Thanks for the screed. In fact, I'm with Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. All OSes give me good reasons to upgrade and the occasional crappy one not to. iTunes 12 sucks but Yosemite is largely great, and I say that as a human who can think for myself and understands technology perfectly fine.

Most adolescent, pissed-off, mean-spirited 45-year-old I know. Though perhaps I just don't listen to enough talk radio.

Can I please go back to 10? I miss you, iTunes 10.

Wah.

Sure, but I can just walk into a store and pick one up right now. Buying a half-obsolete phone is one thing. Endure some stupid charade just for the right to buy one is wholly another.

Beg for an invite or line up like cattle for a half-obsolete phone? No thanks. I'll stick to companies who have their act together and don't need to resort to nonsense stunts like these. OnePlus will be a footnote soon if it keeps this silliness up.

Surely you don't need the difference between these two situations explained to you. I hope you're just playing daft.

Would love to be excited about this, but a wholly democratic street full of pedestrians AND drivers AND bikers all lost in their phones scares me.

That looks like a nightmare. Only teachable lesson here is what NOT to ever do. I can also pick up things up from the floor really easily with my hands, but guess what? Still using shelves instead of strewing all my things randomly around the floor.

Nope. On no level is this particular event Apple's fault. Sorry. This has zero to do with anything other than CurrentC, and Apple's transgressions in other markets do not play here with Apple Pay playing nice with existing contactless payment standards.

Yes, it's Apple's fault CVS and Rite Aid decided it's bad news that someone finally gave NFC payments real momentum and made their upcoming QR code bank account nightmare look like fly shit by comparison.

You're obviously not a business owner, Eric. These credit card fees that we pass onto customers are a HUGE expense for us! We want to just charge customers for the fee without having to pay it ourselves. If we can't do that, the customers lose!

But first, some preemptive whining from the pot before he calls the kettle black.

That's Mayor Thomas J. "Tommy" Carcetti. Who's Littlefinger?

I always enjoy it when a commenter is the only one doing the thing he simultaneously is condemning and telling everyone not to do. Your high horse only has one good leg, bud.

Sacks of garbage. Never trust a pig with a badge.

/looks for Chernobyl, finds N64 cartridges instead

Hey pot. Hey kettle. Nice argument you two are having here!

"Some people don't take kindly to customer support calls outsourced to India or Bangladesh, says Shaburov, but what if the technology could make poor call center employees look like beautiful women?"

Always amazed when stores create a problem that had no reason to exist in order to actively dissuede people from patronizing then. Good thing a Walgreens is never far away. Later, CVS.