I can't see anyone tolerating that level of discomfort without a really really good reason.

Says "CockMonster"

I can't really tell amongst all the double talk, but I am pretty sure that you backtracked & now agree with me that Apple use netBSD of linux because of political & not technical reasons.

Really, which LCD displays do they supply to Apple?

Apple tried to diversify their supply chain away from Samsung. Sharp are amongst those who made the retina displays for the iPhone 5 (and the mini Ipad)

This would be a really good time for Samsung to put the boot in. Interesting to see if they do anything.

Apple uses NetBSD, probably the best OS for embedded network applications.

*rolls eyes*.

Is that why Cisco uses freely-avaiable netBSD? Why virtually every router manufacturer on the world relies on netBSD OSS code?

netBSD is a great OS, but it's known for portability, not performance. Apple uses it over linux because of publicity & fear-of-theGPL.

Apple & Samsung can sell us non-modifiable devices with locked-down hardware apparently this is supposed to make Linux take over

The vast majority of Samsung ARM devices are modifiable & do not have locked-down hardware. Apple on the other hand does, but I have no idea why you think Apple's locked down devices are going to help Linux take over (wtf have you been smoking?).

People aren't jogging any more?

Of course people are jogging & all the other things that a very small / light media player is good for. But the market for small / light players is vanishing because the number of joggers etc willing to get a dedicated player as well as a smartphone is shrinking.

Of course the iPod Touch is part of the iPod line. And it allows people access to the iOS App Store for much less money than an iPhone.

Yes, as I said in another post, one of the biggest competitors to the iPod is the iPhone. For those who are cost-conscious, android beckons.

Do you mean the competition between the various Apple players?

The biggest competitor to iPods produced by Apple is not another iPod, but the iPhone. Nearly everyone carries a phone, why carry two devices?

More importantly from Apple's POV is the competition from low end android phones. They're the same price as even the cheapest iPods, and offer a whole fuck-ton more functionality to boot.

eh? in media players? what competition?

The competition is not from other dedicated PMPs, but from Android phones. Why buy an ipod when you can get one of the cheap-ass androids for the same price.

(I know, I know, joggers etc like a small light PMP, but its a vanishing market)

IIRC it was something along the lines of 50-100ms

My link said 12ms. Do you have a source for your 50-100?

yeah. just like how so-called "agave nectar" is made in almost exactly the same way as evil, evil corn syrup.

Care to elaborate on that? I thought heat / filtration was used for agave syrup production, but a far more complex series of Enzyme conversions were needed for HFCS production.

Disclaimer: I live in a country where cheap sugar & honey are abundant, so I have no pony in this race.

And Canola Oil is the world's first GMO, but somehow that doesn't stop it from showing up in every health food store even though they wouldn't be caught dead with ANY OTHER GMO.

I'm not sure I understand your point. Canola was the first commercial GMO, but unmodified Canolas are still grown.

Do you believe that once someone starts growing a genetically modified variant of a plant that the health food crowd stop eating the non-GM variants of that plant?

Your only choice for this is probably iOS, since Android's latencies are still much much higher than is required for real time audio.

Audio Latency is much better in Jelly Bean, so you're probably better off with Android given how much more hacker-friendly the ecosystem is.

You quoted the GP as "I always suspect racism", when the full context was "For things like that, I always suspect racism"

The GP sounded like a dick, and now so do you.

You say:

But your linked article says:

By Sunday night, the government said that it has already collected half of the plastic pellets that had been spilled, including 50 tons of pellets in sacks that were scooped up from the water. The government said the clean-up effort is still continuing.

“This is an ongoing process,” secretary for the environment Wong Kam-sing told reporters on Sunday, pledging to stay attentive as the situation continues to develop.

In the meantime, environmental groups praised the government for its swift response to the spill,

You're bringing up Youtube?! Why?

Youtube gave google a BIG voice in the war to define web video standards. Sure, their choice didn't win in the end, but its presence changed the state of play considerably. Youtube's strategic value is immense. Worth far more today than what google paid.