No, he is. It's not that useful.

Is it a real party if there isn’t some risk of injury at some point?

It seems like, at least sometimes, he drove a car through the door.

This is an excellent response! I didn’t know that about the aluminum-body heat sink!

First and foremost, I wanted to engage in an actual debate as to the merits of apple’s alleged innovations. That’s why I said “honest question.”

My mom is from Stockholm, that's the only way I'd have ever known about it, probably.

In Stockholm, there is a museum dedicated to the Vasa, which was (probably) the world’s first warship with two gun decks. It was so tall, that it was unstable. The king demanded they stop doing stability tests for fear it would sink. Then, it sank in the river on its maiden voyage. Some 300+ years later, people found…

These are newly-built ships, you'd assume they'd be in working order right out of the gate.

Ooh! Ooh! True story about the slowness of the email download! When I was interviewing for grad school, there was this other dude at Emory who’d also (like me) interviewed at Duke. While going between interviews, I got a ping that Duke had made a decision on my application. But alas, the aforementioned photos in the…

Blackberry 8830 (world edition, baby!), complete with the tiny trackball and clicky keyboard. It came out in 2007, and it was my first cell phone. It's screen had literally *dozens* of pixels. It could download a whole email in, like, five minutes. If it was text-only. If it had a picture in it, you better pack a…

Refusing to give an answer on the hypothetical grounds that I won’t accept said answer is the ultimate bad faith argument, Mr. Strawman.

And here you are, continuing it.

You’re right that I do dislike Apple. Their products are just like everything else, except they cost more and they require (or required) non-standard parts or software to function just like everything else. I can charge my phone with whatever USB cable I have handy. Not so the iPhone. Back when I used projectors for…

As a long-time android and windows-phone user, I can’t get the hang of that “one button to rule them all” functionality. But that is probably more of a “me” thing.

I think you're right on basically all counts. I'd call what apple does "refinement" rather than "innovation," but that's more of a semantic issue than a real one.

What did Apple do before anyone else? Honest question.

US politicians always try to cast [their particular issue] as equal parts the mighty, unshakable bedrock of America and a tender flower that must be protected at all costs. If it’s the former, it’ll be fine. If it’s the latter, we’re going to have problems no matter what.

One day, they’ll even display incoming messages correctly, regardless of source!

My central thesis was that Apple does not innovate. Apple tries to refine and improve. And I don’t think any reasonable person would argue with that.