Yes, Tony, I do. I never said installing custom ROMs was hard.

No, I said "I have not ran across a single thing I want to do but can't do on my iPhone that can be done on an Android phone."

Fair enough, but this is just a couple guys droping phones, 3 times each. That's not a controlled situation at all.

I understand what you're saying, all I'm saying is that people speak with their pocketbooks, and selling 4 million units in 3 days says a lot about what real world users think about these "shortcomings".

Well, yes, and a week ago I had my iPhone jailbroken.

The bigger question is "can I not find an app in the AppStore that does what I'm looking for, and if it's not in the AppStore, is it available through Cydia at all?" If no one has created it, the "open" point is kind of moot.

Google Voice is on iOS

I can't believe the "you can do whatever you want with it without apples consent" is still used by anyone. I have not ran across a single thing I want to do but can't do on my iPhone that can be done on an Android phone.

Of course not.

So, what's your opinion on the lawsuits that have been filed by Android makers against Apple?

Yeah, I see your point there. I definitely don't have enough people on foursquare to get any benefit from it, but I do know some people that are loaded up with "friends" (mostly just ohter local foursquare users, not really friends) and probably see it as a great addition.

No, the patents have already been issued. Samsung already infringes upon them. If the patents are overturned or found invalid, then Samsung is free to go about business. Until then, they have already infringed, and are seen as such until the infringing product is changed, or the patent is revoked. But, since the…

"Sony tried that one. Nobody liked it."

Apple is the world's largest manufacturer of smartphones

What...four wheels and an engine?

There is an arguably small but distinct difference between rushing to Apple's defense, and just calling out Samsung fanboys on their bullshit.

Good thing Apple isn't talking about differences then, huh?

Well...they probably have to, due to it's integration, iCloud will be the first, and most convenient solution, and people will pay a bit more for convenient (I pretty quickly upgraded to the 15GB iCould storage, and will likely go higher soon enough). Even if it's pricier, having it so easily accessible across every…

Too bad you can't turn it off...oh, yes you can. It's opt-in, unlike, say anything facebook does, so your concerns. There are a ton of people that don't look over their shoulder worrying about what people have to say about where they go.

It is "the internet"; just like everything that's dynamically updated from a remote location. The difference is that it is not locked away in a browser, so it can have some more in depth functionality and performance improvements over something that runs as a "web app" within another app (the browser).