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Oh, c'mon. How can you not love helpful interface elements like this?

That assumes that the YouTube app would get upgraded. Ever. I'm probably forgetting a tweak or two, but I think it's pretty much the only unchanged app from iOS 1.0.

The app hasn't been around long enough to see how it handles new episodes, but apparently it lists episodes — with the little iCloud download arrow — it hasn't loaded. Ideally, it would continue to update the list even if it doesn't autodownload episodes.

USB wouldn't, and won't, do what the 30-pin connector does. Remember, back in the dark days when it was designed, USB was at version 1.1, good for 21 Mb/sec; Firewire was at 400. That was important because in those days 5 GB was a lot of data to push. The early iPods supported both USB and Firewire.

Wait a sec. Aren't we trying to get carbon out of the atmosphere? What better way than by sequestering it in furniture?

The last time I was in DC, it took me slightly longer to get to Fredericksburg than it took the Union infantry. Not cavalry, infantry.

The main reason that Apple started retail stores is that the presentation of Apple products in the big chains of the day — CompUSA, Circuit City, Computer City, Best Buy, etc. — was miserable. The machines were off in the corner, probably with a password-locked screen saver and no Internet connection, and if you asked

Falling stock price != failing company. Other than the people who bought into the IPO, none of those stock transactions makes or loses Facebook any money. Zuck still has a controlling stake in the company, so there's no fear of a shareholder revolt. So if the stock keeps falling, who cares?

Should Apple be called "Pomme" in French-speaking countries?

"Guys don't weear skinny jeans" — oh, how I miss the lamb-white innocent days when I, too, could still believe that.

Orangutans aren't monkeys. #peeve

It's pretty notable to Tony Nicklinson, I think.

Decoy. The thief takes this and stops looking around, never discovering that the real passwords are scrawled in the margins of "The Catcher in the Rye" or "Atlas Shrugged."

It's both. "Fruit" is a botanical term referring to the part of a plant that delivers its seeds. "Vegetable" is a culinary term referring to a plant part usually prepared in savory rather than sweet dishes. The terms aren't mutually exclusive.

Do you wait around corners waiting to pounce on people who refer to a blanket of snow, a carpet of leaves, or a wall of sound?

If they're willing to not only give up but declassify a better-than-Hubble telescope, just imagine what they've got that they're still using and not talking about.

And 3-D! And HDR!

Unfortunately, they can't be bothered with less-awesome engineering projects, like a modern sewer system. If it doesn't go on a post card, they don't give a shit (ahem) about it.

Bandit was the chase car/diversion. You'd be following the Snowman.