Google Map is not only usable from Android devices. It is usable from any desktop out there

And Apple can not deliver a desktop map because....

I understand what you mean about scope of use, but in the end it doesn't matter what the scope is, if enough care is put into the mapping solution. Even if they don't deliver a desktop version of the mapping service.

Apple are highly unlikely to put out an API for other to use as they wish like Google did.

That is 100% wrong.

The strongest reason I see for Apple to replace Google with their own mapping solution is in fact to give iOS developers an API they can "use as they wish".

The current Google Maps API is rife with restrictions. Have to watch the geocoding load from your app or it will be shut down. Can't overlay turn-by-turn instructions (what? You thought that restriction, meant to drive you to back to Google Maps, came from Apple?)

Apple having their own mapping system means NO restrictions on developers, or at least ones directly related to load only and not the protection of Google revenue streams...

At the end of the day if it's only available on iOS and Mac then it's essentially on a minority of devices on what is now a minority platform.

There are still more iOS devices than Android devices overall.

Especially in the U.S. Here's a conundrum for you. Sprint & AT&T and Verizon have all said the iPhone is leading smartphone sales, usually by a good margin.

So how exactly would Android have more units sold in the U.S. if that continues to be true?

... including Chavez supporters and ALL THE OPOSITION. In fact, this is the ONLY issue, after 13 years, where both sides agree completely.

(sorry, posted as anonymous by mistake. this is not redundant)

It's very easy to have an opinion when you live in a first world country. But when you have experienced the level of violence on the streets (regardless of your support or not for the regime), this measure is like a (small) breath of air.

Our situation is very different than in other countries. In all my life I've seen, while walking on the street, 4 people get killed by gunshots. All of them robberies. How many people can claim to have witnessed that much crime while simply walking on the street? And the first one was when I was 10 years old ... long before Chavez.

Violence runs on the blood of the people here. It's a really sad state of affairs. You can be shot for not letting a car pass, or just looking at the wrong woman on the street.

I'm not saying that this is a perfect solution, or that this will solve all of our problems. This will not solve the deep problems that cause people to kill each other like nothing happened. But for once EVERYONE is at least trying, regardless of political views. And I really hope they succeed.

Again, Nokia would be the ones licensing out the patents either way. They truly only cared about their design being chosen because they thought it was better. Them needing money or not does not enter in as a factor.

I would not count out Nokia or Windows Mobile yet. Microsoft has too much money and needs WM to succeed too badly to give up without a huge fight. And Microsoft has only just begun, they were waiting really for alignment with Windows 8. Win or lose, the battle will be interesting.

The new design, being really similar to the old one, also means that Nokia holds the patents for it already.

That is what Nokia is saying they are licensing out, that they were threatening not to allow licensing of before... but they will go along to move the mobile industry forward.

You mentioned the U.S. seized a few domains. I also think that was wrong.

But the U.N. would block whole CATEGORIES of domains from even existing.

You are worried about a theoretical Kill Switch on the internet. The U.N. wants a Kill Switch on every website...

to be pressed by the Chinese or Russians as they see fit.

And you are seriously arguing against the U.S. on this one? Yes they could improve but you don't seem to be grasping how much worse things could get, very quickly.

Who cares if anyone can surveil was is sent across the internet. That is rather the point of a public network, and if you don't want others to snoop then you encrypt.

ANY of the other stuff inherently breaks the internet or at least seals it off to a huge portion of the planet.

It's not even close which is why even in the middle of an election season two diametrically opposed parties are dead set against it, in unison.

WIth iKeelYou, the "Secure Boot Chain" is an ACTUAL chain.

Ouch!

Everyone has been thinking Apple will launch a TV (as if!), but with the release of this guide, my suspicions are confirmed - the next major Apple product is iKeelYou, an enterprise/home defense bot.

The security manual is here to prep us with the understanding that the core of iOS has the strength, security and doggone sticktoitiveness even the most stringent critics would demand from a completely autonomous bot capable of decapitating anyone at any time.

Thanks Apple for helping me and my boss sleep a little more peacefully...

iKeelYou - Welcome!

Excellent suggestion.

The entire "secure" approach to computing seems to be as much about extracting every possible dollar as it is anything else.

The existence of Windows 8 should NOT end the manufacture of sane, open computer systems. Period.