Anyone else think a list of five words should be composed of five words, not four words and two punctuation marks? It's like an all-beef burger that's 80% beef, 20% other.

@artum: He claimed you could breathe it, not enjoy it.

@lazaruspryor: 1) You can't change your point then say "that's just it." 2) I'm sure Foxconn will gladly claim the parts were stolen if selling them separately means they violated their contract with Apple.

Perfect until we develop replicator technology, at which point we will switch over to latinum.

@AnthonyG123: Try carrying around all your money as coins.

@SkipErnst: They used it in the final steps, but it's not a good point for the "if we did is all over again" argument. If we did it all over again, we rhodium or palladium might have been discovered earlier.

@lazaruspryor: It's a crime if they were stolen from Foxconn or sold without authorization by folks within Foxconn.

@golferal: Guess I should have used sarcasm tags.

@golferal: Or perhaps I was directing my comment at the author, as in "you, the author, know you, the author, just helped..." That's weird, right?

@golferal: RMFC. I didn't say they did.

@MifuneT: Pfft. Apple releases hardware upgrades on an annual cycle. It's impossible to upgrade to a new iPhone every nine months, let alone be compelled to do so. But since you brought it up, DROID and DROID 2 were released nine months apart.

@BrandonSH: Always wear pants.

@BrandonSH: Always wear pants.

You know you just helped this guy incriminate himself, right? If the parts are coming from Foxconn, then they are stolen. Foxconn is a contract manufacturer, i.e., they are contracted to use these parts to make iPhones, not to sell separately. If the parts are not coming from Foxconn, then they are counterfeit,…

My fave notebook is a Fujitsu Lifebook T900 Tablet PC because I don't believe handwritten notes and digital notes are separate things.

Flew out of town to meet my cousin's daughter this week for the first time. Guess which proved more important for that event: smartphone or PC.

@maude_flanders: "Surely they'll be separated, for their own good." — No, their brains are networked. We don't even understand how that works, let alone figure out a way to safely "unnetwork" them.

Two Words: Vance Astro.

This was an insightful and well-written article. I can see why the editors would often discuss the idea of promoting you.

Sounds like an old Jedi mind trick to me.