If it goes like it looks now, and Trump wins.

All you climate change deniers - ever think about what is we are right? No problem, it is only the human race...

Well, we can always hope the re-re-boot might be better.

Let's not forget the 22 million emails that went missing under Bush that were stored on a server in a location that was not secure...

[quote]Anything that doesn't need high bandwidth video should be able run on cloud compute.[/quote]

The reason is as old as computers -he want the erection he will get by having 64 GB of ram in a laptop. He hasn't even tried the new machine, and has judged it unworthy. There have been no real world tests published and he knows it will just leave him limp.

Since 1984 this same story has been told over and over and it doesn't change anything. For years it has been known that it is less expensive for developers to support their programs if they are written for the Mac. It has been known that employees require less support than on Mac.

I have worked at numerous fortune 100 companies and every one (with only a few exceptions) wanted to switch to Mac but couldn't for various reasons such as they were running 20 year old code that no one understood any more and couldn't afford to port the whole thing to Mac. Or they were tied into a long term maintenance agreement with Microsoft, or what ever.

as massive numbers of dissatisfied customers return their new iPhone 7's complaining that they are too slow!

Apple is said to be refusing the returns claiming, "at least they don't catch fire!"

It can't be over priced if the market is bearing that price. The value of any product is exactly what the public is willing to pay for it.

My story is pretty much like yours - one of the devices I had fail was my wife iPad 1 that was 5 years old and the battery stopped holding a charge.

I called Apple, they paid overnight shipping BOTH WAYS and replaced it with a refurb for $99.

It is hard to complain about that, but I am sure many here will find some way.

Every time I have had to call Apple customer service the experience has been excellent - very excellent, beyond any other company I have ever dealt with.

That is part of why they have such a loyal fan base. And I know this will shock many here, but MOST people in the world are not geeks, and don't care about being able to modify or enhance their phones. I happen to be a developer myself, and I don't even want to...

Very courageous - oh, except the replacement phones are now exploding and they kind of forgot to mention that part...

And if you believe that United Launch Alliance (Lockheed. Martin and Boeing) are looking forward to farm and honest competition - well, right. Sure, that is certainly the hallmark of the military industrial complex.

Big money likes to win and can afford to buy the privilege. SpaceX and Blue Origin had better hurry and hope UAL doesn't decided to swat the annoying startups.

Our country runs on money - we are a country dedicated to making the uber rich richer.

Like so many geeks, you just don't get it. So what, he didn't improve tech. He made products that people love. |He made products that he loved. He brought a company back from bankruptcy to being the most valuable company in the world - not because the tech is good or bad, but because he knew what people wanted before they wanted it.

I bet that not long after Samsung does this Apple will release a iPhone without the 3.5 mm jack.

Put together a special forces team to find the hackers and the make a video of them being lowered slowly feet first into tree shredders and publish the video online.

Progress advances non-linearly, and fastest when someone with a vision leads.

During the question and answer period after his announcement he said that if someone got there and changed their minds, they could return on the return trip of the spaceship. The intention is to reuse the ships so the will be coming back to be refitted and relaunched to be used again.

He also stated that one of the qualifications to go is that you have to be able to answer YES to the question, are you prepared to die - he expects it to be VERY dangerous.

I respect his ambition and his vision.