And the fact the web is killing retail makes all this sound so meaningless. Wow they can pickup human behavior and manipulate it to try and get a sale, yet the retail sector is recording record low sales...

Losing 1.6b for Apple would mean a low quarter for them. Not end of the world damaging but is in their best interests to avoid if they can.

1.6b is a sweet bucket load of iPhone sales.

You're missing out on seeing the pioneer of laser-latex-flexing :)

Watching Catherine Zeta-jones flex around a bunch of lasers ... Yeah maybe I missed the definition myself

And your pitching that Boeing has the best tech?

"please ensure that all mobile devices are switched off, if you have a mobile phone with airplane made, switch to this mode then switch your phone off"

Let's not forget the constant electrical issues qantas planes have experienced on their NEW commercial airliners.

Perhaps so, but it's not like Boeing will give India the cream of the crop or at a competitive price. Australia's purchase of Hornets put us behind Indonesia's air attack capability, 18m a plane vs the 250k per mig, Hornets are nice planes but put us way out numbered against our nextdoor neighbors.

Boeing is over priced, French, russian, sweden all make pretty good fighters even so Boeing struggles to pull off cobra maneuvers. Russians can perform landing cobras and the, swedish planes can do variants of these maneuvers not quite as good as the US equivalent, actually the US equivalent matches up pretty poorly.

Stealth fighters would be the only reason to buy US and china is quickly filling that gap.
         

Leaked financials ... Months before going IPO?

Let me see is facebook taking their marketing ploys from apple now?

Probably the fact that facebook hasn't had as much b2b contact as say google had. Adwords is what really kept google afloat, all other sponsored advertising companies pale in comparison to adwords really.

To not steal the words of the late Kurt Cobain "I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first."

Where does facebook have to go? Where google / bing / yahoo hasn't already been?

3x figure ... Sorry don't know where 10x came from:)

Okay, so consider but my question is still valid. If the overall value of technology is dropping cloud computing, saturated markets, tablet pcs, cheap notebook pcs.... How is this 10x figure estimated? Is it more than 10x then?

In any case the dollar may not be domestically changing, internationally it has, oil / gold prices keep going up, and the US keeps printing money like it's going out of fashion. I guess one could call it the unofficial inflation :)