years. Yet, he has always been negative on them, and WRONG.

The global EV market will grow from 65,000 units in 2012 to 450,000 in 2020; and yet, pure evs nearly doubled in 2013 to 111K and on-track to double last years sales in 2014. Heck, at the end of 2015, Tesla ALONE will be producing 50K cars / year.
and here, he gripes about Tesla as being a large unknown, and not likely to hit its numbers.

Basically, Anderman is NOT about batteries, but just an industry troll, with lousy ability to make accurate predictions.

Yeah, that issue was SOOOO 30 years ago.

Less than 10%...Slashcode ate the sign.

The article you're probably thinking of is this one. It was effectively Adobe's response to an inquiry into software pricing by the ACCC (Australian equivalent of the FTC) last year (along with claiming that the increased cost was due to language translations...last I checked we speak English here).

Apple's AU tax is 10%, which doesn't make traveling to the US even remotely economic.

Do you need a good modem?

That is exactly what is going on.
As it is, the FAA is stiffling drone development before it really gets off the ground.

and more need to encourage building of many more.

Assume Ebola goes airborne and hits all. Once it is through the population, it is done. OTOH, radiation is an environmental issue that would continue for centuries. Biological death is far better than nukes.

Speaking of glass with compressed surfaces. This has to be mentioned.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_Drop

Beware iPhones with tails.

Nice story thanks. :-)

Don't worry I've seen Zardoz. :-)

I feel the idea that immortality = boredom is way off for several reasons.

#1 Death isn't everyone's motivation to do things. Sure it works for some people, but those people should pause before throwing around such blanket statements.

#2 Shades of the "everything has already been invented" thinking. The idea that we'd run out of things to do. That's hubris. Seriously that's "Watch me predict the entire future of humanity right here in 10 seconds" kind of thinking.

#3 Motives? Do people who find this idea attractive enjoy a bit of "see! You can't be right!" schadenfreude when discussing this with religionists? It seems a bit of a reactive secular theology or philosophical trolling.

But really most speculations and predictions tell us more about the people who pronounce them than the future.

The truth is, that whenever the world has mass die offs due to nature, we do not get wars.
Right now, we have massive numbers of small wars popping up. This has gotten old. In addition, it could lead to a real war with nukes.

But, if the world takes a massive loss of life due to say Ebola going airborne, it would lower the likelihood of a nuke war.