Why is it so hard to believe that some writers like Apple products for entirely personal reasons? Millions of other people do.

Cloud DVR storage? Not a good idea for those of us on limited bandwidth, i.e., almost all consumers. I can see the ongoing uploads sucking up so much of the DSL that I can't use it for anything else while the show is recording.

At least once, on any movie I consider worth buying.

I was good at math, right up until they introduced differential equations, which is calculus done backwards where you have no fixed algorithms to solve with and your problems have an infinite number of solutions. For a logical, well-ordered brain, it was just too much.

For Christ's sake, so what? Anybody who's dumb enough to leave a smartphone in their butt pocket deserves what they get.

Here we see somebody posting nasty replies on an article which ADMITS it doesn't know what the chip really does.

I feel the same way about a secure, well-stocked App Store. Apple has had one since the beginning, while Google Play only just appeared and is still way behind in numbers of apps.

One difference is, you can update a two-year-old iPhone 4 to iOS 6, while most other phones that old will never be upgraded to Android 4.

Terry Gilliam nods and grimaces.

Why would you spend $30 to attach an adapter to an old cable, when you can probably spend that much or less on a new cable? A USB-to-Lightning cable costs only $20, and that's only because Apple is the only one making them right now.

I'm still of the opinion that headphones are ALWAYS a poor way to experience music. Complex layered harmonic sounds should be appreciated in three dimensional spaces by a decent pair of stereo speakers, not drilled directly into your ear canal to the exclusion of every other sound in the room.

Let's turn that around: what would have really impressed you? The commercials I see for other phones these days really just advertise new software — instant photo sharing with your friends! voice-controlled app launching! turn-by-turn directions! — which are completely hardware-independent.

What do you consider "standard" in a phone, anyway? Last I checked, a "standard" phone just needed a numeric keypad, an on/off button, a mic, and a speaker.

People steal city trash cans? Seriously?

You forgot a third possibility: throwing all their non-recyclable trash into the recycling bins.

Security, probably. If you want it that badly, though, buy a phone that supports it so Apple knows it's important to you.

"By the bagful"? How many dockable accessories do you actually own?

"I know kung fu."

Is "definitive" the new "objective"?

An intriguing argument. The real question is, what precedents are there in CHINESE law for this sort of thing?