The Wired.com article is totally biased towards Apple.

An example is the SONY concept phone released in 2006.
http://www.cellphonebeat.com/sony-ericssons-cybershot-concept-phone.html

Going by Apple's logic, their version of "inspiration" is removing the slider from the SONY concept phone and making the front all touch (removing the silver buttons). With these two basic modifications, there is no difference between the SONY concept phone of 2006 and the iPhone 4 of 2010. I fail to see why does Apple have double standards when treating with the issue when Samsung / Motorola and HTC are concerned. (rather all popular Android manufacturers)

The industry was already gravitating towards touch screen phones in 2007. The technology was not ready earlier in terms of CPU power, price/performance ratio and OS maturity for touch only phones to be popular mainstream phones. Apple was the first to released a polished product, granted. But, Apple is behaving as if it owns all rights to a touch screen phone / tablet, which I find ridiculous.

Apparently, Apple disagrees. They believe that their patent is so broad that any action of touching the screen is infringing on their patent. Apple has gone on record to claim that a tap is a zero length slide. So, the problem is broad and vague patents are being granted and abused.

True !

There are a few statistics in the wild that explain the situation further.
Chitika Labs iPad stats
Marco.org iOS stats
Chitika Insights Android Stats

Till now, the devs only had to worry about iDevice + iOS-Version. Now, they also have to worry about iDevice-Version + iOS-Version. The market fragmentation argument claimed by Apple as a benefit against Android has just started getting nullified.

As Apple starts penetrating further into price-sensitive and high volume markets like India where there is no concept of contract lock-in, fragmentation may become more prominent. People tend to hold on to "working" devices for longer and device upgrades are not as frequent. There is no operator subsidy to encourage a device upgrade.

So, in summary, yes. Fragmentation "may" hit Apple and it cant be written off as only some Android specific problem now.

Please do not mod the GP to five. It is just spreading more FUD and the parent post is supporting without checking all the facts.

The summary on every page of the wikileaks releases say the following:

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

Also, everyone who claims to have bothered to visit the website, would know that Dow was just one of the clients.
List of clients is available here.
List of all releases by Wikileaks is available here.

I hope the parent post would have done some research before flaming others for making BS posts without visiting the wikileaks website.

So, Dow just bought the assets in the 50.5% buy from Union Carbide India Ltd. and all the remaining liabilities were renamed to Eveready Industried India Ltd?

Sure, EIIL also has to share the liabilities. But, Dow and UCC (the previous owners of UCIL) cant wash their hands off by saying that "we used to own that company at some point of time and now we dont."

A truck analogy. I jointly own a truck with my friend. While we both are travelling in a drunk state, we run over a bunch of pedestrians. After the accident, I sell off my part of ownership of the truck to someone else and leave the country. I start working for a different transportation company as their truck driver. The new company in the other country claims that the truck using which the murder happened has been re-painted and ownership of that truck lies with someone else. I claim that I no longer own the truck and hence I am no longer responsible for the death of pedestrians. Is that fair?

And, Union Carbide is a wholly owned subsidy of .......... ?

The company acquiring Union Carbide has also acquired all the liabilities along with the assets. Dow has pretty much everything to do with Union Carbide and the Bhopal disaster. If Dow did not want the "baggage" that came along with the Union Carbide purchase, they should have stayed away from it.

Possibility aside... it is appalling that the minister wants to pre-censor all the content generated by users. What he is suggesting is that all user generated content be reviewed before it goes online. This is just intolerance to opposing views.

Almost all social networking websites have a "report abuse" mechanism that is most probably checked by humans after some automated filtering. The point is why introduce censorship of any kind that can affect free speech in a democratic country.

I would have given him due credit if he had asked the websites to improve their abuse check mechanisms or asked for a faster resolution of reported posts / pages. But, his suggestion is to prevent any potentially objectionable post from going online. There is no way this can be justified in a free country.

I'm curious. While you argue in favor of jailbreak as a right of the customers, you are not okay with unlock.

Why is it okay for a company to disallow use of a product with any network. Once the customer has paid for the phone, its his/her choice which network to use.

A different way to look at the assumption is, the guys who will be making and maintaining "telex" nodes will not sell them to any Government or ISP that censors the internet.

And the telex client software will change the public keys used to sign the encrypted requests periodically via some update mechanism. This will ensure that ISPs that had claimed to be anti-censorship earlier to get hold of telex boxes with private keys can not turn on their censor filters later and use the old telex boxes to intercept traffic.

Now what does that tell a person ? Pick one ore more from the below
(1) Micro-usb sells a lot more than the proprietary apple cable. It runs out of stock sooner.
(2) Standardization is good. No store keeper finds it lucrative to sell overpriced proprietary cables.
(3) Standardization allows users to use one cable with multiple accessories. Hence, reducing market demand.

CRAWDAD is a community based effort of sharing data captured on a wireless network, only after anonymizing. This has proved to be very useful to the research community in general.

Very real statistics about the protocols used and the kind of traffic patters observed over a period of time can be observed from the data sets. All of this with users not being very conscious of their activities. I say this because some of the data sets are for durations as long as 5 years. It is a lot easier to avoid surfing pron for a 45 minute lecture than to avoid it altogether for the entire duration of stay on campus. Having said that, I am sure some of the detailed statistics like popular IM clients, top 20 websites etc can not be found out from the CRAWDAD traces.