Yeah, Sony shot themselves in the foot when they insisted on the blu-ray player as the premier feature in the PS3. What they did so well when they introduced the PSX to the world, even when it seemed like suicide to face giants like Nintendo and Sega was produce an affordable console that had a great library and was relatively easy to program for. Hell, they even made it affordable for anyone to program for the Playstation (Net Yaroze).

Now they've made it clear that they're far less concerned about what people want in a game console, but what Sony wants for technology, and that's to be the dominant force behind a new media format. They chose the wrong time to introduce Blu-ray, though. High Definition streaming is quite possible now and network capable consoles without mechanical drives will very probably be the future of all consoles. Microsoft made a very wise decision in working with Netflix to bring their service to the 360. I've watched very many HD programs on my 360 now and have only been using the service for the past week or so. I can safely say that I don't need Blu-ray for HD content now.

Apple needs to do more than just offer a mid-range tower, such as not forcing the end user into a corner when it comes to hardware upgrades. Video cards for example. A friend of mine insisted that any video card could be used in a mac pro, which just isn't true. The PC relies on its ability to upgrade easily and give people options that one just can't receive on a mac.

A mid-range tower would have about the same effect on the market as the mac mini did if it can't be easily upgraded. Besides, look at the mini now. It's well above its introduced price point now. Why would a mid-range tower ever get a reasonable price point ($1000 seems the most reasonable for a mac) if the mini can't stick to its originally intended price point?

Though I do appreciate the snap judgement, my point wasn't to boast the iPhone's obvious superiority (or something) but to point out that we've known about the scratchproof qualities of glass for, I don't know, hundreds of years now? Yet it's become this wonder material for cellphone screens, but, you know, it's glass. Big deal.

Why are people impressed with this? It's glass, of course it won't scratch. It would take a lot more to scratch it than just a knife or some keys and at that point, you'll encounter the bigger problem with glass screens when it breaks.

"Alright, now we're getting somewhere! Ohpe, turning... Alright, now we're getting somewhere! Ohpe, turning... Alright, now we're getting somewhere! Ohpe, turning... Alrigh, ohpe, turning..."

Yeah, talking in spheres! *rimshot*

The point to that joke is that circles are two dimensional.

Yes, because Creative has never done anything questionable: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14467

Apple could stand to be a bit more open with their business model. I don't think they're going to get the market dominance they want (if they want it) by keeping everything closed and away from developer's hands. And they might want to pick up the pace pretty soon, because no doubt somebody's working on a way to port android to the iPhone. Who knows what will become of that, but I'm hoping nothing but good things.

It's because they have no standards.

No seriously, they have no standards. If they could just agree on one way to do something simple such as keyboard layout, then they'd be getting somewhere.

Well that's not true. The iPhone is perfectly capable of many more things than every other phone out on the market. It just so happens that Apple wants you to believe that you don't need the things it's capable of doing. You just gotta believe, man!

(Really, the one thing it lacks more than anything else in terms of hardware is a real bluetooth chipset. This purposely crippled chipset that they call "bluetooth" is nothing more than a fancy way to do handsfree. The potential for the iPhone as a real "life complement" device shot below negative zero when they left that out. Don't worry though, you don't need it. Apple said so.)

Meanwhile, typing this on my iPhone, I notices that AT&T's coverage here in Iowa is nothing short of lacklus