Right! The last Apple product that i bought was an early Mac. Writing code for it was unnecessarily difficult because Apple was protecting the secrets of the "OS". I used SUN products for a while after that, but since really open systems became available I've used them exclusively. I will do the same thing with phones.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory addresses the USB menace by encasing the physical ports in epoxy.

You are right about what he's looking for. But Google is hurting his business by making access to his competitors' products easy and cheap/free.

I think Roger Cohen of the New York Times was there. The New Yorker also has printed a few unattributed pieces written in Iran recently.

We subscribe to four weekly paper magazines and use Google News to see what's happening on shorter time scales. For me as a consumer, News Corp's stuff is distracting and annoying clutter when Google indexes it.

I for one, second ivoras' solution.