Did Irene just get downgraded to a glorified tropical storm by the time it hits the NY area?

I agree; if it weren't for Apple, we'd still be thumb typing in T9 on Nokias and Razrs.

Price it at $99 and I'll consider getting one.

Only if you don't live here. When you visit other cities, you realize how unique it is and how much you love the place.

He means that without a visionary leader at the helm, Apple is susceptible to turning into a fading, boring conglomerate, like Sony.

That 'whoosh'-ing sound you heard is Ashton Kutcher clearing his schedule for a possible Steve Jobs bio-pic lead role.

I think Apple will definitely be a different company under Cook. Whether good or bad, there's no way to know.

Yeah, if you don't mind, message me as well. For $75-$100, it's a great deal.

Your parents took to it better than mine, particularly my mother. She couldn't get her head wrapped around the difference between the Windows 7 environment, launching the browser and Facebook.

Well, true, but you're not going to change investor behavior or Wall Street.

We're talking generally about the consumer PC business. That most definitely is shrinking before our very eyes.

I doubt it.

This is a very good point. The reason Apple is so profitable is that they control the hardware and the software.

Virgin and Boost use sim cards? I thought they piggybacked on Sprint's CDMA network, i.e. no sim card?

What, people are shocked that AT&T is a consumer unfriendly company?

Well, that's what you get for being an early adopter. It's always best to wait for at least a 2nd gen version of a product before springing for it.

How much support, and how many updates now?

Doh!

Apparently they're trying to pull off an IBM, by getting out of the commodity, low margin PC business.

What's good about this battle between publishers and distributors of ebooks, including Amazon, Apple and Barnes and Noble's Nook is, either way, the authors will profit from it.