This is why you root your phone and remove this software if--no, when it causes problems. Make sure you keep a backup of it though - you'll need to restore it and unroot if for some reason you need to send it in under warranty.

Since you own the copyright, you could still do that.

still better than Fox News

touché

Whoever shopped it did an amazing job. I thought it was real as well.

OSX isn't as locked as iOS, though. The Mac App Store conveys the idea of "Hey! If you get stuff from here, it's guaranteed not to screw things up! Sure, you can get apps off the net or off a disc, but we can't guarantee safety!"

Am I the only one who mods down all the participants of OS wars, regardless of side?

Episode 3.

the YBox

That doesn't count, as iPhone4 wasn't introduced in 2011. Even if Verizon's support for it was.

Hard drive, Blu-Ray drive, ethernet, I think there might be some Bluetooth in there...

I voted OS because they all seem to be running cellphone operating systems, in an attempt to kill the iPad. Point me to a tablet running Win7 (or a flavor of Linux) and I'll look into buying it.

Oh, additionally, the second group of three digits (the 555 in a 555-XXXX number) can't be 0 anything or 1 anything, so the phone doesn't get confused and try to do an operator assisted or long distance call.

(000)000-0000 isn't a valid number. The lowest number the area code can be is 201 (first digit [2-9], rest [0-9]). However, the area code can't end in 11, to avoid confusion with 911 and similar numbers.

Also, 555-0100 through 555-0199 are reserved for use in fiction (though other 555 numbers are valid).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#Current_system