I find it a bit unfair that the only option for "No" basically implies that the person choosing that answer has drunk the Kool-Aid.
The fact is that the Onion's satire has not come to pass, any more than a national panel of scientists have declared that "Babies are Stupid."
Some people will always have bad things to say about Apple, while others will have glorious praise for them, and the majority of people not reading this blog will not give a shit one way or another.
Engadget: if you're going to post an asinine poll, at least make the possible responses fair. Jesus.

There's supposedly a standard-height Samsung 500GB 2.5" drive coming out next month. It was shown at CES in January.

Thanks for extending the contest!

Thanks for extending the contest!

Sure. If a car salesman were in charge of overseeing the manufacture of the cars, pushing the designers and engineers to make everything to exacting, high-quality standards.
Yes, Woz created the PC. But he did so for fun, to impress a buinch of geeks at a homebrew club. Jobs saw the potential there that he did not.

Oh, and Jobs not having done any coding or engineering? Prior to founding Apple, he worked for HP, designed cartridge games for Atari, and even helped make "Blue Boxes" with Woz for the budding Phreaking community.

After he was fired by Apple in '85, he started NeXT, where he dictated what kind of machines were made. It was on one of these machines, uning Interface Builder, that the World Wide Web was developed. This is the backbone of the internet as we know it.

During that time, Apple was near bankruptcy without Jobs. When he returned, folding NeXT into apple and turning NeXTSTEP into OS X, he turned Apple into what it is today.

Have you ever bought any Ron Popiel products? They're cheap, flimsy pieces of crap. Worst knives I ever bought.

If you hate Apple and Steve Jobs, that's fine. But at least do so for educated reasons. Ignorance always shows through.

Of all your examples, only Blu-Ray was developed by Sony. Bluetooth was developed by Ericsson (Which is NOT the same as Sony Ericsson). Now, have you ever lost a power adapter to a Sony product? They all use proprietary and VERY overpriced AC adapters. In my experience, about $75.

So, yeah, I'm crying over the necessity to download a FREE program for syncing my iPod.

Ass.

A modern-day Ron Popeil?! Are you serious?! This is the man that INVENTED the personal computer industry! Yes, Woz inveted the personal computer, but it was Jobs who invented the industry. Without him, Bill Gates wouldn't have had anything to write software for and we'd never know his name. Without Jobs, you wouldn't even have been able to write your inane, ignorant comment.

Most of the above suggestions are great but, for me, the only feature that it is killing me to not have is Voice Dialing. A BT headset is almost pointless without it.

The issue in question was for the Congressional race in Florida's 13th District during last year's Midterm elections. All the major votes were on page one of the ballot, save for that race, which shower up at the VERY top of the second page, in smaller type than all the other races. It was very easy to miss, even if you were told to look for it prior to voting.
What ended up happening was that 18,000 people who filled out everything else on the ballot did not vote in that race. This ballot problem only happened in the city in which, when votes *were* cast in the race, they leaned very heavily to the Democratic Candidate. The Republican candidate (Vern Buchanan) won by a margin of under 400 votes.

I think the 35mm vs. Digital argument isn't going to go away until there's no one on Earth remains who has seen actual 35mm projection. I've been a projectionist for eight years and every format from 16mm to Super 35mm, including digital and, as much as I love film, digital does produce a cleaner, nicer picture, depending on the equipment used.
Speaking of which, I went to ShoEast this year and there were about 6 Digital projectors being shocased for every ONE 35mm projector. The problem was that there were absolutely no established standards. There was 3LCD, DLP, SXRD and every resolution listed above. Until these people can come to a consensus, digital rollout is going to be slow to come.

Ben - In reply to your coment about color on film vs. video, you are quite correct...when it comes to acquisition. To date, I don't know of a single camera that can capture the full color range of 35mm. Some of the projectors, however, can beautifully reproduce the full dynamic color range of film (Kodak's own digital projector comes to mind). To that end, the best viewing experience would come from a movie shot on film (70mm, for the VERY best) and projected digitally (with the right projector). As far as contrast, the problem with film is that, if you hold a completely black frame up to a normal light, you can see that light right through it. When you focus a 4200w light through there, you simply can't project a true black with film because there is always SOME amount of light hitting the screen. Digital formats like DLP and SXRD avoid this by tilting the mirrors away from the screen depending on the level of darkness for that area. So, with the right projector, digital can actually beat 35mm in contrast.

As far as any pirating concerns involved with digital distribution, it's quite unlikely. All the places I've seen received an encrypted data stream via sattelite, downloaded into and played via a RAID storage system on-site (so no "searching for sattelite signal" messages) using a proprietary codec. And it's all password-protected and heavily regulated so moving them off-server is nearly impossible.