And people "run" iOS4. But do they run it or do they demo-crawl it?

And what is the "par" then? First android phones (G1 anyone?) were released *after* 3G. Good luck installing 2.3 onto it, lol.

The problem (for biological things, like human beings) is going out of Earth magnetic shield.

Apple is a software company and the fact that it comes inside a piece of complimentary hardware is not really that important. But look up what Mr. Kay had to say about the companies that are "serious about their software" some decades ago.

As for "Apple's secret weapon is their network of dedicated Apple stores worldwide" - well, there are ZERO of them here in Russia. iPads and stuff are still VERY popular.

Because it's impossible/complicated to have multiple "HTTPS'd" domains on a single IP address.

Also, it's not really more "secure" in most senses of this word.

It DOES have a microSD card slot, but it DOES NOT work (at least yet, maybe we should wait for 4.0 or something).

... so whether or not it has DRM is unimportant.

Thanks, Microsoft! (oof, that's a hard thing to say)

As for Google - when will these hypocrites be also removing MP3 support?

As for your first paragraph - thanks for re-confirming my point. Web was indeed built on open standards BUT commercial software. Remember when original Mozilla browser cost[ed] money? I don't even talk about the quite expensive server software. That didn't stop the web growth though exactly because the underlying standards were still [very] open. Except GIFs.

As for current Mozilla situation though - you're totally wrong. They can freely (and Freely) implement the H264 player and build it into their browser. Why they _don't_ do this is because they are citing the concern about authoring this content (which is totally not their business, but they still feel they should not do it).

As here's why Google becomes important as the content heavyweight.

Anybody still remembering "burn all GIFs" days and the associated hate?