True, but today a lot of it IS about specs... not to mention, they aren't really adding many new things on the software side either... Siri, notifications ripped off from Android and reminders... hardly enough to justify a 16 month development cycle

So, basically Apple is playing catch up with the Galaxy SII, which was released in April 2011...

meh, i think we all saw that one coming.

hope it's true, and that it also applies to the international version... if that is the case, i'll be buying one on release

5 out of the top ten Facebook markets (measured in number of hours spent per user) are in Latin America. Spotify is not available in Latin America.

hmmm... gotta start convincing my boss to get us one... would certainly impress clients...

i barely go beyond the list of most used apps and the search box anyway, so i don't see a problem with this.

That is not the same plane... the CASA 212 is a spanish made light cargo plane, similar in some ways to the Twin Otter.

there are a couple of inaccuracies in the article:

The writer's lame attempts at pretending to be a PC gamer are kind of sad...

i can smell Apple's fear of Android all the way here in South America...

i'd hardly say it "fizzled" when there's a good chunk of upstate NY destroyed by this thing...

i kept expecting her to punch the reporter...

i once saw one of this with a V8... it was glorious...

my almost-2-year-old-sub-1k rig is Battlefield 3 ready (i was in the alpha)

Pc games don't look similar to console games because of a lack of optimization or hardware power... they look like console games because developers are happy to be mediocre and settle for the limited output that consoles provide them with rather than try to push the envelope with the advanced capabilities of PCs.

Happy birthday Linux... if it wasn't for you, we would havew forgotten how computers work and would be condemned to an eternity of clicking shiny icons and using computers like we're told to, not how we want to

if it makes you fell better i can tell all the west coasters that, being less than 30 years old and already lived through an 8,0 and 8,8) i laugh in the face of their silly 7,5s, and that i don't get out of bed for anything less than an 8...

we should start a pool about how much Apple's stock is gonna drop tomorrow...

have you been to the East Coast? there's a world of difference between how construction is done on a seismicly active area and elsewhere... on my first time in NYC i was amazed at how buildings rattled and shook when the subway passed under them...