The REAL question is tethering! I don't want to jailbreak, but I want tethering badly (double so if we're talking about LTE).

It would be silly for any application developer that is worried about piracy to rely solely on Apple's DRM. There are ways to address this beyond the "phone home" method.

@Stefan Nowak: This is one of those situations where what people say they want and what they want are different. Several companies have tested prototypes with less bezel and the result is the same, every time. Users get too frustrated with accidental input and have a bad impression of the product.

I might have to get a Blu-ray player now...

If the processors are individually weak, if you had lots of them an sufficient parallelization, it wouldn't matter. And nVidia is very good at parallelization.

@V864: A boy can dream, can't he? If Ubuntu supports the modem, that would be boss. Just as long as it's a *nix

Hackintosh time!

@Onizuka-GTO: region codes are arcane, and they will have to give it up, eventually one way or another.

@MazdaMania: Hardware specs are red herrings. Most people don't understand hardware specs, just "Does it look good?", and "Is the experience smooth?". Screen size, this is a matter of preference. I find the EVO to be too clumsy.

@MazdaMania: If everyone agreed with you, no one would be buying iPhones anymore, but that's demonstrably not the case.

@petergriffin325: And a reasonable tethering plan? If the termination fee isn't too nasty, yes. Although I have a friend who has an LTE dongle and it seems to be on par with my Wi-Max dongle IE not appreciably faster. Of course it's possible that in that particular area they just have crappy backhaul.

@MazdaMania: Android will be dominant simply because the manufacturer independence assures cheap or even free phones. I've seen ads from Virgin and Cricket advertising free Android phones. Apple will never go into that space. Apple has always been about the higher end of the market, and I don't see Android digging…

@vinod1978: Even with a numerical tower advantage, that doesn't tell us what Verizon's geographic load factor is. 50% more towers in Pennsylvania don't help someone who lives in Georgia. Moreover, if Verizon is sitting at 80% capacity in a given metro area, and then suddenly thousands of new owners jump the AT&T ship,…

Yea, but GoogleDNS is very helpful for ensuring against DNS poisoning or other funkiness.

How is it "identity fraud"? Because her username = her identity? A more sensible 'real world' analog would be figuring out the combination to a safe. I would think that fraud would indicate an intent to deceive. But then again I'm not a lawyer. But then again lots of prosecutor types don't understand technology, thus…

This year I attended a half-Hindu wedding. Turns out they really do take a long piece of cloth and tie the two people together. Funny how disparate cultures come up with similar metaphors...

@Plumbum: This article makes no mention of a church. You're being trollish...

I bet those 'innocent girls' were already stolen pics sent by spammers...

How about this:

Things that concern me: