Uh, you do realise that the AAC format used by Apple is an open standard, totally free of DRM? Newer, and technically superior? Yes, you're free to use it however you want.

Dey took errr jooowbs! No serously, trade makes both sides better off.

America is hardly the place where prices are the highest. In Norway or Denmark it's around 50% higher.

Because carbon hurts your health how? Wait, doesn't carbon make plants grow faster?

Funny, I have win7 and Macs with Samba, and shares work just fine.

Good for you! But how does that make it any less useful for someone else with other needs than you?

Oh no! But the TV got no keyboard! The TV doesn't do flash! It must be useless!?

Except for the fact that a laptop, this includes netbooks, are crap to use any place other than by a desk. I'd rather kill myself than try to browse on a netbook while sitting in a sofa. Same goes for cramped spaces such as plane or train trips.

You can mount harddrive devices to directory paths in windows. SSD -> C:/ HDD -> C:/Program/Data

Dude, it runs at the frequency they sell it as. What you're saying is just wrong.

I want my reversed dialog button order. :-(

Thing is, for many people the jailbreaked iPhone is the best device out there, other less restricted devices still might not provide the same experience. So to buy something else you would have to consider how much your idealism is worth. For as long the iPhone is easy to jailbreak, I don't think you will see people giving that much thought.

But you still have to use a package manager to install/uninstall an app. And you still have to create packages for each distribution.

The only thing it would take to have .app packaging in Linux would be to have the desktop environment file manager (in Gnome for example, Nautilus) recognize them. They don't need to be supported by the OS at a lower level in any way. Now I can't code C, but I bet it could be hacked into Gnome in a few hours. Then you could have people distributing apps like that right away.

Maybe he just trusts Amd/Intel to make processors that work but does not trust CRU to produce accurate predictions. If you trust some experts you do not have to trust them all.