People seem to think this is a conspiracy, or deliberate attempt to break things for those switching, but honestly... how do they expect Apple to know that you've moved the sim card to a new device, and that you haven't just turned your phone off because you're on a plane/etc?

ACMA (the the FCC in the US too, I imagine) has rules about you causing interference in various spectrum (especially the licensed stuff that the telcos pay a lot to use), so it is his problem.

There was an option to pay (may still be there) to get rid of the DRM (~30c/song), I got rid of most of the DRM that way back in 2008. You haven't been able to pay less for DRM'd music in years though (and the "more for DRM-free" part went away too, replaced by some songs being slightly more expensive, and some old songs being slightly less so). Re-downloading previously purchased content does not require the iTunes Match cloud service, you browse it in the store interface. Match will however happily get you non-DRM'd versions of songs you have that were purchased by other iTunes accounts/countries stores though.

Unless this has changed in recent APIs, no it doesn't - the web browser does, but otherwise if you open the url "tel:somenumber" it will just start dialing.

I never tried, but assume if you tried to submit an app that wasn't, say, an address book, it would get rejected if their wasn't a prompt first. Certainly if I'd published an app that did that I would have had a prompt.

Here's the thing: automatic downloading of music only applies to purchases, and then only happens over 3G if you go in and turn that on. All of the iCloud features that are new (PhotoStream, backups) only go over WiFi. If you're tormenting the 1GB of Rolling Stones then you're using iTunes match which doesn't automatically download to your device, you have to tell it to (either by playing the tracks or tapping download).

I don't know, I've enjoyed watching more Linux and Windows users fiddling with their laptops trying to make the right video output through the projector to know plugging it in is at most only 25% of the fun.

My Windows 7 running netbook puts itself into suspend-to-disk after ~18 hours in standby.

My MacBook Air has a claimed 30 day standby, probably by actually doing something similar (I forget exactly what they do it).

Of course, the Air boots up quickly enough not to need this, and with full-disk(ish)-encryption I really should shut it down instead.

Every time someone asks any kind of question like this someone, like you, will pipe up with a "just disconnect". And every single time it's unhelpful. This guy asked for "how can I do this" not "should I do this".

Genius has never been anything but opt-in, requiring a store account to even activate it.

Unfortunately the information on the public iPad site is incorrect, but the iPad is most certainly capable of outputting 1280x720. I've seen it do it.

Apologies for the long URL:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/General/Conceptual/iPadProgrammingGuide/AboutThePlatform/AboutThePlatform.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009370-CH4-SW7

"An iPad can now be connected to an external display through a supported cable. Applications can use this connection to present content in addition to the content on the device’s main screen. Depending on the cable, you can output content at up to a 720p (1280 x 720) resolution. A resolution of 1024 by 768 resolution may also be available if you prefer to use that aspect ratio."

It may not be worth responding to someone uses the word fanboi, but apple do make a component video out adapter, and via both that and the VGA connector it is capable of doing 1280x720, and playing video through that. Quite rankly the A4 + with the h.264 chip most certainly does have the juice to play 720p video. The screen is 1024x768 for whatever commercial reasons Apple have (presumably to get IPS at a given price point), but that has nothing to do with its ability to playback a given resolution video. And down-scaling really doesn't help you out much with h.264. Certainly playing a 1080p file at 720p never made it watchable on my netbook.