Well, even the FDA reckons this and a draft proposal has been out since October 2011, to be finalized this October: http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/productsandmedicalprocedures/ucm255978.htm

Wow, I am really disappointed that I had to scroll down 2/3 to find the first comment asking this very question. Thank you, AC. Phone benchmarks?? Really??? I mean, this kind of benchmarks doesn't even matter on desktops, except for workstations, why are we doing this same crap on PHONES?

Seeing how many people pirate iOS and -- even more so -- Android apps tells me that DRM will stay in apps for quite some time.

To be fair, they implement DRM because the content rights holders want them to. Apple fought to be able to remove DRM from the songs they sell, and they convinced the industry to let them remove it some time ago, which is great and hopefully can expand to the other digital content soon.

"getting tenure" is just a proxy for becoming a prof. I don't know at which university you are and how many grants that you have reeled in, but at the European and US agencies that I have applied you better have a list of good publications to get your funding. And as for "not to worry about tenure", that is highly illusory. Tenure and teaching contracts may save your salary, but what do you say to your lab technicians, programmers and grad students when you run out of money? "Don't worry, you'll get completely adequate gov benefits"?

This is like saying "we don't need Slashdot or Ars Technica or the NYT, just go to Twitter and let the community upvote the most important news. People with more followers have more weight when favoriting/retweeting".

You will never again see actual news.

There is no way around peer review, and good peer review can only happen if experts choose the review panel. Now this is already being done by professors for journals (for free!) and there is a movement of high-profile profs that will only review for Open Access journals. This is definitely a way to go, and the government agencies requiring Open Access is likely the best solution to date.

That's probably what people said to Bertha Benz when she took the Benz Motorwagen for a long ride in 1888. Pioneers don't have it easy.

Science's and Nature's rejection rates are very high, there are just this many articles they can publish every week, 15 to 20 for Nature. Almost every paper gets rejected on the first draft, good ones are encouraged to resubmit after revisions. It can take a few years to get your paper into one of these journals, that's what makes the papers of highest quality -- not to be confused with "certainly true", even high quality research can turn out to be wrong.

The leftovers get resubmitted to lower-ranked journals; that's what you usually do if you want to submit something, you aim for a high ranked journal and hope to get in, if not you revise and resubmit or submit to another journal.

That is correct.

Well, you don't have to install anything to run iCloud stuff, but of course you have to sign up if you want to use it. But you don't have to, everything will just work as it used to.

Exactly my thoughts.

Ah I see, didn't read it that way. With the "certain features you can only use if you install software through their market" you probably mean Xcode, which is free but you still have to register, agreed.

That's what we go to our churches for, i.e. Apple Stores. Those customers who go to a T-Mobile store for device support probably don't know whether they have iOS or Android running on their phones and thus are totally unworthy of the i-sheep(TM) badge. ;)

I think those days are mostly counted, the current MBP has USB 3, HDMI, SDXC card and Thunderbolt connectors, of which you may count the Thunderbolt one as proprietary, but all its rights belong to Intel, not Apple. And as "Internal Modem" has mentioned, you of course can install on a Mac whatever you want. The Mac App Store is not really good anyway.

That's not a photo of a box, it's on the back of the respective iMac. ;)