I think the problem (and it is a problem) is that Apple seem to blind everybody with every new, shiny gadget they introduce. And everybody who are blinded by Apple's shiny gadgets either want one really, really badly (call them fanbois if you like; they are just consumers like all of us) or they really, really badly wishes they came up with this shiny gadget first. So they simply try to make their own version of the same shiny gadget, with some unimportant twist like Flash or an open operating system, but no real innovation. To compete with Apple, companies would need to either sell their similar products considerably cheaper than the shiny Apple gadgets, or they would have to offer something different and useful, or at least desirable. In short, they need to innovate, not just copy what Apple did and put a different label on it. So far I've seen very little innovation, and that means Apple wins.

Will Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland do? Just for starters?

Concern over some OTHER governments' determination to restrict the free flow of information.

There. Fixed it for you.

I heard so, but my ISP wouldn't let me access the website...

There would be too much shit hitting the fans!

... that the advertisements also are limited to 140 signs!

Don't call my ass "nothing", you insensitive clod!

Not true. Just ask the many foreign exchange students and tourists who are using cell phones from their home countries in the US, with service plans from their home countries as well. They often get more bars than I do with my US cell phone. And they pay less than what my contract costs too.

Maybe the terrorists paid cash so they can't be traced by their credit cards?

True. The smart ones just didn't get caught.

Yeah, but it might help the coppers catch the stupid criminals who don't have fake ids, or screw up and use their real one. Assuming they have a real one, of course.

Since this is Slashdot, you might want to explain this concept a bit more thoroughly!

Well, I did RTFA, and I understand it so that to get over the painful memories from my marriage, I have to take propranalol and marry the bastard again?
Being relationship-averse suddenly doesn't seem like such a bad thing!

Well, that's already available online. We usually refer to it as Pr0n.

Yeah, in the future computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tons and 640K of memory is enough for anybody...

For the last 9 years I've been doing embedded development; the last 7 years using a Linux desktop. Some of the devices produced by my company ran QNX until a couple years ago, but now it is all Linux. Email and those pesky "business applications" are still operating on Windows though. Rumour even has it the IT department is considering Vista.

Despite a few glimples of sunlight we're still on the dark side...