I would think that if they wanted to improve the network the iPhone was on, they would go with 4g (Sprint). Verizon really doesn't have a lot going for it at this point.

Coming soon to a lunar academy near you!

@Hello Mister Walrus: It doesn't really show 3d, it shows 2d (so-called 3D movies/videos are just 2 2d perspectives). True 3d imagery is storing the properties of a 3d space (so you could move around it like a video game, except it's of a real object)

@pjcard: I dunno, those Apples do tend to shatter when treated roughly...

@freetobelee: didn't you hear the news? It's not breaking the law.

@Nefchast: solution: *stab*

@tucker augie'ben'doggy: That'd be pretty ironic. Not that I doubt it, mind you, but it would be good for more than a few laughs.

Apple's next move: marketing cases as 'signal amplifiers' and making a fortune off that as news outlets who haven't followed the whole story call it a breakthrough technology. The cover-up will continue to be game-changing and revolutionary.

@Andinator: They're not necessarily illegal uses. I've torrented plenty of LiveCDs.

@vinod1978: Thank you. We need more sensible people like you around here, and in Microsoft's staff. Mac does it and (almost) all linux distros do it. Centralized package updating/management. What were the M$ employees smoking when they decided to omit it? Good news is that windows 8 is supposedly including a software…

@offred: I'm not speaking of mutt specifically (though if you're going for a terminal without X, mutt or similar would be required), I'm saying that local email clients have a place that I don't think will be outed by web apps anytime soon.

@tacotime: They're useful if you want any sort of desktop integration. Using kmail as my client is many times better (and better looking) than gmail's web client.

@jsmuli2: True, except that phone makers are slow to update. Sometimes the only way to get 2.2 is to root the thing. And I have no doubt that said phone makers will kill the free wifi tethering so that they can charge for it.

@blu_goku: Apple's most likely in some level of chaos right now, and they don't want to deal with whiny customers who don't want to wait another day or two. Besides, they can sell the phones right back in a few days.

Apple, there is a point where trying to look sexy goes too far. Metal looks cool too, and it has the added bonus of looking cool AFTER drops.

@Dustin Lê Nguyễn: sorry, that's not an option. You do have a choice of iAd or google ads though.

@DirtyDogg: Apologies, I had forgot about the whole license fiasco Apple decided to get into. My point is that Apple hardly created webkit, they just forked code from another project. Nothing wrong with that (right up until they closed the source), but a standard needs to be settled upon that can easily be plugged…

@MrHaroHaro: Apple didn't open-source Webkit, it was open already when they decided to use it. I share the same hope of interoperability, though a part of me wonders why we don't just use jabber's standard. Don't reinvent the wheel.

@DirtyDogg: How did they rename it? and them "borrowing" it is no worse than chrome, rekonq, or whatever other obscure browser doing the same thing. Webkit is open source, meaning it is meant to be used by any number of people. It would be nice if the same thing happened in the video arena.

I have no doubt that in rendering a mario model, the 3DS can run about as fast as a Wii in Super Mario Galaxy 2. That's not exactly a useful comparison, though.