I agree. They made a product that people wanted to buy, knowing or not knowing that Apple owns the product they purchased and will continue to restrict anything on it unless Apple can make a buck. I want people to buy Apple products, and I want them to continue to think they are "bright" or "creative" because they purchased these magical devices. It gives me the edge on everyone else who are trying to talk into their phones in the elevator when I am getting real work done.

"Because they (Apple) have done much larger good for general computing than Linux and even Windows have ever done."

I will not even begin to explain why this is probably the dumbest statement I have ever read. I began working in computers before Microsoft was a company, and in all my years I cannot think of a SINGLE thing that Apple has "created". But they have managed to get a lot of very dumb people to buy into an idea which ties them to a restrictive platform at the expense of every single good programmer and their ability to improve on existing technology. Now they will attempt to get businesses to give up their employee assets and allow Apple to know and control every facet of the workplace. Yep, Brave New World.

My congratulations go out to all those who worked very hard on Facebook, and who shall soon reap the rewards for their creation.

My condolences go out to all those who shall soon invest in the stupidest dot-com bubble machine off all time, and who shall see the loss of that investment go to all those above.

No, I haven't done a side by side on these two apps. I only had a few minutes to test each on both platforms. But in those few minutes I came to the conclusion that 1: iPhone still sucks and is behind the curve (hell, my HTC EVO has better specs and cost less) and 2: Siri is just as useless as I thought it would be. But it is REALLY fun watching someone in an elevator talking to their phones over and over trying to get the thing to work instead of just pressing a button.

Vlingo really operates much the same way as Siri. But to prove a point, I was listening to a radio broadcaster use Siri on the air, and to demonstrate he asked Siri a question: How far is it from the earth to the moon? Siri waited a about 5 seconds, then displayed the answer on his fondlebrick that he read back over the air. I tried it using Vlingo on my Android phone, and not only did it give the answer faster, it actually read the result back to me using the built in speak engine. Yep, the fondlebrick is always slightly behind the curve.

iPhone: Yesterday's technology wrapped in a shiny package and sold for twice the price today!

Try Vlingo from the Android Market. Does exactly what Siri does, been out for a year, and its better, and its free. I never understood why everyone buying an Apple Fondlebrick thinks they invented it first.

Did I not in fact tell everyone this a few days ago? See! No one believes me! :) :) :)

When Facebook introduced the "Like" button which could be installed on other websites across domains it was obvious (at least to me) that it would become a way to trace users on other websites. Anywhere you now see a "Like" button by Facebook you can be assured that your stored cookie information is being transmitted to Facebook directly for tracking purposes.

Now, I have not looked into the code for the "Like" button, but it would not surprise me at all that this will be the means they use.

I have created this as a journal entry. Thanks for the suggestion!