[La Lydia]

I love my Big Tent of Apple. It is large, comfortable, sleek, well furnished, my toys are colorful and fun — and it has never collapsed on me.

[canuck_conservative]

Best comment following the article:

StalePancake:

“I can only congratulate Apple. How a company can charge 36.6% gross margin for the same hardware every other provider sells at razor thin margins is a testament to Apple’s ability to cloud the judgment of 5.37% of the market.

I don’t hate Apple. I envy their boldness to rob you in broad daylight and smile at you while doing it. But even better, I’m amazed that those being robbed are happy about the matter and can’t wait to be robbed some more.

What’s not to love about that?”

[RobRoy]

I have an extremely wealthy acquaintence that switched from iTunes to Limewire, not becuase of the cost, but because of convenience. They had a problem getting some of their iTunes songs to play on their Apple TV systems in their homes and Yachts due to obscure “protection” issues. With limewire stuff you use it as you see fit, kinda like records and tapes were.

[Anastas]

I agree, The reason you don’t want to leave is because everything works well together and it doesn’t crash. If that’s a trap, I’m fine living in it.

[pyx]

I love my Big Tent of Apple. It is large, comfortable, sleek, well furnished, my toys are colorful and fun — and it has never collapsed on me.

I have three questions for you regarding the iPhone made by Apple.

1.) How do you run more than one application at the same time on an Apple iPhone ?

2.) Why do you believe the TECHNICAL MERITS of the Apple iPhone are surperior to say, the Motorola Droid ? An honest comparison of the Apple iPhone using the Samsung S5PC100 ARM Cortex-A8 processor VERSUS the Motorola Droid using the TI OMAP 3430 Arm Cortex A8 @ 550 mHz processor would seem to indicate the TI OMAP 3430 Arm Cortex A8 is clearly superior. If you disagree, please state why.

3.) Please tell me what facts you have to support the OPERATING SYSTEM being used by Apple iPhone as being superior to (we'll use the same example), the OPERATING SYSTEM of the Motorola Droid ?

I'm not trying to start a fight with anyone, the above are just straight forward questions that must be addressed for others to be drawn into the Apple Big Tent.

[rwfromkansas]

I like Apple, but I do detest their tight control on things.

It also looks like they finally have found a way to ban jailbreaking of the phone as well.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/173629/new_iphone_3gs_may_be_jailbreakproof.html

With that being the case, I am much more likely to get a Verizon Droid next summer instead of an iPhone like I have been wanting so long. Android is much more open than the iPhone and can do more. The reviews so far are very positive. While the iPhone is cool for its fun games etc. on it, I can get that with an iPod touch. The only part missing would be the phone part or the always-on data, which again....I could get with the Droid on a network that actually works when I go back home in Kansas.

AT&T doesn’t work in Kansas virtually ANYWHERE, only KC and to some degree Wichita.

[BunnySlippers]

And they are all compatible. That’s a huge plus in my book. I don’t want to have to go out and buy adapters and the like.

I’m happy.