I saw Dashboard somewhere cool too, but I doubt you've heard of it.

FYI, just block the ads doesn't mean you're not being tracked.

Must be nice to have more cash than anger management skills.

"you've also probably seen all of them a hundred dozen times"

And here I was thinking iPhone 5 could fit five rows of icons on the springboard. I'm glad to have learned that it simply has four rows with stretched out icons.

Yes. It's not completely impossible to survive, just unlikely. Ergo, it's not "literally" impossible.

Nice avatar.

They might have to accept 'em, but you're the genius who'll have to lift ~85lbs. worth of pennies up onto the counter.

One at a time, ladies.

The same people complaining about Apple ditching a 10-year-old connector design are the same people who say that Apple never does anything new.

I remember when I purchased my Honda Civic (which was in the days before the iPhone), I asked about a few features that were cutting edge at that time. The salesman was very upfront and told me "look, Honda is never the first to implement something. But when they do eventually add it, their implementation is better…

"It's not good for anyone..."

What if the all the components were see-thru too, huh? What then, smart guy??

That is because a large majority of [people] are [not tech savvy].

"You guys"? Jimmy Kimmel does not work for Gizmodo.

Weird. My MacBook only has non-proprietary ports. It must be broken.

Yet if the base iPhone price was bumped to $250 and an adapter were included, no one would've batted an eye.

Bummer.

Can't talk, I'm busy stocking up on dock connector accessories.

"hella weird" is the expression you're going for :)