And how is 72 a clearly superior number to use over 22? They are both arbitrary, and you learn from experience what they mean.

And what is that temperature?

You live in a temperature scale? That must be a very strange life.

Utter bullshit.

The iPhone and Apple products in general have immense retention. People don't buy one, they buy many. And you don't get that with marketing. With marketing, you get one buy. Any subsequent buys come from the experience the buyer had with that first device.

And people are overwhelmingly happy with iPhones. That is 100% engineering and design.

There were "smart phones" before the iPhone. But none of them were anything like the iPhone.

After the iPhone, every single smart phone is now like the iPhone. The earlier designs disappeared completely.

So in that sense, Apple did in fact invent the smartphone as it exists today.

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I am not name calling. I am stating a literal fact.

Ladies and gentlemen, a nazi.

He does, actually, and what he describes happens all the time.

Congratulations! Here is a ribbon that says "I DID NOT USE POPULAR THING" that you can wear to show your pride!

That is not actually what the world wants. It is what you want. Most of the world most certainly does not want it.

Even worse, really: It's not actually much of an improvement over JPEG at all. JPEG-2000 artefacts tend to be more visually displeasing.

"I'm pro.gay marriage (but let me immediately make sure to tell everyone that it is actually bad (but no I am totally pro-gay marriage (no homo)))"

This is what happens when you let libertarians run companies.

That sounds reasonable, except for every single part of the statement being a complete falsehood.