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Their entire advertising campaign could be: we are not AT&T. They would still get more iPhone users in 1 year than AT&T managed in ~3 years.

Of course there are other complaints about the iPhone. The point is the #1 reason people either don't like the iPhone or have not purchased it is because it is only available through AT&T. When the iPhone is offered through other carriers, AT&T will likely lose many customers. But overall Apple would gain the people waiting for it to go multi-carrier, plus the people who hate Android, and the people who don't get good AT&T coverage in their area. Google is already maxed out their customer base, Apple has tons of room for growth in the US.

When you have 100+ handsets sold by every carrier under the sun, of course you will sell more. Microsoft just dropped the ball and Google swooped in to take advantage of Apple's contract with AT&T. If it ended a couple years ago who knows if Android would even exist today. When it expires and Apple is allowed to sell the iPhone with whoever they want, Google is going to be hurting. The only complaint about the iPhone is you can only use it on AT&T. Compare that to all the criticisms of Android phones (bad user interface, slow upgrades, no upgrades, poor support, etc.)

Do you want the government who has it anyway or do you want Facebook who will sell it. Each has their own advantages and disadvantages. I personally would prefer the government to be in charge of my identification because they already handle it will passports, social security and driver's license. It only hurts me to give all this information to a company like Facebook.

Credit card companies are certainly not happy with the amount of internet fraud they have to deal with. If the US had a standardized system for online identification, you can bet it would be required by all websites who want to continue to accept credit card transactions. It would be nice to ship packages once again to somewhere other than my billing address.

If you brought in billions in revenue to the state, you too could have special laws enacted for your benefit.

How awful is it that detectives were able to discover that her husband searched for information on the exact thing that killed her shortly before her death, along with other methods of killing someone. On top of that he attempted to delete traces of it. This is an invasion of piracy.

Every 2-3 years Apple has been releasing a product into a brand new space now. People are currently focused on the iPad. But the question every investor wants answered is what comes next and how successful could it be? Apple is already over the iPad while other companies are still trying to copy it.

Resurrecting an animated show is a whole lot easier and cheaper than rebuilding sets, getting back actors, etc. Everything about an animated show can be replaced, even voice actors.

It must be by some miracle that Slashdot and every other website out there, makes money on advertisements. Or maybe not everyone uses advertisement blockers. I would guess Wikipedia could still make double or triple their operation cost, despite all the people blocking advertisements.

That is precisely the sort of attitude that gets us enhanced pat-downs and video cameras monitoring our every move.

I can't believe you got marked insightful with a comment like that. Advertising = TSA? What a joke.

Isn't there a big empty space down the left side of most pages? What is the difference between it being blank or there being an advertisement there.

If you are part of a gang that commits a crime, you don't get a pass later if you decided to quit. That is all Anonymous has really turned into at this point, a gang attacking websites who they don't like. They are no different than motorcycle gangs of the past.

I don't know the specific stories behind all those applications. If Apple thinks they can do something better, they will do it. They made a better way to buy music, a better MP3 player, a better smartphone, and a better tablet computer. If someone already had already setup an app store before the iPhone, I bet they either would have bought it or worked with them to make it the best service it could be. If Apple tried to make this App Store while someone else already had, there would probably be a lawsuit over trying to monopolize the market.