I've seen some misinformed fantasy posts on slashdot before but this is a contender for crackpot 2012. Care to provide any tangible evidence of how the "The Muslim Brotherhood is already entrenched in the US Federal government due to the Obama administration" and no his middle name is not sufficient.

"(although I do buy and love Apple's laptops)." which have a proprietary connector. Apple's new connector is reversable and better than micro usb.

The sky is falling ! The internet will never become television. You're doom and gloom lacks any foundation in reality.

yah that's a sweet solution for my mother. brb having a soldiering iron shipped to her house.

what facts are you referring to? cause if you don't have any I'm gonna go with Ah, the age old anti apple retreat: "apple products ar all marketing/don't have any facts"

yah cause carrier IQ worked out well using your logic. On my planet everyone knows Mc donalds, eats it doesn't mean it's not awful food and bad for you. i don't hate google but your point is bad.

True if I wanted to wipe my ass I'd buy and android handset.

I'm gonna have to go with every respectable tech site saying that iOS is a smoother experience as opposed to your random comment. also a google intern that posted why Android can never currently be as smooth as IOS http://jaxov.com/2011/12/android-ui-will-never-be-smooth-like-ios-due-to-design-framework-says-engineer/

your theory falls down when one realizes that winphone7 was so late to market. If windows phone 7 came out in 2008 it would be doing a lot better with the "general Public" Marketing has very little to do with the iPhone's and IOS's lasting success. Also using your salesman incentive argument win phone 7 should be doing better as ms actually pays.

fragmentation isn't a marketing term for about 10 million samsung galaxy S owners. "it's amazing to me that in the Android world you can buy a brand new Android phone with an OS 2 versions out of date, and that phone will never be upgraded. THAT is a problem. not talking about 4 year old phones not getting the latest release. We're talking about brand new phones that are out of date, out of the box. This isn't a fairy tale." Sounds like a marketing term to me!

you just owned yourself. The fact that you can choose not to support them demonstrates alternatives. Something that microsoft of old didn't allow thru despicable means. Apple is a capitalistic business that offers good products nothing more or less. Take off that shiny hat it's messing with my reception.

oh come on! all the damage apple have done? You mean like push forward new technologies again and again and create completely new categories of products to make computing easier for the average person. Undermining the consumer? What absolute complete basement dwelling geek babble. News flash they are the number one computer manufacturer in customer satisfaction surveys for the last several years. As a company you don't accomplish that by "undermining your customers" You may very well know what evil means but you clearly aren't using it correctly.

About time. In before free market advocates spout about how ISP monopolies will self regulate if left alone!