A politician using a gimmick and the media to get himself more attention? Are you also on the PR department for this guy?

You miss the point. Enterprise isn't interested in coolness factor, they want legacy support. Stunts like discontinuing production of Xservers and shafting existing users of Final Cut Pro are examples why enterprise would be reluctant to make use of Apple's products. If Apple truly wants to see their iOS devices used in enterprise they'll have to start supporting older versions of iOS, and soon they'll be saddled with the same legacy support issues that plague Microsoft.

What's to say that your current favorite site will not be sold to a foreign company in the future along with all your personal data? The only way to ensure your privacy is to never put the information on the internet.

All I expect from Apple during its vetting process is to determine if the app contains a trojan or virus, is legitimate and is not selling out my privacy without my consent. And even then I don't expect Apple to catch all the "bad" apps immediately. Why would you expect Apple to find specific bugs within an app? It's not reasonable to expect more than a cursory validation from any app marketplace.

I was under the impression that the Pentium M CPU, which the latest Intel Core machines are based on, was designed in Israel.

My iPhone says "Design in California by Apple" and in the very next sentence it says "Assembled in China". I don't see how that deflects any information whatsoever. I could just as easily suggest that Apple is proud that their products are designed in America instead of outsourced to a foreign country.

Motorola sells more than just phones.

Does NB have a good vi plugin? The one for Eclipse is satisfactory, but I long to get back my ctrl commands.

Stop, breath, think. Turn off location services...

The number of Kinect's sold by MS is definitely an impressive feat, but how profitable will it be for MS on the whole? When Apple sells an iDevice they also get software and media sales via iTunes. There is the so-called "halo-effect" of iDevice owners buying Macs (evidence by Macs growing sales while PCs are shrinking). Owners of iDevices tend to be repeat customers buying replacement iDevices each time. Are people going to repeatedly buy the Kinect? Arguably Kinect is driving some additional software sales for MS, but I have yet to hear of many Kinect games that are big hits. What I do hear is that hobbyists are buying up units to experiment with for entirely non-gaming purposes which won't add any additional revenue beyond the initial hardware sale to MS. And we haven't even mentioned that the Kinect is a device that is 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of an iDevice. Go ahead invest in MSFT, at least the Nasdaq rebalancing is on your side...

Overpriced compared to what? Compared to Microsoft? Apple has year-over-year EPS growth numbers that are over twice as high as Microsoft's. Stock valuation is based on expected future earnings growth. If you said that Google or Amazon are way over-priced compared to Microsoft you would have a legitimate argument since their earnings growth thus far has only matched Microsoft yet their P/E ratio paints a different picture. Let's focus on facts instead of vague hand-waving.

What has always irked me is that these same people, who don't care about picture quality, always insist on buying 1080p 240Hz TVs when a 720p 60Hz one would do fine for their needs.

After downloading the app, before you give it back to your kid, just go in and turn on the restrictions. You can disable the app store, in-app purchases, etc. It's a bit more work, but it gets around the 15 minute authorization issue.

Amazon wants to trumpet download numbers for their appstore app for some press release, so they let foreign users download the app whether or not they can actually access any content.

Isn't Google just delaying the source release until the release after Honeycomb which will combine the tablet version with the handset version? What's the big deal? If people are paranoid about running Honeycomb without seeing the source then they can wait until the next release.