@phenoum It's no use making baseless statements. If Apple is #1 in customer satisfaction w.r.t. some metric, that's because it scored highest when categorically compared to other manufacturers, not because there was a difference in support types.

Those three things you listed – they're very common problems with all computers, and I've personally seen much more of it on computers of companies other than Apple. I even know of 8- and 9-year-old Powerbooks. It all just goes to show that we all have our stories about something being great or terrible. An anecdote isn't worth much, and shouldn't convince you of much. ;)

Yeah, it makes you wonder a little. Apple certainly brags about the reliability of their machines more than HP or Dell do, but I guess the lives of computers is ultimately limited by their most sensitive components, hard drives. No amount of money will fix that, sadly.

So I guess we can conclude that Apple reliability isn't anything to brag about, if this data is reliable. Still, there's always the support to consider...

Before you break out your wallet, keep in mind that both the Public Radio Tuner and the NPR News apps do both live streaming and "on demand" playback of previous programs, and both are free.

@SirMasterboy Do yourself a favor: don't accuse others of lying and then tell 'em yourself. For an iPhone, the cost of unlimited data ($30/mo), unlimited texting ($20/mo), and the cheapest voice plan ($40/mo, 450 min) is at least $90 a month, or $1080 a year before tax. Hence, with the phone at $200 and the activation fee at $36 (again, not including any tax, where applicable), that becomes just over $2400 for two years.

@CtrlBurn Dude, 5 is not a vector. No need to pull a scalar triple product here.

I think the only words for this are, "OH MY GODS".

@Jim @regionto For goodness's sake, get over yourselves.

You have to love how this mouse has been known about for 1.5 hours and – with no actual hands-on in sight – people are already praising it as the best thing since sliced bread or bashing it as the worst thing since this recession. Honestly, guys, it doesn't speak to your credibility.

But who even needs viruses when you have OS X (see: guest account bug)?

Phil Schiller is being a businessman, nothing more. That, or he's as much of a braggart as Steve Jobs.

Pretty she may be, but she's no good at her job. She looks totally unconvinced of the product's greatness. (Not that I am.)