Yeah, and for the iPhones, he could use AirDisplay, which makes the device a "real" wireless display head.

They really didn't do the same thing. The killer app for the iPhone was a decent touch-screen web browser and a very stable OS, neither was available on the S60 devices. It also shifted away the phone app from being the centerpiece to just being another app amongst others, which resulted in a paradigm shift. Battery life on Symbian phones was also quite awful, if you actually used any radios instead of just keeping the phone in stand-by. Symbian phones were also very crash-prone, unlike the iPhones, and you wouldn't get any major firmware updates, merely some hotfixes to some of the serious bugs.
You aren't just comparing apples to oranges, you are comparing a mid-90's low-end keypad-controlled handheld system design to a modern, touch-screen-controlled Unix-based system.

Call forwarding isn't a phone feature, it's a carrier feature.

The batteries aren't as hard to replace as some non-techies make you believe. Buy the parts from chinese retailers, do the work yourself and the phone will perform like when it was new. There are a lot of people with worse phones, who would appreciate even an old smartphone.

Pretty much, yes. The Apple haters are similar to the Microsoft haters, except they target hate wider than the Apple products themselves; their imaginary straw-man Apple customers.

The point is, that the only way to (legally) aquire magsafe connectors is to cut them off Apple's power supplies. The MagSafe connector includes a "DRM" chip, which does the handshake with the MacBook and there are no third parties selling "pirated" MagSafe connectors.

As for the batteries, yes, I expect there'll be people who figure out how to replace the batteries without replacing the top-case + keyboard + trackpad in a package for $50-$150, but in many cases it'll be a worse value than getting a new, shiny top-case + keyboard + trackpad as a part of Apple's $200 battery deal. Damaged top-case components are fairly common in second-hand 'Books and replacing those will probably get a better re-sale value than just replacing the battery or selling with a damaged battery + worn top-case parts.

In case you haven't noticed, the people bitching are people who have never touched an Apple product in their life, and probably never will no matter what Apple does.

Why is this modded down? Besides, the Retina MacBook Pro batteries ARE replaceable, you just replace the entire top-case with battery, keyboard and trackpad as a single unit. It's $200 including the Apple-certified work to replace it: http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/service/battery/
IMO, at the time the battery is worn-out, the top-case/keyboard/trackpad have seen better days anyway, which makes this operation much more affordable than on earlier MacBook Pro models.

No, because of the first step in instructions:

1) Cut your MacBook/MagSafe Adapter's cable.

The user would have to specifically enable the respective iCloud settings to make the device iCloud-accessible to anyone, including themselves and Apple.

Well, still says something about the phones when they specifically mention iPhone as difficult. They probably crack the others easily, but the iPhone goes over their skill level.

This should be +5 Funny.

..and 1.1 debuted in 1998.

No, USB 1.0 headers were present on some motherboards in 1996 or so. Practically no device support, barely anyone knew what it was. USB 1.1 debuted in 1998. iMac was the first machine to get rid of the old peripherial ports in favor of USB 1.1, in 1998. It drove great demand for USB devices. USB 2.0 was early 00's stuff.

Some day, these will evolve into incredible resolutions and better sharpness and viewing angles technically possible with analog eyes. Add some good interfaces for displaying synthetic signals without cameras, and you'll have the perfect monitor. I think I saw the research for this stuff in late 90's, so turning research into mass-market products seems to have at least a decade of delay. The current research stuff being direct brain implants not only for eyesight, but sending and reading nerve signals directly to/from the brain means we'll all be bionic cyborgs within a couple of decades, if we can afford it.