Even though you make a compelling point about the industry being able to "play catch up" with apple, your argument is invalid on a few grounds.

First, it's a prototype. Sure, the final product could be similar in nature or design, but if I were a competitor and I released a phone identical to this prototype, I'm sure Apple would make an ass out of me.

Second, Apple, in the mobile smart phone industry, has began to set a standard in terms of accessibility, UI, and practicality. Aspects of the phone make accessing things, such as mail, easier and aesthetically pleasing to do so. I'm a .NET programmer and I even enjoy every aspect of the interface, though I did jailbreak it for personal reasons. The main reason this "leak" doesn't matter is because other phone companies like HTC are still playing catch up, trying to create the same magic that Apple did with the iPhone. Here's a forum proving that HTC is still producing garbage. In my mind Apple has only a few competitors: Google's Android, the previous iPhone, and the general public's expectations that Apple will go above and beyond the phone industry's current technological threshold.

Third, the iPhone has a renegade, hacker community. As soon as the new version is out, someone will have released a hack for the phone so that user's can customize the phone for themselves. I think when a product shows so much unused capability you get this kind of following, and that is why I believe the iPhone appeals to both crowds of renegade, hacker-like, 'I hate the man' users and Lindsay Lohan like folk.

Finally, it's trendy to have an iPhone three or four years ago it was a status symbol, like an iPod, to bust one of these things out on a public transit system. Trendiness gives way to more users, which paves the way for amazing apps. Programmers see that there is a goldmine to be had from developing 99cent applications because of the large user base, so everybody jumps on the bandwagon.

This is why Apple wins at making phones, and I think everyone, including myself, wants to see another company like Google deliver something comparable, but until Google or another company gathers the widespread following and large programmer base that the iPhone has, I'm keeping all my eggs in the Apple basket.

size does matter
those who were well-endowed

What an incredibly phallic story.

What do you make of people who are performance oriented until the point inwhich they reach mastery? Eh?

Well, I welcome myself as one of the new supply depots

I don't know why you would troll Copa's post. Many of his request are not what you call "minor." I would say that there is a large base of users and would-be users who would want to use the ps3 as their primary media center instead of investing in a desktop. Many of these features along with the recent price cut would change a would-be user like myself to a happy owner of a ps3. I don't have a ton of time to dedicate to video games right now in my life, so I need extra incentives in order to make a purchase like this. Think the features Copa mentioned in his post would definitely woo people like me into this purchase, not to mention that it would give bragging rights over all the x-box fanboys. Basically, MaWeiTao, I think your post is troll shit.

Free tuition isn't a new idea. I'm a student at Berea College in Ky and everybody has free tuition because we all meet one requirement. Being poor. Everybody is required to do a work study program and work 10 hours a week. Not a bad trade off. Alice Lloyd college also has a similar program.