Just imagining the scenarios outside the local pharmacy, kinda like kids trying to find a happy buyer outside a liquor store. Pssst... Hey... Can you help a sister out?

Don't get me wrong, I'm highly skeptical of this and often think Eric's proclamations are bat-shit crazy, but...

If you read the complete job description, this is to *add* new features (UI features, and the services that provide data to them), not "fix" something broken about the Siri UI as this headline and article would suggest.

The "it's funny because it's true" made me immediately think of this...

If you read the sentence carefully that you are pointing out where the iPhone is mentioned in that article, you'll notice—like most of the commenters for that article did—that the sentence most likely contains a typo:

While true, that particular piece of hate speech strikes a chord with me. And I tried to end it with some humor with the "gg". My moment of troll weakness is done.

Back at ya hippie douchebagg

It goes without saying...

"there are currently 25 toilet related maintenance calls a week on the sip and that's led to over 1,000 man-hours spent fixing crappers. During one outrage, technicians worked 35 hours non-stop trying to fix the problem."

There is a larger description of the science and planning for this here: [www.ft.com]

Someone with that much time on their hands, and all that precision coin stacking—it can only be one thing...

By using data, do you mean data storage on the device, or data over the network? If it is the former you can, sadly, the latter—not yet.

"What app needs that much power?"

I'll be curious to see how much stock Best Buy was actually given and how long they'll actually last.

I'm guessing at some point they should acknowledge HP stands for Help. Please.

Yep, I've heard similar things, and actually experienced it a bit myself, albeit during the iOS 5 betas. I found that at times, if I installed the new iOS version, then restored from a backup, I would at times get terrible battery life.

Ahh, nicely done sir.

That. Is. Crazy! For most things, I'd just psych myself up and then get in it. But I can't imagine sitting under that thing, watch it run, then be like—"hey, sure, strap me in." After I got done changing my shorts, I'd walk out of that room, never to return. Damn those were some brave guys.

I'd say that battery optimization is still pretty high up on the list for Apple (not that it isn't for other manufacturers as well). They still have the Energy Diagnostics (Logging) feature under Settings > Developer in iOS, so they're clearly still analyzing data and at least looking at it.

Yeah I was curious about iMessage too. In earlier betas, I had to keep it turned off as it caused a noticeable drain when it was one (and then subsequently turned off). I have it on now, and I get through an entire day pretty easily on a charge, but it is a noticeable difference from my iPhone 4 on drain rates.