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Also, my most embarrassing picture is one of me and my cousin, of the opposite gender, taking a bath together. We were only two, but to this day it is still an awkward photo.
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I would also like to see a follow up article. I'm sure I could install it myself, but it would be nice to see some more reviews of items like this on engadget.
Oops. It just occurred to me that you might be referring to the second set from ifoAppleStore. Those are pretty bad.
I'm fairly certain that these pictures are real pictures. They may not be your cup of tea, but they use conventional technology (like selective focus or lens distortion) to highlight specific things in some of the pictures, or to give a better sense of scale, but that doesn't detract from what is a fairly good shoot of the store.
Is it just me, or does this guy have a serious case of heavy breathing? It sounded like he was winded just talking about the product.
Depends on what you mean by "real" game. I'm fairly certain there are a million games that can easily be played without tactile feedback.
Hmm. I didn't think I implied anything differently then that. If so, I didn't mean to. I pointed out that the iTunes music is DRM free, but the movies aren't. Sounds similar to what your saying. Am I misunderstanding what you're trying to say?
Sorry, I meant to say "the day after they air" not "the day they air". Also, I left out an "o" on that first two in the last sentence. I'm sure there are other mistakes, but those stood out to me as glaring when I went to make sure it posted in the right place.
Okay, first, iTunes prices go as low as $.69 cents a track. Second, the DRM free point is moot, as iTunes music has been DRM free for almost a year now. Besides, t's the record companies that set pricing in the iTunes store (and the Amazon store), not Apple. And you are more then welcome to put any of that music on any device you want.

Next, comparing a streaming rental/subscription service to a purchasing service like you have with iTunes and Netflix (or the Zune Pass, as I think you were implying by the $15 a month thing) is like comparing apples and oranges (no pun intended). In one case, you're paying to borrow or view a copy. When you're purchasing a movie or TV show through iTunes or Amazon Unbox, you own the media. Yes, you are locked in to devices that support the DRM, but again, that's a studio thing. Unless the studios are willing to realize that most people will legitimately purchase movies if they are made available without DRM, digital movies are going to be locked. That's how it worked with music.

Perhaps more importantly then the own/rent model argument, is the matter of release dates. I can get my TV shows the day they air from iTunes. If I want to watch the same episodes on Netflix, I need to wait till the whole series has already aired and the season box set is released on DVD. Then I have to hope that 1) I reserved it soon enough that I'm towards the top of their list/queue of people who reserved it 2) I'm the only person who watches the show so nobody else requested it, or 3) that it's one of the handful of recent shows they offer in the instant streaming category. Same goes for movies. iTunes gets them (most often) day and date with the big box retailers. Netflix may get them the same month for instant streaming, or I get to play the waiting game with ordering. Now, I'm a big proponent of Netflix. I think it's great for series that I hear about mid-season and don't really want to play the catch up game with, or movies that I'm uncertain about buying. It's a great, cheap way to screen lots of content for a low price, but for shows I regularly follow, I don't want to wait till the whole seasons aired to see it. I can avoid spoilers for 24 hours. I don't feeling like doing so for 9 months.

You can argue that Apple's pricing is to high, but you can't do so in comparing it to similar services.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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