They have less than 30% of the smartphone market (and a tiny portion of all phones worldwide) and around 70% of the portable music players. It's different because there's actual competition in those markets.

Most people think of Jack Welch more as a psychopath.

Without that pretentious little apple logo and the "Designed in California" placard I'm not entirely sure how a consumer would be confused.

Not so. Apple's claim shows that Samsung have copied Apple's dock connector design too.

The stupid thing with glossy screens is that they're completely unusable in the sun. Every year I spend half of the year in Thailand and want to get some work done by the pool...

You know...as I was reading your post, my first thought was "who the hell works outside in the sun with a computer?", then, I read the next part about you wanting to work by the pool.

You're work habits, it sounds like, are definitely one of the far outlier scenarios if you were to look at the general pool of those that do work on a computer.

Why in the world anyone would choose a 1920x1080 monitor over 1920x1200 is beyond me. I can't wait until the day those bastard TV "monitors" die.

...but we had an app that faked it so we wouldn't loose all the work

Holy crap, AMEN to that! Vertical resolution was fine until HDTVs became popular. At which point everybody regressed and went to max 1080 high displays just so they could coin that they were "true HD" in marketing. All my pre-HDTV monitors are 1200px high. I consider that to be absolutely necessary. All my post-HDTV monitors are at most 1080 high, if even that (1050 is common). It's near impossible to find anything with 1200px high display with a reasonable price tag anymore.

Very funny post - but in seriousness, not likely because (eventual) utter lack of optical drives will herd all the Apple drones into purchasing all of their apps via the App Store.

>>>BD-ROM is the spinny disk format for Movies. it's not for software.

With the exception of the millions of Software discs sold for ~50 million playstation owners. But that's such a tiny, small, insignificant market, so I can see why you ignored it.

So you think that it would be as stupid for Intel to worry about the low end mobile market as it would have been for DEC to worry about the low end microcomputer market. After all DEC was making big money selling PDP-11s and VAXes. If they had come out with an inexpensive PDP-11 or even a 16 bit version of the VAX it could have cost them sales of the more expensive mini-line.

What was the motivation for making up the Jessica Lynch or Pat Tillman stories?

Remember, we fought a war over this before and the federal government won.

Which competition are you going to take your skills to if ALL businesses decide to place "unreasonable consideration upon" people's employment?

If I'm unsatisfied with the offerings made available I have the option to either start my own business or find another industry to work in.