The latter. He clearly is against it, or not. He sounds just like the common brazilian "educated middle class" he refers at the beginning, ignoring real politics and economics and focusing on his navel gazing views.

* And when I say "He", you know, could be a "She". Doesn't matter.

I think Amazon is being very clever with the Kindle Fire. It is a new device with tons of content readily available (more than iTunes, I believe), it is cheap and, most importantly, it is not a direct competitor to the iPad.

People who want (or don't mind) a 7" device will get the Kindle Fire. People who need a larger screen will go for the other tablets (mostly the iPad, these days).

I think the Kindle Fire will sell pretty well. And Apple will have someone else other than Samsung to get worried about.

Yes, but that was when Apple was not a consumer electronics company. Most of Apple's profit is coming from the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

If they kept producing Macs only, they would be much smaller. Probably not dead, but surely smaller.

You'll understand, eventually, that some kids are not "bad behaved" per se, but simply enjoy being against their parents all the time. It's a common behaviour, and if your kids are not like that, you are lucky. That is not to say that what you posted is wrong - it is absolutely right, but, for some children, it doesn't work.

I'm the parent of two - one behaves like your kids, the other like I described. Same parents, same raising. Different caracter. It happens, and you learn how to deal with it.

ill-defined caveat regarding the nebulous property of 'percieved value to others'.

It is not nebulous or ill-defined at all, it is quite plainly spelled out in the narcotics laws of your local jurisdiction, which are by definition the local standards for materials that impose a higher perceived cost than benefit. If none of this makes sense to you, try Tierra del Fuego, I hear you can set up your anarchy there for little cost.