Apple gone crazy?

I was really shocked to see that Apple allowed the Opera we browser into the app store for the iPhone. In the past they have taken a hard line at not approving applications that "duplicated original functionality". So since the phone ships with Apple's own Safari browser how is it that they can judge Opera to NOT be duplicating the original functionality? Since its release the Opera browser has become the most downloaded application in all 22 markets that the App Store services....that's pretty crazy. I mean everyone's iPhone could already browse the web perfectly fine, why would anyone want a CHOICE of browsers? What a novel concept.

I hope the success of Opera shines a very bright spot light on Apple's draconian App Store practices. I for one would love to have the Google Voice application that Apple shot down last year for "duplicating original functionality". Exactly how many legs do they have to stand on now?

World's Best Dad

I get asked a lot why I don't have any kids. Here's a good reason, having kids that have bad taste in music and lack civility.


What a douche.

Half ass

Great article about how our screwed up tax code is the root of all our budget problems. How many of the white, middle to upper middle class, conservative tea party asshats actually pay their fair share?

It's educational

Learn something about biology...then say WTF!?

Hypocrites

Is even the Republican legend Ronald Reagan to left leaning for today's right wing asshats? For years staunch Republicans championed him as our last "great" President.

Yet when Obama signs a nuclear disarmament treaty that is nearly identical to what Reagan wanted to do almost 30 years ago he is maligned as selling our national security down the drain.

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Soiled iPad

When the Apple iPad was announced there was some interesting remarks from people "in the know" that the $499 starting prices was actually higher than the rumored launch price. With that in mind, check out this article about how much it actually costs Apple to build the iPad. It costs Apple less than $300 to build that $499 device.

Yes, I know that doesn't take into account the R&D costs and advertisement costs for the device but those arguments are total bullshit. First, Apple doesn't need to advertise any of their consumer electronics. The media gives them huge amounts of free coverage which is far more effective than any ad campaign that Apple could ever devise themselves. Apple has become the absolute masters of manipulating the media with their product secrecy and launch strategies. Second, exactly how much could the R&D for the iPad have really cost? The software is identical to that already running on the iPhone and iPod Touch so little work was required to port that to the iPad hardware. The hardware itself is evolutionary not revolutionary so that cost is probably really low as well.

So Apple probably makes a minimum of $100 profit off of each iPad they sell which has to be the absolute envy of every consumer electronics company out there. Take Sony for example, they still lose money on every PlayStation 3 sold today and it's been on the market for more than three years. Sony can do that because they make up the loss on the licensing and sale of content(games,Blu-ray,etc).

Considering that last point, Apple's profit on the hardware should REALLY piss you off. The iPad is a content consumption device and Apple is making about 30% off of every app, song, video and book that you buy on your iPad. That should also scare the living shit out of all of Apple's competitors because If they really wanted to they could drop the entry level iPad's price all the way down to $250 and they would still make bucket-fulls of money off of it. Owning the content delivery channel gives them the the ability to subsidize the price of the device to a level that no competitor could manage without taking a huge loss on every device sold.

The real John McCain?

This is laugh out loud funny shit. John McCain spent millions of campaign money trying to convince America that he was a "Maverick"....two years later he says he wasn't. WTF!

Time for Smores.

Huge Oil Tank Explosion.





Second video, this one is much closer but the camera man is an ass hat.