"Prius battery pack will last 10 years": http://www.newsoxy.com/toyota-prius/battery-pack-will-last-10-years.html

A Prius battery pack could last as much as 400,000 miles with minimal maintenance issues, according to an independent study conducted by Toyota Motor Company. The study also found that many of the first-generation Toyota Prius hybrids are still running with more than 200,000 miles with their original battery packs. This study quite interesting and it does squash any rumors that the Toyota hybrid will need its batteries replaced every five years, as most critics speculate.

The study also found a few cars in Victoria, B.C., that are still used as a taxi service. These vehicles have between 300,000 to 400,000 miles on them and are still using the same batteries installed since 2001. These findings are remarkable.

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Sorry, link of parent is wrong, not sure how to get the *currently in view* location URL (Link creates a link to the original location). But just look west of Ireland.

Obviously just a processing/data artifact:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=31+15'15.53N+24+15'30.53W&sll=39.679105,-105.128672&sspn=0.011015,0.019312&ie=UTF8&ll=31.25977,-24.257812&spn=3.131698,4.943848&t=h&z=8

That sort of harassment and stupidity towards a profit-making company is no surprise to those of us who grasp Richard Stallman's outright, self-professed hatred of profit making. The FSF is simply an extension of his socialist ideology. Those who think that there's a compromise, some middle ground, between capitalism and socialism, are going to be increasingly well educated by the actions of consistent socialists who will teach them otherwise.

The iPhone's App Store provides a great system for distributing and selling software with many side benefits that have been ignored (outside of Apple). For example, what are the odds of a virus-laden program getting too widely distributed? Once detected, distribution can be immediately halted and its signing key revoked. What if you're a software author looking to earn a living and would rather not make it easy for modern socialists to rip off your work? Again, the secure signing and central distribution helps ward off casual copying.

On the consumer side, it's ridiculously easy to browse and install iPhone apps without any computer interaction. There is no such model for any other smart phone. The net result is a paucity of software, and what exists is really expensive. There is no shortage of iPhone apps, and the number will continue to grow, because it *is* such cool hardware and software (absolutely unsurpassed GUI.) Most of these apps are inexpensive, a large number cost nothing.

As a result of having better stuff, Apple is growing. If FSF has a problem with that, they should stick with emitting their propaganda rather than harassing Apple employees and wasting the time of their customers.