@JAlexoid: Mac hardware updates and Leopard especially was delayed by almost a year, as most of those teams were put onto iPhone development.

@Joel Johnson: Which issue are you referring to? There are a lot in this little thread :P.

@CrymeLord: Except the other places already have people. The '100% nomadic = no war' belief is predicated on the assumption that there is nobody else, thus no competition for resources.

My alarm bells go off whenever someone associates a desirable to some, but some socially unacceptable behavior (like polygamy), with things like disease, famine, oppression and war.

What made me think something was odd were her facial expressions accompanying the whiteboard messages. They were surprisingly compelling and entertaining for a supposed amateur production.

Enclosing a cell-phone (or anything with an antenna that you want to work) inside a metal case is stupendously moronic. And is the ultimate victory of form over function.

@Yarrr: Magnetic fields drop off with the square of the distance, so generally yes.

@Jose Ugarte: Sure, but that's still going to produce an RF signal.

@uu_ugene: Magnetic fields are static. A modulated magnetic field induces an electric field and emits an RF signal.

@FireZingr: What dravinis said.

Uh, there's no such thing as "magnetic waves." A "magnetic wave" is by definition an electromagnetic signal. That's very basic physics... you'd think that someone writing for a magazine called "Popular Science" would know this. Then again, this is Popular Science.

@datafox: I agree, Apple will be in trouble with Jobs is gone. But again, I'd argue that's because boards suck. Steve Jobs is a perfectionist with vision, but that's only part of his success and it's not even an extremely rare personality trait. Apple has others who could do the job well, given the same free rein,…

@rb1971 - E39M5 + E9 CSi: When you compare his compensation and severance to the amount in question, it's peanuts. They fired him because a PR consultant told the board that they'd be tarred and feathered in the media because of the sexual harassment accusation.

@tillman: Other way around, my friend. Boards should spend their time finding well qualified leadership, not meddling with organization and operations. Boards are overinflated committees, and act like them. The only thing they produce is the kind of corporate politics which leads to market successes like the Kin.

@hercules_100_98: HP survived Fiorina by replacing her with Hurd.

@rb1971 - E39M5 + E9 CSi: Firing him for falsifying expense reports is, in technical parlance, known as 'an excuse.'

@Tim Gee: Price gouging usually refers to short-term spikes in price immediately preceeding, during or following a civic emergency. For example, supermarkets raising the price of canned goods immediately before a hurricane strikes, and hotels raising the prices of rooms immediately after.

@phytonix: Perhaps, but for all its expense, it's still cheaper than normal phone service, and they are still losing money. This makes me believe that your expectations may not be realistic.

Wow... they brought in almost three quarters of a billion dollars last year, in revenue. Not bad at all for a service which only 6% pay for. They just need to get their operating expenses down.

@s5: Actually, I find as soon as anybody tries to apply it to anything, everybody's brain turns to mush.