From what I just read, depending on the contract between record label and artist, the artist could get somewhere from roughly 8c - 11c per 99c iTunes download. That seems about in line with the way it's been in the past - a CD sale could net a top flight artist like U2 maybe 2 dollars, a lesser known artist may…

Tim, by all reports, is one hell of a businessman, but I don't know much about his creative side... I guess Phil Schiller is stepping in as the challenger of creative ideas now? I know he's a marketing guru, but if not him, who herds the creative kitties now? Jon Ive?

Dude, the Black Plague wiped out almost 25% of EARTH's population.

I have a 4S and love it. I know people with the GS2 and they love it. We can get into all this Fanboy vs. Fandroid stuff for days..but essentially it comes down to which one strikes your fancy. You're probably slightly on your own (more so than Apple) when it comes to media content with Android, and of course Apple…

Yeah, I've seen the same thing with my 4S. Reading through the comments it seems the culprit is iOS5. Leaving my phone in my car during at typical 8 hour work day and I see an almost 10% drop in battery with no apps running in the background. I suppose that means the standby time is roughly half of what it should…

Yes, I was about to post the same thing. The concept of Citizen Journalism is fine, but I think there should be some sort of editorial backstop as well.

Yeah, I love this. Maybe not a stand alone device but something to work in concert with your Kindle or iPad. If you're headed to the park or the beach, just flick (something like what I saw on Avatar?) whatever you're reading on your Kindle over to your Kindle Sheet. There, I just named it.

If you give a phone some mango, don't come back to MS bitching that it tried to hump your ear.

With iPad and Galaxy Tab on the market...I wonder how retailers agreed to take on even half that amount of Xooms.

It's like, about elephants..and shit.

Holy shit, I had no idea this was actually a Coldplay vid until I just Googled it! WUT WUT WUT?!?!?!?

Well, the point of the story is wasteful spending. I'm not sure that suggesting we wastefully spend is spouting a particular political view..in fact, it's completely apolitical. Are you suggesting that the government is a great steward of our tax money?

For the hell of it he should include in his Rider a bottle of Cristal and and a box of magnum condoms.

@Tylerbrainerd

We could just cut $500,000,000,000 of annual wasteful spending from Medicare/Defense and not have to worry about this?

Apple innovates, they mostly define what tech markets are going to be (smartphone, tablet, mp3, ultra books, take your pick), and almost all others, including Android, are purely reactionary in their methods. I exempt WinMo7, at least it's a fresh take on a mobile OS.

If I allow you to come in and see what I have under development, don't come back and bitch that I beat you to market with that idea.

Good for Apple. They changed the entire dynamic of the smart phone...they led the way, and of course some of their ideas should be theirs exclusively.

I suppose somebody has to post this...

So yeah, parents can be silly when it comes to vaccines...but anthrax??? Nope, not my kid, not happening.