Apple's stock is tanking

Yeah, it must really suck being the most VALUABLE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY ON EARTH.

We have just announced on the Official Google Blog that we will soon retire Google Island (the actual date is August 18, 2013). We know Island has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We're sad too.

*golf clap*

This billionaire advertising executive is so totally disconnected from the issues facing real people in the real world that it boggles the mind.

"Why would anyone want privacy for their medical records? I don't get it. If that causes insurance problem then we should just change the insurance system. Why is this so hard for you people to understand?"

In conclusion, open.

Why the negative commentary?

Because Google is an advertising company. Advertising companies are cunts.

if your UI is so discoverable that all you have to do is hit one key and then type whatever you're looking for and *boom* there it is, you know you have a great UI.

Apple is "known" for their great UIs and yet it's far more difficult to find things on a damn mac, iphone or ipad than it's ever been on a windows device.

Sounds like you've never actually used a Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

Yeah, we need to focus on things more important than that a female won a programming contest.

Like, why was there a dev workstation in the kitchen?

The something is "selling tablet computers".

the Chairman of the company that has utterly failed at something criticizes the company that is making money hand over fist for not understanding what customers want?

In 2004-2005 iPod was Apple's flagship piece of consumer electronics. It was making shitloads of cash, was transforming multiple industries, and was THE portable music player.

At just about any other company in the world the VP of the iPod division would have considered this internally-rumored iPhone thing a threat, and he would have used his clout as the guy in charge of The Company's Most Important Thing to have the project aborted, and everyone would have supported him because no company in its right mind develops future products that by necessity must destroy the company's present flagship products. You BURY those things. Something something Kodak, something something Microsoft, etc.

Because one of the defining characteristics of Apple since 1997 has been its willingness to kill successful revenue-generating products now in order to secure strategic advantage with something better tomorrow. Every tech company in the world would have sold its soul to have a product as amazing as iPod, and Apple effectively killed it when iPod was selling more than ever before and making more money than ever before. The thing is, what Apple replaced it with was iPhone.

For the complete opposite, see "Microsoft"

The one who squeezes the watermelon-sized thing out through the lemon-sized opening gets more leave than the one who doesn't.

I read an article that holds up Ender's Game as either a) a good book, or b) something that kids should be encouraged to read, I know that the article was written by someone who doesn't know much about books.

The New York Post is reporting that the boat is of Saudi origin.

The Terms don't say "no ads". They say "no third-party ads allowed in this Developer Preview". The loopholes don't need to be pointed out, do they?