Which also happen to generally be items associated with how tablets looked like prior to the iPad.

Funny enough, those also line up with a bunch of other tablets, which sell rather well, and for companies Apple isn't suing. Like: The Nook, the Kindle, the Kindle Fire, etc., etc.

So write an app for that. Apps can happily download data to the device independent of the App Store, within their own filesystem space. You just can't add anything to the system media libraries. Or play it streaming from something like Plex running on a local network media computer.

iOS5 detaches the computer requirement entirely. You setup/activate without iTunes and can sync with iCloud.

Let's see...
- Darwin Streaming Server
- mDNSResponder
- ALAC
- Calendar and Contacts Server
- libdispatch / Grand Central Dispatch
- etc.

http://www.macosforge.org/ is where the more generally useful items outside of OSX wind up. FreeBSD picked up the libdispatch items and ran with it.

Sandboxing applications is a common security model on Unix systems, so why is this a bad thing on desktop apps as well? The App Store apps already had restrictions on where you could put your executable. This just codifies other accesses into a model where the developer sets up the privileges the app requires instead of leaving it at the free-for-all it is now.

I guess you've had different Google voicemail messages than I've had. Certain spots they're dead on, but all too often they're simply hilarious. Accuracy isn't a word I would tend to associate with their transcription.

Alas, it's also suitable to modify his moral code when it's convenient.

And yet he's fine with planes...

I'd be surprised if North Dakota doesn't take in more federal funds than it pays out. California, I'd be surprised if it didn't pay out more than it took in. As such, odds are, the better statement would be: why should California pay for tornado warnings for North Dakota?

Seriously, however, this is a single nation. The larger, richer states help buoy up the smaller ones, which have their own contributions back, as those smaller ones also tend to be where the food is. Putting up fences between groups that are supposed to be on the same overall team is just continuing the crap Congress is doing.

So suggest it to the state of New York and/or New Jersey, as Mr. Ritchie was born and died there, respectively. NJ may be more amenable to it as Bell Labs was there as well, where much of his work was done. This sort of '____ Day' isn't unusual since it costs the state nothing more than printing a proclamation and it lets them toot their horn for doing nothing more than being where the person so honored lived/died.

Apple would also need to be a monopoly.

Last time I checked they weren't even a majority of either the desktop, laptop or smartphone markets. MP3 player, sure, but you don't have to buy from iTunes to get your music there.