Suprise! There are many more iPhones, therefore more money in developing software for it. And whether the developer's perspective of the iTunes store is that it sucks, I think the vast majority of iPhone owners find the store polished, well organized and the software there to be of superior quality to that of the wild west of other smartphones. Nobody yet has come up with a compelling example where android or windows mobile or palm OS is flat out superior to what is possible in the iPhone ecosystem. Until then, the developers will follow the users.

This will be popular with the granola's that haven't a clue of the value of great tactile feedback in a properly designed steering and braking system. Those Atari joysticks are just as good to them. Even better will be when the car drives itself and they can blissfully text and email. Just like if they were riding the bus.

Exactly. The leadership at apple (Scully/Spindler/Amelio/Kawasaki)made several tactical mistakes in the late 80s/early 90s that doomed the macOS, such as pricing mac way above the competition, betting that cooperative multitasking would be the next thing in OS's (remember Copeland?) and so on... Remember, the OSX you see now has much more in common with NeXt OS than the old macOS. A big distinction today is Apple/ATT are price competitive with palm/RIM/win smartphones/plans. And soon as Apple sees it to their benefit, you can be sure there will be no more "carrier exclusives" for the iPhone. Remember, Creative/Dell/MS and the rest were all going to surpass the ipod "any day now" What ever happened to that argument?

Metro Pittsburgh: no problems. Spotty service near Wilmington, NC and unuseable in carolina beach. Yet Jacksonville, NC is great. Had issues in past with spotty service in mid Long Island but ATT must have upgraded there. Service was good on last trip. Queens/JFK area is also OK.

Funny you would call diesels gutless. Why would GM, Ford and Chrysler rate their biggest V8 Gas pickups at ~10,000 lbs maximum towing capacity when their 6 cylinder Diesels are rated at up to 18,000 lbs? Why do 18 wheelers use diesel engine instead of gas? Because they're gutless?

The problem is less about the concept of drones and manned aircraft in the same airspace than it is about the absolute explosion of drones circling to monitor traffic for the TV stations and traffic speeds by the highway patrol once the cost of doing it falls by an order of magnitude by removing the labor cost and weight of the pilot from the aircraft. Unchecked, there will be five times as many aircraft in the air around big cities. This kind of traffic level is totally unmanageable. And drones will fall out of the sky just as manned aircraft do. And when they do, the sheer quantity of aircraft in the sky will mean they likely take other aircraft with them. That's what has the FAA scared shiftless.

Time to launch a new initiative: "One Warranty per child"