"I find it a little silly to say that Apple "designed" a chip, when they took an already-done SoC, chose a graphics processor for it, connected it all together, and put their name on it."

"Actually repackaged from Cortex, made by Samsung"

"iPads are very popular, so when the suicides happened, journalists googled foxconn and found they make iPads. It was perfectly logical to "target" Apple this way as it's a company everyone knows."

Again, from the horse's mouth: "Apple's says it's still tweaking a lot of the language and controls around Gatekeeper, so expect the text in the screenshot above to be different when Mountain Lion ships..."

You don't need to torrent OS X to create a recovery disk. Apple gives you a way to do it legally, for free:

Several of the Apple articles the past two days have been SEO/clickbait. For example, the one where their worst writer (Casey Chan) tries to pose Apple's security features as Apple trying to control the user's computer.

Well, you have two choices. You can keep pretending you have any clue what you're talking about, or you can educate yourself on what Apple is actually doing.

You know, whenever you download something from the internet with chrome, the first thing it will say is "Unknown files from the internet may harm your computer. Are you sure you want to keep it?" Clearly Google is also trying to stamp out competition. That's the only explanation.

"And secondly UI stuff is generally ironed out quite early on in the process. If you're still fussing around over the wording of stuff by the time you're rolling out developer previews then your design team has been doing something wrong."

Unbelievable that Apple is trying to keep their OS secure?

"Presumably joining the App Store means that developers earn much less money per download?"

"For instance you reply with "You seem to be the confused one. This is a new release"Then say later "I didn't say it wasn't a new version of OS X" YES YOU DID! you said verbatim, "this is a new release"."

"It may just be me, but the fact it takes me 9 finger swipes to get to the last desktop, as opposed to a maximum of 3 keypresses to traverse 16 different spaces really is an issue!"

"to Intuit, the entire Mac platform is an afterthought."

"As a stockholder from way back when you guys were in deep yogurt..."

That guess sounds about right.

"It's certainly not universal, but it is certainly not uncommon."

What exactly are you trying to contradict? I didn't say it wasn't a new version of OS X. I said it was. I also said you don't need to download it. You can choose to not download it. I don't know if anyone told you this, but U.S. law doesn't stipulate that you hand over money to Apple every time they release a new…

Pretty much.

But the device you're describing is either an underpowered laptop or a very overpriced tablet. If you're the kind of person that doesn't need your laptop for much more than surfing the web or watching movies, then a tablet is great, since you don't need a physical keyboard for any of that. Nor would you need desktop…