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I agree 100% but there is, sadly, the issue of credibility on Wall Street. The Google boys let Eric Schmidt have the CEO title for a while. Maybe Facebook should hand Sheryl Sandberg the top title for a while.

I cannot count the number of reviews of Android products by Apple oriented writers that have singled out the head phone jack on the bottom as a flaw. Now what will they say?

Complete series on an antiquated but archival format coming July 31. 110 episodes in all. Worth it?

Some actual data to assess. By several measures, Instagram no more expensive than 30-odd other similar acquisitions, some of which worked out great (Paypal, YouTube, Mint.com), others not so much (cough -- Broadcast.com -- cough).

I strongly second Khoi's call for a re-imagining of the current broken multi-user/family/Apple ID iOS situation. The tablet computer is handed around, left lying around in the house, picked up by whoever gets their hands on it first in our house. It needs some kind of Apple-y multi-user settings.

Be sure to read the rewards for pledges

Best-selling children's book author of all-time, or there abouts, says her next book will be aimed at adults. More details to come.

I don't get how the story remotely supports the headline. Nothing in Tesla's long-winded statement says the bricking story is not true.

It's using 4.0 APIs, according to Matt Seigler's story and interview with Google SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai:

"Back to the bad news: some of the more advanced features of Chrome for Android require APIs found only in Ice Cream Sandwich, so the team made the call to make it only available for Android 4.0 and beyond. Again, this means only 1% of current Android users out there can actually get and use the browser right now." - http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-th...

You most certainly can buy a pay-as-you-go SIM in the US. See http://amzn.to/wKySJq for example. The issue is complicated here however by the CDMA/GSM split, incompatible signal bands used by different carriers and not-truly-unlocked unlocked phones. Something like a million people in the US bought full-priced, unlocked iPhones to use on the lower cost T-Mobile netowkr but they don't get 3G bands. See http://blog.t-mobile.com/2011/09/26/about-the-iphone-a-lette...

I particularly like #3: Freak Out!

Thanks for pointing out the mixed up screen shot. Just fixed that. I don't think the flaws here are all that subtle and this is a huge waste of time for me at least three or four times a day. Drawing attention and encouraging discussion of said flaws hopefully gets the attention of the powers-that=be to fix them.

Seems to rely on IP telephony service to make calls over wifi. Uses Sprint's cell network when wifi not available.

The demographics of people who spend the most on iTunes don't match the teenagers who were trading free files. Jobs persuaded record labels to offer their songs for sale to people who always pay for content (ie re-buying millions of Beatles tracks when they finally arrived on iTunes last year).

Please at least read the link. The 2001 movie still is one of numerous examples cited in the Samsung filing and the "patent" in question is a relatively general and vague "design patent."

Glad they are running the poll. But the set up where you have to choose 10 books out of 100 and there is long, long scrolling list seems biased in favor of the folks at the top of the alphabetically-ordered list.

I actually did this. I was using an iPad for blogging on the go but got sick of the virtual keyboard and cursor placement hijinks. The Chromebook's build quality is pretty darn nice. Good keyboard and screen, battery lasts forever, built-in 3G Verizon connection -- and I have not had any track pad problems that some complain about. You can always wait 6 months and get something better but today's Chromebook is pretty sweet hardware-wise.

Then there's the OS. The one huge failing in my mind is the lack of offline capability. No Internet = useless brick. That is supposedly coming this summer.

But what software/activities are you planning to use? I can give more detailed thoughts. It's great for light writing, blogging, web browsing etc. Easy to post photos via the SD card slot though less great for photo editing.

Please go read the links. This is not about the sales happening in countries outside of the US. This is about the billions of dollars inprofits Apple, Microsoft, Google and others would otherwise be making on their US sales being shifted around to low-tax havens using clever internal licensing agreements. For example, see http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

Companies already get to reduce their US tax by the amount of tax they paid a foreign government. The issue here is that that they've moved the profits to places where little or no taxes are paid at all. This is not about double taxation.

1. They get credit for all the taxes they paid in other countries. They are essentially supposed to pay the difference between the US rate and the various foreign rates.

2. If you read some of the links, you'll discover that they are minimizing the taxes they pay on US revenue -- sales made right here at your corner Apple store -- by use of clever licensing agreements with their own foreign subsidiaries. Look at the interactive graphic on the Bloomberg story about Google, for example http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

That is not correct. Did you actually read any of the links above? Apple, Google, Microsoft and others shift billions of dollars a year in profits ON SALES IN THE UNITED STATES out of the US and to low tax or no tax countries using clever internal sales agreements with their own subsidiaries over intellectual property licensing. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

Transfer pricing of intellectual property is at the core of this. Read the Bloomberg article and check out the interactive graphic. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

here's another good explanation http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

Again, this is not because of ordinary sales outside of the US. This is a purposeful effort to reduce the amount owed in US taxes on activity in the US (and other "high" tax countries).

This is not about profits made overseas, say like selling iPhones in China This is the use of complex strategies, like creating a shell company in the Isle of man that "owns" intellectual property and "licenses" it to the US subsidiary for a fee that just happens to equal most of the profits on US sales. The profits go to the tax haven and never come back.

Of course, there's actually a much deeper and more important connection. The huge cash hoards of Apple, Google, Microsoft and other big multinational corporations are a direct outgrowth of clever tax strategies they use to shift profits to low-tax countries and avoid US taxes. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-microsoft-tax-i...

Corporate tax payments as a percentage of total tax revenues are low and historically low compared to the size of the economy. http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2011/0209/Corporat...

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...

Are publishers finally start to "get it" on ebooks and digital life? A big British publishing house is building an e-community around scifi and simultaneously releasing thousands of out-of-print classics as ebooks in multiple formats from many of the great authors (like Robert Silverberg, Arthur C, Clarke, L. Sprague de Camp, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick and many more). Seems smart.

Arguable. You can move any photo from the 1,000 picture photostream into an album on your iPad or iPhone. Then the albums are all backed up to the iCloud's separate backup service.

Rotates perfectly on my nexus s with 2.3.4

Post from last year worth thinking about again in light of 7th circuit court decision that allowed firing of a guy for violating his employer's acceptable use policy even though he was doing it on his own time.