It's probably just like a third-party insurance - phone AMEX if a problem develops during their coverage period and they'll either give you the value of the repair or enough to cover a replacement.

"Apple's insurance-cum-personal-responsibility-diffuser is one of the best reasons to own an Apple product"

Or, in typical Jobs-ean fashion, he said one thing and meant something else.

I do like how your definition has expanded to 'faltering' as a means to get you point across.

Obama has been in power for 4 years. Wasn't a certain Republican in power for 8 before that? And a Democrat before that. And a Republican before that.

It's because you can't see the 3 chins.

Maybe the judge made the decision based on not taking into account stupid lawyer-esque arguments based on the idea that 'stupid customers are stupid' and might buy the wrong product?

I think Apple are actually subtly targeting Sony & Nintendo. Who would want a Vita or a Wii-U now for anything but the first-party games.

Most people probably aren't aware of Poitier's status because he's only connected to the commonwealth by virtue of his citizenship in the Bahamas.

"And Apple's always got some a surprise or two in store."

If you had been knighted for services to the industry you love working in, surely you're allowed to ask for something back, no matter how little?

Gawrsh

The hardware is irrelevant (don't forget that the new Kindle's are cheap Android tablets).

That's one-to-one *student* discounts because they use the Amazon idea - get someone hooked on your hardware so they'll throw money at your services.

Of course, the big question is whether the picture in the top right shout-out is of a hand or a...

The Touch succeeded on the back of the 30-pin accessory market. Now Apple have kicked all the legacy equipment to the kerb, now's a better time than ever for someone to capitalise.

What makes Windows Windows is the fact that you can do pretty much anything with the OS, building programs in hundreds of programming languages and having (most of) them just work.

GOOGLE DID NOT CREATE THE OLD MAPS APP FOR iOS, APPLE DID UNDER LICENSE.

Did you honestly just compare Apple Maps to 'the one it replaced', which was, of course, Apple's *riff* on Google Maps. Android runs with Google's version of Google Maps, which is the best example of using Google Maps.