We've already seen how small the market for netbooks is.

And they'll be cooler than your old ones.

I thought supermassive black holes grew by sucking superstars into them.

I'll take Death By Snu-Snu instead, if you please.

Well, if I remember "The Avengers" correctly, you end up with a smoking charred spot where the person used to be.

Did anyone notice a dude in a bowler bat and a cute chick in leather hanging out at this conference?

Different strokes for different folks. I'm 53, have pretty poor eyesight (been wearing glasses since I was 10)... and actually prefer the 3.5" screen size that was on my old iPhone 3GS (or the LG Thrive I also had at the time) than the 4" display on my iPhone 5. I prefer not to have to use two hands to operate my phone, and with the 5 the top row is reachable but sometimes requires a bit of a stretch with my thumb (and I'm a 6-foot guy with normal hands). I really think those smaller screens were the best size for a phone. And, at least right now, I don't have any trouble reading stuff on that "too tiny" phone screen.

Now I also have an iPad Mini, which I use far more often for reading the web, playing games, and such - so the iPhone isn't my only mobile device. I understand that some people just want a single device, and there are compromises involved in making that choice. But those giant phones can't be used very well one-handed - that doesn't matter to everyone, but it does to me.

This is getting silly. Unless you're doing this for all of the binaries that are running on your own individual phone, having an OS that's (only partly, in the case of Android) open-source is nothing more than a philosophical choice - there's no security advantage.

I'm disgusted by the NSA's behavior, and I'm wary about lies of omission from all these companies - including Apple and Google. But when they make a clear, unequivocal statement of fact, I choose to believe them. Legally they could get an expensive new hole ripped for them in court if it turned out they were lying.

It was supposed to be a penny a year for 100 years - you didn't get the penny?

Who are you - Frank Costanza?

We need to start building a REALLY BIG trebuchet...

Well, let's face it. Right now these companies are probably seeing their plans for future growth go down the toilet - after all, why would anyone (especially from outside the US) even consider using their services now? I know the reports so far say they haven't taken a significant hit, but most businesses don't turn on a dime... any exit would need to be thought through. I expect this whole situation will be very bad for these companies as we get a year or two out.

But whatever their selfish motivations, these actions are ultimately to our benefit. They certainly have more clout than we do.

Those QuBids ads I keep getting in my spam folder tell me I can get an iPad or iPhone for only $8! It's so crazy it has to be true!

Nope. This doesn't appear to be encryption for the end user at all - just between their own datacenters.

If they wanted to help the end user, they could've incorporated a GnuPG plugin into Gmail years ago.

Well, only if you ignore that early Snowden-leaked slide from the NSA presentation that showed Google to be one of the earlier companies they had direct access to....

Probably Firefly fans.