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Beautiful. I'd give this 400 points if I could.

Corporate greed is always about blind outsourcing. You get the savings and you don't care how you get them. I have no doubt that Apple is capable of manufacturing their own devices. They chose not to. If workers were getting treated like crap, Apple is to blame. period.

I'm not saying don't make stuff in China, I'm saying we can be good employers in China and set a standard by treating employees like we would expect NA employees to be treated, with respect and dignity.

All Apple had to do to be different was to have their own factory in China (as opposed to contracting FoxConn), use the cheaper workforce, and treat the employees better. Blind outsourcing is the culprit here I believe.

Is there an android version?

So, can we put the oscillating universe theory to rest now?

My thoughts exactly, I have already thought of this theory many times, but I am too lazy to make the list and prioritize it and then try to figure out how to trick myself into thinking that non-important things are top priorities...

That doesn't work either, even if you get rid of your american citizenship, they still come after you for the past years.

I just drummed for a gig and the sound man walked up and set my monitor levels using an iPad standing beside me on the stage, no wires, no yelling, no pointing, no charades. It was unbelievable. For those who say that tablets are toys, not useful, not practical.... get ready.

Apple will enjoy for a while and Androids will crush in 2 years (unless Oracle wins it's lawsuit).

Whatever anyone wants to say negatively about this article, it's bang on. I just got my first android phone, it has 2.2 and the little microphone is my new best friend. I talk out todos, write emails, texts, search youtube, search everything, it blows my mind. The only thing it's not good at is uncommon names and places (like my name "Micah" and "Quebec"). Rock on Google.

"No, shut up. People don’t use that crap." hahaha, ahhh, I love it...

Thanks everybody, these were all very helpful answers. I purposefully omitted that I am from Canada (to get more answers), so it will be a little different, but this really helps me to ball park it. Thanks again!!

I never really felt safe on the Internet, but wow

exactly, the library is great and super quiet, but I was there today and the internet was horrendous...

I interested in this one, but I'm just not sure if it has features like fuzzy text search, do you know if it has all the google-like features I listed in the description?

That sounds really interesting! I'd be interested in the link if you find it. I need my stuff to run behind the firewall, in the going out to wikipedia, will that compromise the privacy of the searches?

No, I love my kids and they don't cloud my judgement. I mean kids work well with routines and what is wrong with going to work at the same time every day and coming home at the same time?

Clearly, he does not have any kids...

Email had a metaphor, your mailbox.

Wave has no metaphor, it is complete non-sense to my mother. Neat idea, totally useless in reality. What worked (real-time collaboration) should be (has been?) ported to gmail and google docs, period.

I love Google products and I didn't shed any tears when they shut down wave...

I love it when funny people help not funny people be funny. Gates should have hired Seinfeild a long time ago...

I need adblocker plus!!

I think the google + youtube worked out because they let the community continue unhampered. Even today you can get a youtube account without a google account. That is smart.... We can't pretend to know google's intentions with some aquisitions though, ie measure map getting blended into google analytics.

Fun police......one time I was at an amusement park and the laser tag employees would kick you out if you ran.....imagine teenagers walking after each other with laser guns. It was pretty much the most ridiculous thing ever.

Very insightful view into the mind of an essay marker. I've always loathed the subjectiveness of English courses, that's why I took computer science :)

I agree with the author, not everyone is cut out for English classes, but I think an alternative to these "trying help you an write essay" classes should be some kind of "just read a book and enjoy it" class. It would be a start anyway. In school, any hope of loving English literature is usually destroyed by some kind of forced book dissection or compare and contrast garbage.

Pretty much bang on, I don't swear too much, but replace that with banging my head off the wall and the pie chart is bang on.