jchimney

Not really bad at all if these are the cherry picked negative comments. These are the most critical comments that could be gathered from numerous reviews?

They finally got this right. Photos, for me, was a major upgrade to iPhoto. Allowing me to have full resolution copies on numerous machines, and size optimized copies on mobile, secondary machines with no syncing effort on my part.

May not be for everyone; but I love it.

many people being happy with just a smart phone or tablet running a non-intel chip might have something to do with it as well

Not cool. I love my apple products and ecosystem; but an effort should be made to identify and reimburse.

well invested in the apple ecosystem but this seems very good. I am very intrigued and may well end up with a few of these in my family. If the reality matches the marketing, I'm in. For a fitness accessory the on device GPS is the killer app.

they are always the 'good guys' until they are coming after you. I can imagine, a time when government would have requested comms from the Occupation movement. The problem is that they get to determine who the current enemy is. We all agree that the extremes are negative (i.e. ISIS, Narc Terr etc.) but what if a government is elected that decides that reproductive rights, equal pay, race equality, pot legalization etc. are an issue...Are you still ok with back doors? There would have been a time in the very near past that these things would have been a very powerful weapon in the authority's arsenal that would have stifled our culture's advancement (imho).

trumpet winsock and hours of troubleshooting different configs :) irq settings etc

I hate government intervention in these matters, I really do. But in the case of Google I feel that their search results should be walled off from any other business interests. They have so much influence over the discovered internet that maybe its time to separate search from their other business interests.

Page and Brin were geniuses in realizing early that search was the golden ring to reach for. They deserve their billions for bringing this amazing service to us; but now with shareholders muddying the waters I don't think this should be leveraged for other business efforts.

I agree with much that you said; but I don't think you can minimize the boost android got by having eric on apple's board during a very critical formative point in the iPhone development. Google completely abandoned their earlier prototypes once they saw what apple had brewing. http://bgr.com/2013/12/19/original-iphone-android-story/

Its an improvement. The typical pass has 4 characters so 10,000 possible combinations. Doing about 1 per second would find the password in the worst case scenario in about 3 hours; simply by trying all possible combinations.

I think trying to lift a usable fingerprint off a glass surface would be significantly more difficult than that.

Yup, Apple needs to fix this. Doesn't seem like a difficult engineering problem on the surface. Just fix it.

ugly... sorry, I like the concept but I have to wear this?

not crashing safari for me... Mavericks beta.

There will always be fans of a product willing to put a few bucks down to see it happen. Not going away

very impressive how prescient george orwell was; impressive but of little consolation. I'm a big fan of technology; but i hope that technology wasn't the missing something that previous governments lacked to be able to enforce their authoritarianism.

you sound ridiculous. sorry but you expected better than a 4 day turn around on this? pull your head out of your ass. these guys are probably still pouring over logs, doing forensics...

I read the comments dismissing apples handling of this. What would you have expected them to do? There is a LOT of forensics going on probably even now trying to get a handle on this. A massive corp isn't going to make an announcement until they have some idea what they're talking about. In my books 4 days is a very quick first announcement from a company of this size.

Maybe the larger point is that they don't need permission

Maybe a crowd funded site to bribe Kara to never do one of these again.

You and I and apple avoid taxes. They are not evading. Do you intentionally pay more taxes than the law requires you to?

In Canada we remember with shame the WW2 Japanese internment camps. Gitmo will be this generations great shame. Marriage equalization, and reasonable pot legislation are happening... But gitmo remains a black mark. Due process should not be malleable.

Don't you remember? Or are you too young to recall what phones were like prior to the first iPhone. I despise the current climate of litigation; but I remember., and all the claims otherwise won't make me forget.

Zoomed just fine on my ipad

If the designs were so obvious, why did every phone prior to the iPhone look like crap, and almost every phone since its release looks like a clone or at the least a close sibling?

Loved my palm pilot (kinda). Really loved my treo. Didn't realize how lame it was until seeing the Jobs keynote for the original iPhone.

Originally these patent portfolios were considered defensive like nuclear stockpiles. Everyone assumed that mutually assured destruction would prevent the war from starting.

I'm not sure who is responsible for the current state but I do remember what every phone I ever saw looked like the month before the iPhone was released.

Shouldn't it be better every time?

proud of you.. you cat, bacon, narwhal loving bunch of weirdos