The lesson to take away from this adventure is this:

Having written my Republican representative about this his response was basically that putting in regulation to stop these things is government regulating business and destroying jobs. That we should let the market self regulate and that companies who do things like this will go out of business due to competition.

Wow, there is a lot of stupid in your post.. it's overwhelming... even if you ignore spelling and grammar, and just focus on the content, and the fact that you are in support of a grievously bad idea.

"Apple carried out the terms of the agreement brutally and without compassion, probably because Apple is a profit-driven multinational corporation and not a kind nun."

lol. If this were Walmart maximizing profits, you'd crucify them.

Yeah, I guess I can see how it reads that way. What I MEANT was "this was the last thing Android notifications—which are far superior in ever other way—needed to get to be COMPLETELY superior."

You must have other Verizon bloatware installed that's draining your battery. I have a Nexus 5 and have not disabled Google Now or Google Location Reporting and my battery easily lasts all day.

Is that why you hang your hat in Tennessee?

"Finally, finally, finally" catching up to iOS on notifications? Are you serious??????

In fact, what they are doing will bolster internet freedom in the long run. The more decentralized the internet becomes, the more difficult it will be for any one government to control it.

Your neighbor catches your wife in a compromising position with the mailman and informs you. Who do you rage at? This is what I find incomprehensible about the media's response to Snowden. He was the messenger, and some of us prefer knowledge to ignorance.

Edward Snowden cost the United States a lot of money, even if that wasn't his plan.

that's like saying that all someone has to do is steal your safe, and your key.

wow, that'd be so cool! Dang, I wish my Android phone had that feature.

Really though, all games should just be Nidhogg

In other words "flight attendants really liked telling people they had to turn off their devices."

Voice recognition will always have the problem of requiring you to talk. Physical human input devices can be silent.

Don't get caught looking.

Tricky thing is that the GoPro has several shooting modes available to it as well as several cases that cover the lens and even filters. ProTune is a mode in a GoPro that doesn't do any on board color correction or sharpening (appearing washed out and allowing for the user to determine their own color correction in…

I can't wait for the next batch of Apple toys to not be compatible with this followed by the entertaining spectacle of apple-polishers explaining how they're actually better off without it.