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I’m looking at the front store page of Apple.com and at the top there is no Questions section. It says Welcome to the Apple Store, gives the store phone number, and says help, cart, and account. What Apple.com store page are you looking at?

Why do you have something in quotes for the title if, near as I can tell, that phrase was never used in the article?

Again, it’s actually pretty damned hard to break an iPhone 4, at least in my experience. My iPhone has hit concrete, gravel, wood flooring, walls, tile, and other hard materials in the two years I’ve had it, and all it has is a tiny knick out of one side from the gravel. I hardly ever see broken iPhones out there, compared to the number of iPhones I see, and I’m pretty sure it’s not because they are never dropped. And only the first iPhone was metal. The 3G and 3GS were plastic.

Hmmm, I just realized I’ve never heard his voice before. Not what I expected…

I downloaded a couple of the original Talk Show episodes from 2007 and Gruber sounds completely different from the second run. He’s energetic, his voice has inflection, and he even laughs. He almost sounds human. I dont ever remember that from the more recent episodes. If moving networks gets him energized again, which it seems to have done, I’m cool with it.

I will say I haven’t seen the One X yet, but it’s noticeably better than any other mobile phone screen I’ve seen. It’s not going to perform tricks and sing for you, but it provides a consistently, dependably superior experience in color and clarity.

It’s not about whether or not apps exist, it’s the quality of the apps and their design. ICS looks a lot better than its predecessors, at least the non-skinned version, but it’s still quite sterile in comparison. Skeumorphism aside, iOS apps just tend to look nicer.

Ah, thanks!

Thanks for the interview. Although the show isn’t so fresh in my mind at this point, I remember thinking they couldn’t have done much of anything else with the finale. It wasn’t as amazing as I would have liked, but it was completely appropriate. For a show that was all about people battling their demons over a supernatural backdrop, the final episode did the only thing it could have done. I’m generally more of a fan of the destination than the trip there, but Lost was definitely about the trip, not the destination.

Soooo…what is Cameo besides a website full of static?

Sure it is. Just do a search for The Talk Show. It’s the second option, after the 5by5 listing.

Ah, sorry, I wasn’t talking about when there were guests on the Talk Show, I was talking about when he was a guest on someone else’s show. For instance, when he was on On The Verge, he sounded much more energetic than on his podcast.

Having listened to part of the new format, Gruber sounds more energetic and responsive than I ever heard him with Benjamin. I always wondered why Gruber was much more animated in interviews and guest spots . I attributed it to him just having a Talk Show “persona.” Maybe not.

I like it as a fan of Apple products just because he has a very astute eye for the behavior of Apple and the their competitors. He has a rather blunt attitude that can at times be refreshing for its clarity or irritating for its rudeness, but either way, he doesn’t generally talk about stuff he doesn’t know, i.e. shoot his mouth off and end up being wrong a month later, which is something I appreciate. He’s usually snarky but usually right.

I graduated from university last year, and the ONLY reason I used Word over Pages was because Word has better foreign language support and I had to do a lot of writing in other languages. That is the only thing Word has going for it. I still have word, but at this point it hasn’t been used in nearly a year. For formatted writing, I stick with Pages. For freeflow writing, I stick with iA Writer.

Apple’s definition is that, when held at a standard distance from the user’s face, the user cannot see the pixels. That’s about it.
And really, it sickens you? It makes you want to vomit? More or less so than how sickened Santorum felt when he heard Kennedy’s speech on religion?

As I stated above, no one calls them abortion clinics. They are usually called family planning centers. Siri can’t find “abortion clinics” because they aren’t listed as “abortion clinics.” It can find “family planning centers,” though.

Apple was not censoring “abortion.” A user asked Siri to find places where a woman could get an abortion in the area. Siri didn’t come up with any results. However, it wasn’t because Siri was censoring. It was because places that offer abortions are usually called family planning centers or terms like that. When those sorts of terms were entered into Siri, it came back with a number of options. It depends on what terminology the locations are listed under. I don’t think it’s particularly outrageous that an app that is still in beta doesn’t associate a family planning center with an abortion provider yet.

Just because he/she may have gotten a couple things wrong doesn’t mean you have to be snide and patronizing in your reply.

Probably the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen (with the Nolan Batman movies being beyond the standard superhero genre). It’s not ground breaking, but it covers all the standard motions perfectly and cleanly, and the cast is top-notch.

Lower standard of living? Really? I’m an American, half my family is British so I’m well familiar with the UK, and I currently live in Spain. Trust me, the difference in quality of life, the standard of living and the cost of living between the three countries is about as wide as a hair. They have slightly different styles of living, for sure, but apart from certain bathrooms in Madrid, Spain is as much a first world country as the US. In many ways, such as public health care or public transit, it’s well ahead of the US. And they operate on the euro, which is valued more highly than the dollar. The cost of living here is not very different at all. Get over yourself and get a passport.

OH BLESS YOU. I spend way too many hours each week reading that damn magazine. This will hopefully make getting its content so much easier. Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

Yeah, but Sprint are complete scum when it comes to billing. You go over your 2 gig monthly limit that we never told you we were changing from unlimited to 2 gigs? We’ll charge you an additional $500 per month. What, you called in and we told you it was an error on our part and that you do have unlimited data when you actually still have the 2 gig plan we forced on you without telling? $500 bill next month too! Woo! Sprint are scum, absolute scum. Like AT&T…

I live in Spain. I’m on a pay-as-you-go iPhone 4. I average about 10 € a month for phone, texts, and data. Prices that aren’t completely pathetic and transparent money grabs exist in places besides the UK, Australia, Italy and Sweden.

Business isn’t about trust. Business is about who will get your crap done with the least amount of hassle. There’s maybe one or two large companies I would even slightly trust, and not many more smaller companies I would trust. I choose the companies that I think will try and feed me the least amount of bullshit, but I also recognize that there’s only a minuscule fraction of service providers out there that are really looking out for their customers. I’ve purchased too many crappy products from big businesses and I’ve worked for enough small businesses to think otherwise.

To be fair, some of the best looking gear on the market, aka Apple products, are inspired by natural shapes. Jony Ive said he designed the current iMac off the curves of a sunflower.

Just for the record, I’ve dropped my iPhone 4 on concrete, gravel, hard wood floors, stone tiled floors, and so on and it’s got one small mark on the front and a tiny nick out of one corner. When you sell a shitload and a half of the products, there’s gonna be some that break. However, my iPhone 4 has taken a ton of abuse and has had no real issues. That being said, I do appreciate that a lot of the manufacturing techniques used for Android phones feel less fragile. Instinctively, I’d feel less nervous about dropping a Nexus or One X than an iPhone. My iPhone has survived quite well, though.

Well, there are plenty of vinyl lovers who would argue that you’re not getting the complete version of the song on CD. And you don’t get the full quality of the original studio performance on either format, so if what makes you happy is whether you’re getting a full studio performance reproduction or not, then you’re never going to be happy unless you get the original masters.

I had been wondering about the quality of these files since iTunes started selling them. After reading the article yesterday, I figured what the heck, I’d give one of the albums a try. I bought the MFI version of Achtung Baby and compared it with 256 AAC files made from the remastered rerelease that came out last year. On a pair of decent (not great) Sennheiser headphones I could hear no difference. I like that the biggest music store in the world is at least thinking about the quality of the audio files they’re selling, but I couldn’t hear any marked improvement in one over the other.