I presume that this vulnerability does not affect Preview on the Mac? Is that a correct assumption?

n/t

Well, yes I agree... except that for those of use who've gone and jailbroken their iphones... now we (or at least many of us) find it hard to live without the jailbreak. I wish Apple would be forced (I can't reasonably expect them to choose) to allow Cydia in the App Store. But... I'm not disagreeing with you, because I love my iPhone even without the jailbreak and I bought it with no expectation of jailbreaking it. I just love it now even more with the Jailbreak... and so I anxiously await the release of a Shatter-based jailbreak so I can upgrade to 4.1 finally. And, moreover, its unlikely I'd buy a new iOS device if I didn't know that it could be jailbroken. It does create a dilemma....

... the Pew Pew Research Center. Sorry.

"demand for legal digital downloads of PC games exceed sales of the physical object"

OR

"the majority of gamers prefer physical discs"

???

Apple's HTML Live Stream of the keynote was pretty impressive. There were some hiccups, but overall the performance was outstanding, as was the resolution and quality. Worked great on my iPhone and on my 1st gen MacBook I was able to watch the keynote at high resolution and quality without the fans going ballistic like they always do with Flash, even tiny videos drive the processor bonkers with Flash. The CPU stayed below 20%, often 15%, and this isn't a recent Mac. I was even browsing the web in another window and it was at 15% most of the time, never going above 20%. Stop thumping the proprietary Flash drum. Apple has always been one to drop dated technologies and pushed them to a deserved obsolescence more quickly. Flash is the same thing as the floppy drive.

I loved that game. Probably the best action puzzle game ever IMHO. It would have been nice to have save files instead of passwords, though.

It's not that Flash isn't still used or won't go away, it's that there is no end of things to do on my iPhone as it is. Every once in a while I run across a web site that requires flash. What do I do? I don't use it. Their loss much more so then mine. I'm not saying there aren't things out there I wish I could use on my iPhone, only that other things weigh more heavily for me, and in any case it just hasn't been a big deal. If it's some site I really want to access I'll send them a message and request that they make their site compatible with iOS and non-Flash. Sometimes they do that. Sometimes they don't. I'll live.

I can't believe this got posted on Slashdot, and am thrilled that it was. Such a great, great event. If you like pinball in the slightest, you need to head to Pittsburgh next year for PAPA 14. The tournament is the emphasis, but the PAPA facility is huge and filled wall to wall with one of the largest and most amazing collections of pinball machines in the world. Everything from "bingos" to the newest pinball machines. You don't need to play in the tournament to enjoy this event, though it's even better if you do play in it. Also you can pick up essential skills just by watching the top tier players, and this year there were 3 HD video cameras that made it possible to actually see them play. Hopefully next year more cameras will be put in place so that all the games can be watched, or perhaps just more HD cameras, with the facility able to switch which are shown on the big screens. That would make it possible to keep the action showing on the screens during the finals without needing to fork out for more TVs.

And thus can afford prostitutes more often then Android and Blackberry owners.

I agree that the iPhone is more locked down, but you exaggerate. I'm able to load all the music I want from any source I want onto my iPhone. Ripped CDs, amazon downloads, emusic, etc. Perhaps you meant you can load them from the phone, and I'll give you that. It's one downside to the iPhone - no amazon downloads store on the phone, etc. Still, you can download them on your computer and sync them over (or drag and drop if you prefer not to use syncing). Ditto for ringtones, though admittedly if you aren't on a Mac I think you have to use some 3rd party tool to convert them. I've got the sounds of pinball machines as my ringtones - they were free and not downloaded from Apple. I use Garageband on my Mac to convert them, but there's other tools out there for the Mac and for Windows, at the least.

Also while the App Store is "locked down", web apps are not, and they can do a lot more then you might think. See that Google Voice app, the name of which is escaping me at the moment, for example. Lastly you can jailbreak if you want other native app sources. Apple doesn't condone jailbreaking, but the option is there if you want to get dirty and right now it's easier then ever (I am jailbroken now. It's a messy place, but definitely has some nice stuff.) But that's not the main point here. My main point is that you've gone off the deep end with your claim that you can't play any music or ringtones except those provided by Apple.

Actually where you've really gone off the deep end is in the implication that buying an iPhone (or Android phone) determines what other consumers will buy. The iPhone is great if it's what's right for you and an Android phone is great if it's what right for you. Ditto for Blackberry, etc. The only thing you determine by your choice is how much money each company makes. I don't really care. I just want the phone I want. For me that was an iPhone.

Millions of Android users can't be wrong!

I've been waiting for them to release the Magic Trackpad - it's about damn time! Order placed. If you've used a recent Apple MacBook trackpad, you know why this is a great product. Or at least it should be. I hope it proves to be everything I expect.

The only thing I will say about this is that I'm a "technical user", but my iPhone has never been jailbroken. For the most part I'm very happy with the stock iOS 4 with add-on apps. It does pretty much everything I want. While I could jailbreak it and get that other 1%, or whatever, of things I'd like to do, they aren't that important to me. Maybe something more compelling will be created for jailbroken phones, but so far, for me, it's all in the gee-whiz category, and thus not worth the trouble, especially since iOS 4 added the key things I was envious of (and I'm very happy with the "limited" multitasking in iOS 4 - it does everything I want.) Mind you, I've got an old 3GS sitting on my shelf now, and I keep meaning to jailbreak it just to play around with it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

... however, two key places I either get no coverage at all (at my desk at work) or get a weak signal (at home). In practice this hasn't been a huge problem because I don't really use my iPhone that much for calls (I didn't use my previous non-iPhone for calls much either, mostly just the "should I pick up a pizza?" variety of calls). Also, at home it works fine as long as you're careful not to go into certain corners of the house. :) But I mostly use it for data. So at work I've got WiFi and at home I've got WiFi. At work I also have a phone and at home I have a phone, and anyone I would want calling me knows those numbers (as well as some I'd rather didn't, sadly). Outside of these locations coverage is generally good, which is not to say perfect. Overall it works well and is fast (not WiFi fast, but it's decently fast), especially with my iPhone 4 which, in spite of "Where have our subscribers gone?" publications like Consumer Reports, gets a signal in more places and gets a much more reliable signal in more places, then my previous iPhone. But, hey, facts such as that don't matter much when you're competing with blogs - the noisiest one gets the page hits.