I wonder if RIM and Google would hire me to go to Ivy League schools and steal their phones, leaving the iPhones untouched, as some kind of viral marketing campaign?

I don't recall ever reading anything about sharks being attracted to light. I think the real danger here is being attacked by giant squids; those things LOVE to eat the shiny!

I feel like this is a form of animal cruelty. It would be like drawing a 3d image of the latest iPhone on the floor of Gizmodo headquarters, and then watching all their writers spend endless hours in the impossible task of trying to pick it up. Poor hungry dragon...

The F-35 is a lot like Siri: it would be really awesome if only it actually worked!

Of Apple-centric media...its all tablets, not just the iPad. Honestly, this doesn't bother me at all. I'm trusting engineers (not pilots) to get me safely from one location to another; they design the planes and program the autopilots. As long as they guys at ATC aren't allowed to slack off on tables I am fine with it.

Wow, are YOU really so dense you don't understand a little tongue in cheek when its presented to you? That's a rhetorical question, since the answer is obvious.

Does that mean the next time I loose big on the roulette table I can refuse to pay the Casino due to a physics "glitch"?

Sure, there's a sense of satisfaction in Apple getting a taste of their own medicine. More importantly, if smartphone/tablet manufacturers realize that trying to sue their way into market dominance is not an effective strategy; then competition is preserved and we as consumers win out with better pricing and more…

As long as they never try and claim to be Journalists, I am fine with it. They day I see a Giz writer try to pass themselves off as a Journalist, I will beat them to death with a massive printed out tome of all their various published misspellings and grammar errors.

Give laptop manufacturers SOME credit; I am sure they can handle making an Ultra-book with a screen that flips back or swivels around to put the device into a Tablet mode. I don't see why you assume they wouldn't

Exactly what I was thinking; this was a very America-centric post. I doubt anyone in New York considers 38th street a reference to the demilitarized zone.

Yeah, that's a good point, but that also illustrates why griping about the requisite network connection is a little unreasonable. Now, even though Apple is probably throwing considerable computing power at the problem of processing audio files as natural language instructions; there's no way they are putting the…

Part of me wanted to sit back and relax with a certain sense of schadenfreude at this article: an Apple fanboy who was brought to the startling realization that the magic black box he bought wasn't as magic as advertised. But really, he shouldn't be that surprised: natural language processing is something of a holy…

No, I stand by my statement that it wasn't worth the price. When I had to develop an iOS app, my cost of entry was as follows: $100 for the developer program, $700 for the mac mini, and an estimated 3 hours of my time ($60/hr) to figure out Macs provisioning profile; so that's a buy in cost of almost $1,000 out the…

Well, maybe I misunderstood some of your arguments. I don't know why you are equating Apple user-types with being open-minded and people who don't like Apple as a company as being hateful and/or ignorant of Apple.

Sorry, I actually replied to the wrong post. I tried to delete when I realized I made a mistake, but I guess Gizmodo didn't like that. At any rate, I agree with everything you posted.

Wow, this is actually one of the most convoluted responses I have ever seen. You claim you would never train openness and flexibility for the closed walled garden approach, but then say that the closed system of Apple has never caused you any problems. You make some kind of argument about how with Apple you are…

As part of the anti-Apple crowd, I have to say you do have a valid point here. If Apple was forcing users to update software and erasing roots I would be pointing my finger and saying "look at Apple's draconian methods to maintain their walled garden! How can Apple's user's stand for this?!" It's definitely a point…

so an iPad is a$700 photo viewer? Yeah, that's really productive. You show me that $200,000 radiology program being WRITTEN on an iPad and I will be convinced that its a productivity tool.

so an iPad is a$700 photo viewer? Yeah, that's really productive. You show me that $200,000 radiology program being WRITTEN on an iPad and I will be convinced that its a productivity tool.