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"iPhone users get more sex than Android fans."

"Apple knew that the Iphone 4 was a lemon."

"What Apple really thinks about its customers."

I think Truthdig is an awesome web site, but "Apple Passes Microsoft to Become the World’s Biggest Tech Company" is just sloppy:

Apple fan-boys and -girls, rejoice. The iCorporation is now worth more than the dreaded Microsoft. But don’t get too excited: Bill Gates’ gang has a few ideas to get back in the game, and some bloggers claim that Google, whose Android is outselling the iPhone, “has leapfrogged” Apple in terms of innovation.

Whatever threats Google and Microsoft pose, Apple is now the king of the hill. It’s a fable worthy of David and Goliath, with a little Lazarus thrown in.

One Wikipedia search would reveal that Samsung brings in more revenue than Microsoft and Apple combined, as Hewlett-Packard has probably done every year since either company was founded. IBM definitely was bigger than both put together up until about 2008, now it's just almost as big as the two combined.

This is another example of the raving love the press shows for all things Apple, they've always pretended Apple was the best, now they pretend that they're the biggest.

I'll avoid the temptation to hard on the police being the puppets of our corporate overlords (in this case, Apple) to note:

Gizmodo said Monday that California police raided the home of an editor for the gadget blog who revealed details last week of a secret next-generation iPhone prototype.

Gizmodo published excerpts from a search warrant that gave police permission to seize property from editor Jason Chen's home that was "used as the means of committing a felony" or "tends to show that a felony has been committed."

The search warrant signed by a local judge specifically authorized the seizure of "printed documents, images and/or notations pertaining to the sale and/or purchase of the stolen iPhone prototype."

See, I'm wondering where theft was involved. As far as we know, this prototype iPhone was left at a bar. Did somebody at Apple tell a fib?

Gizmodo also published a letter from a lawyer for its owner, Gawker Media, objecting to the raid on Chen's home and arguing that a "search warrant may not be validly issued to confiscate the property of a journalist."

Yeah, that's just what I'm thinking.

"iPad Swapped if its Battery Fails, Apple Says."

Oh, I just thought of a simpler solution! User replaceable batteries. Maybe I can patent that before Apple thinks of it?

"Apple Looks to Patent Cutting Users Off From Cell Phone Features."

"Commodore 64 iPhone App Finished, But Denied Approval" from 1UP.com:

Good news, iPhone owners: Apparently developer Manomio -- the same folks behind the iPhone version of Flashback -- has been secretly at work on a Commodore 64 emulator application, and recently completed the project. But here's the bad news: Apple has rejected it from appearing on the App Store.

Interestingly, the Commodore 64 emulator was not rejected for legal reasons; as Touch Arcade reports (via Joystiq), Manomio had actually gotten the appropriate licenses to create and release a Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone. The problem, as it turns out, is that Apple's iPhone SDK Agreement stipulates that an application "may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means." Since an emulator necessarily works by launching roms, that means the Commodore 64 app is against Apple's rules.

I can't, for the life of me, understand why people flock to pay premium prices for Apple products and then use them the exact way Apple wants them to be used - as opposed to how they want to use it. When there's a conflict between those two ends, people waste their time "hacking" it or just lie down and take whatever Apples dishes out.

Screw that.

People need to either buy the product that functions the way they want or leave it on the damn shelf.

The Mac: not as secure as you might think.