@cyberguruji: I thought the same, but I think it's a dummy dressed up as the stig.

@taoprophet420: Just count yourself lucky and enjoy the old, viewable, itunes.

Gotta say, this is my most hated apple update of anything ever. Hate the colors, hate the new icon, have no use for ping (but whatever that one's just me), hate the layout, hate how it changed my list view to album view and screwed up the columns, hate how I have no more column dividers now so everything is hard to…

@hawkeye18: I actually laughed out loud. All hail the mighty Platypus, may it languish in obscurity forever.

@ChuckBlack: A calibrated science pole. Do not confuse with a sterile surgical 2x4...

@golferal: This was apple's argument when the iPhone launched, that web apps were good enough. They're not. Even with an un-gimped browser they wouldn't be good enough. Simply put there is no way to properly leverage the hardware (accelerometers, cameras, processor speed etc.) when you have to access it through a web…

@moonshadowkati: a date will be more than $20... unless you just take yourself, in which case why bother going, just skip to the good part...

@deep_fryed: don't be killin` nobody? cmon, we're looking for REAL solutions, not wacky ones...

@YourStarDoesNotMakeYouRight: first there were no apps at the launch of the iphone. Even the pre had some outside software when it launched, that adds a LOT to the desirability of the product (it's a huge reason why iphone is still #1, and also why android is catching up fast). That was also before smartphones as we…

@OCEntertainment: And any phone regardless of specs should be able to get a day and then some from a charge... I had no problems even under very heavy use on my 3gs which was crap compared to my iphone 4, which still isn't as good as my first gen for battery life... battery life is why apple doesn't allow FULL…

@Lupus_Yonderboy: decreasing their variety would also make it less of a nightmare to develop for which might spur someone giving a damn and making something compelling for BB... but probably not :0)

@Priper: Good point here imo. iPods are finally starting to be a "meh" item but thats for the exact same reason, everyone already has one (or hates apple and has something else they like to say is even better to all the people who don't care because they've got an iPod and like it).

@hawkeye18: Breathing is still a turn on for me years later...

IMO the real crux is touched on in the last paragraph here. Users area easy to amuse ("oh wow! apps!") but very hard to keep ("I can get better at site X"). Apps sure are taking a dent out of the old web, but if that dent stays it's because the apps are BETTER than the old web. Want people to stick around? don't…

@Tyrunn: Even if you protect correctly you're never protected on windows. There's always a new exploit and they can't patch it till they know it exists so the bad guys will always be 1 step ahead, just the way of the world.

@pz: You missed the part where the FTC made the google CEO on apple's board step down due to conflict because they're competitiors?

@NaraVara: They're compromising with each other on a plan of action, implementing it (crossing fingers here) should not be possible in the real world (it's just stupid and there's a LOT of companies with a LOT of money that would not like it to happen) so it's all pointless. But that's the RIAA for you, making bad…

@laughingisfree: you can stream NPR over the internet in better quality, check any decent mapping site, or many GPS recievers for traffic, pointless government alerts are updated faster online as well. Your cell phone likely can do all of this right now, and is mentioned above, all of that "important" stuff is on AM,…

@vein11: choice good, forcing crap people don't want into gadgets it doesn't belong in causing prices to go up because a lobby wants it that way is bad...

Yes, it's stupid to not be able to use the buttons in this way. And yes in this case apple's argument sounds pretty weak. However apple's user experience is so solid because of being a stickler to rules like this. It sucks when it end up "crippling" something great, however 99.9% of the time it prevent you from…