@mattv888: No! I refuse to believe that the kind of people who over-clock their phones don't use standard MotoBlur widgets!

@TheCrudMan: Why would you want to hand in a C paper?

@Cliff_Dangers: Unless you're somewhere where most people own Macs, like a college campus. Or New York.

I think "Apps that are designed for use as illegal gambling aids will be rejected" may be a reference to internet gambling. It's illegal in the US after all, so they'll reject apps that "aid" you in connecting to (illegal) internet gambling sites. I don't think they're worried about folks taking their Macbooks to the…

@coonsrc: I know! Look at their FaceTime page; it's just a fucking sea of Caucasian faces: [www.apple.com]

@Passa: Yup. We saw the same thing happen with the 13" MBP earlier this year!

@Preyfar: You can get the App Store for Snow Leopard in 90 days; you don't have to upgrade to Lion...

@geolemon: I understand the theoretical basis of what you're saying, but I really don't think it's going to hold. Millions of customers are happy with their Verizon Droids. Some of them will surely switch to the Verizon iPhone when it becomes available, but I really doubt that the majority of them will. Once you've…

@RecipeForHate: We. Have. Lots. Of. People.

@demonic_pascal: It may stunt the growth of WP7,which is an infant OS, and it may kill off the consumer market for RIM (who produces a clearly outdates OS), but it won't do too much damage to Android. You underestimate just how many people are familiar and satisfied with their Droids. Apple waited too long.

@geolemon: What you're saying was absolutely true a year or two ago. People who were smartphone-savvy held their noses and switched to AT&T for the iPhone while everyone else contented themselves with Blackberries (which were clearly inferior to the iPhone), usually on Verizon. A cult did develop around the Blackberry…

@JacK Aisher: What percentage of worldwide iPhone sales are in Europe and the UK? What percent are in the US? Exactly.

@GitEm$teveDave: It's not just pariedolia. I could tell more or less what was being said even before reading the text.

@Nate Buchar: Why we never get the line piece when we need it: "Thou art a cruel and angry god!"

@pianopraze: thank you for finally showing us how to draw scientific conclusions. for too long, people have been saying that it's necessary to base conclusions on empirical evidence gathered from rigorous experimental procedures, but you know a better way: just come to the conclusion that blames big pharmaceutical…

@talkingstove: The point was that he did it and still maintained his anonymity.

@Peter Shultz: Derrida? These ideas are from the language and culture school, from very early in the history of American anthropology. They're around 80 years old! But if the general public does not know this, what harm is there in exploring the literature?

@carve: Objective reality (if such a thing even exists) is insignificant if all perception of reality is constrained by language and culture. Everything may be relative, such that each individual (or at least, each "culture") is experiencing fundamentally different realities.

@Psychonaut: Your negativity interferes with my pessimism: While languages certainly influence (and/or constrain) our perception of reality, it's controversial as to whether each language/culture has a certain personality. It's true to a degree, but there are other aspects of culture and society that play a much…

@sarindipity: Really? Whorf is famous for "strong linguistic relativity," the idea that language shapes one's perception of reality. If one's language does not contain a certain concept, it is impossible for someone who speaks (only) that language to understand that concept. They can approximate it but they can't…