The annual fee is $99, which is probably just enough to cover costs. Compared to all the other costs involved in developing an application it's negligible.

My bank uses a token that require me to insert my debit card into the token, enter my PIN and type in resulting code to log in. For transferring money I need to insert my card, enter PIN, enter code from the screen into token and then type in code from token.

Never heard of a proper bank requiring just a password.

They probably see it as a new manufacturing process (die shrink) comes before a new architecture designed with that process in mind.

You know the whole Anders Breivik thing happened in Norway, not the Netherlands; right ?

i'm not familiar with the situation in the US, but here (.nl) it is a good thing to have the tax service owe you money. No bank pays as much interest as the tax service.

Mostly cabs in europe.

Not really. I as the consumer enter a contract with the retailer. I pay them money and they provide me with a product, they are responsible for delivering a decent product and therefore have to give a warranty. Where they got the product from and how they provide the warranty is none of my concern, I didn't enter a contract with the manufacturer, as far as I know they don't exist.

How is this a screw you ? All retailers were already required to offer 2 years warranty, if you buy directly from Apple they are the retailer and thus required to provide the warranty. It was just Apple not complying with the law, which has now been corrected.

If you buy at a retailer, you pay more than the retailer pays Apple, part of that difference is the warranty the retailer is supposed to provide. If you pay full price to Apple the same applies.

The 4S contains better hardware for isolating voices and suppressing background noise at a distance, this is supposedly needed to make the Siri UX good enough for Apple's standards.

Because Farnell and RS deal in electronics, they not only sell the Raspberry Pi's, they also produce them.