Personally, I liked the Abrams Star Trek movie. It broke the curse of odd-numbered Trek movies sucking. Very entertaining, and much better production values then the last several Trek films. That said, the desire to capture scenes "in camera" did lead to some questionable filming locations (Engineering in a brewery, really?!) And when, on the DVD commentary track, the man himself is making fun of how much he overused the lens flare effect, you know something is going on... I've always given the movies a pass in terms of series continuity and adherence to the "rules" of Star Trek. For example, In Star Trek III Scotty rigs the Enterprise so the entire ship can be flown from the bridge by a crew of, like, 6 people. No crew needed here! Oh, and let's not forget how, in Star Trek V the ship had something like 78 decks. Or how in Star Trek VI the they rig a torpedo to sniff out the Klingon Bird of Prey using equipment they had on board to catalog gaseous anomalies, except it was actually Excelsior that was cataloging the anomalies. And have you seen the TNG episode "Relics"?! The man maintained himself in suspended animation in the damned pattern buffer for 75 YEARS! Transwarp beaming is nothing after that. Besides, Spock's future self gave Scotty the formula.

Most of the money Carrie Fisher made in the original trilogy went up her nose unfortunately. Hence she hasn't aged well...

802.11a has been at 5GHz for a decade. Unfortunately, none of the early 802.11a equipment was backward compatible with the (at the time) more widely deployed 802.11b. 802.11a/b solutions eventually became available, but by then the 802.11g ship had sailed. 802.11g provided a-level speed combined with backward compatibility to b-level and at a much lower cost.

And this is different from any other major, publicly held company how exactly?

Yeah, Android has piss-poor power management, so turning it off actually helps your cause...

And what phone (with a user-replaceable battery) do you have that allows you to swap out the battery without fiddling with the case of the phone? It's been my experience that, in response to phones breaking apart into 3 pieces when dropped, manufacturers have started making the back panels more securely attached, and the batteries as well. To the point of interference fit on a BlackBerry Bold I used to have. Not to mention all these batteries add bulk you're carrying around, too boot. Sort of like the Mophie Juice case you're not going for as an alternative.

It's been my experience with Apple products that, by the time the battery is so hosed you want to replace it, the product it is installed in is so far outdated that you want to replace the whole damn thing anyhow...

The Apple walled garden results in a more failsafe user experience compared to alternatives such as Android. The higher price-points of their devices also attract a customer-base that is not averse to actually purchasing apps. In addition to a user-base more inclined to buy apps to begin with, the walled garden virtually eliminates malware, and greatly reduces the level of piracy of paid apps. Developers can make money on the iOS platform much more readily than on Android, despite the smaller marketshare. For me as a user, this translates directly into higher quality, more usable and polished apps on iOS compared to Android. Apple actively combats jailbreaking as a proxy war against app piracy, third-party in-app purchase capability, and unauthorized wifi tethering. The first one is Apple protecting the value of their platform, the second is protecting their bottom line, and the third is carrier placation.

I'm also an iPhone user. I don't see Apple as a hostile vendor; they're a vendor of more failsafe products