I will never buy any product including DRM, for all the good reasons mentioned in other posts. The stuff is mine, I want to make sure that I will be able to read/see/listen to it forever.

Renting is however different : if I want to see a movie just once, I only care about the price of the provided; if using DRM reduces piracy and hence lowers the price for me, I am all for it.

For once, I totally agree with him. By the way, there is the same issue with google glasses. Only worse.

An e-mail application which only works with GMail accounts ? One day after Google stopped Reader ? Are you kidding ?

The application looks nice, yes, but there is no way I am adding any dependency to any Google service.

What I like (or liked...) about Google Reader was that I could read some things at home on my Mac, some other at work on my PC and some others in between on mobile phone, and that the "read" status is synchronized.

I am ready to switch to anything else, as long as I can keep on reading stuff from everywhere. I am ready to install client applications.

Any idea ?

Cheap toys ? An iPhone costs more than many laptops or desktops...

(for you Americans : I am comparing to unsubsidized iPhone prices, which you end up paying with your huge monthly charges)

It was not exactly a severance package, but a salary/compensation for not working for competitors. At 1 million CHF per month during 6 years...

Don't thank the government : they didn't choose to ask the voters, they had to, because 100'000 persons signed the proposal.

The government and parliament proposed a watered-down version, but the voters chose the original (and stronger) version.

Bullshit again. The government hasn't set up anything like this, these associations are private.

Bullshit. When you move out, your landlord checks that the apartment or house is clean, that's all. If not, they will retain a certain amount on your 3 month deposit.

And even then : do you extrapolate on the past performance since the beginning of the operation, or the current performance ? As soon as performance varies during the process, any extrapolation might be wrong...

Agreed. But it may also show that Schmidt doesn't expect huge growth in Google's share price...

(hate to reply to ACs, but....) My wife and my father both have a 3GS running iOS 6, with no known problem. Not jailbroken, however, but some people just needed a reliable phone. Which the 3GS is.

My kids use my old iPhones. They have pre-paid minutes, and no data plan. And Wifi in many places.

And you might even be more surprised that an iPhone 3GS, released in 2009, is still supported by the latest iOS version. Please show me any smartphone vendor whose products still get software upgrades after more than a few months...