The difference in how customers are being treated could be due to the severity of the issue, though. Samsung has never been highly rated in terms of customer service, but having phone batteries catch fire/explode on people requires a company to step up if they want any chance at salvaging their reputation.

VR still seems like a gimmick to me. Like waggle controls and the Kinect before it, people will inevitably prefer sit-down gaming in the long run, and I'm pretty sure VR will revert to merely simulating a 50"+ screen by strapping it to your face.

Everybody's favorite type of argument: semantics

To be fair to Apple, they've yet to have a phone routinely catch fire and/or explode on people. Compare to Samsung, who initially tried to ignore the fact that replacement phones from their recall were also exploding, and one of their employees accidentally sent an internal SMS to a person who was calling support to report his phone exploding with the following text:

"Just now got this. I can try and slow him down if we think it will matter, or we just let him do what he keeps threatening to do and see if he does it."

Comparing the response of a company's phone bending versus another company's phones exploding is reaching.

Feel free to make & sell your own designs for $29 a piece - I would be one of your customers, unless someone else is cheaper than you.

Maybe because he was on the phone with someone already (his girlfriend) at the time, and thought he had better chances to run than to call the police that may show up in 15 minutes, when its too late?

I didn't know Romney had a /. account

I guess for that to happen, you would need a story about a prediction from 30 years ago that turned out to be wrong. And guess what, then everyone would say that's redundant because there were thousands of those from that year. Now, wouldn't it be interesting if both those studies were done by the same people/institute/method/etc?

We should ban any weapons or other tools those people use as well, including cars, bats, and dogs

Phones used to be there to call people. For that, you need a network. If people don't know anyone else on the network, many will not even consider it.

Now, if you would market it as a "mobile internet service that can also make some phone calls" - I think it would work today. Maybe 2 years ago was still too early - iPhone was only with AT&T, and Android was not wide spread yet.

It sounds like you had a good idea, but your timing was just a bit too early.

I think even means something different than what you think it means

Why do you think that a "nanosatellite" needs to control its attitude?

The questions is: Will the people living int he US finally elect a competent set of leaders, or will this worsening problem require an external solution? I guess another alternative would be a revolution? How many more years like this?

one for each customer, of course! Do you know how long it takes to install & configure one PC?