Under EU law the settings have to be respected. Google did not comply with the law.

It's pretty simple to comply with the law, software shouldn't need to use brute force to enforce the law. They used tricks they thought would never get discovered to maintain their revenue stream of providing data to advertisers.

3.0 was just a version bump to celebrate its 20 year anniversary. I don't think anything major happened to it before the bump.

If it wasn't for Android they would be complaining about Google's actions. Somehow Android excuses them for anything.

So if you don't trust Google with your privacy then why on earth would you run their browser?

It's funny, because code signing and cryptography seems to work in the games console world. They have only managed to get around the protection in consoles after a lot of hard work and in the case of the PS3 they wouldn't have so easily had Sony been a bit more clever. In some cases hardware modifications were needed.

So why should it fail so easily in the computer market?

It's not about preventing apps that aren't signed, it just alerts and warns you about those that aren't.

Windows Vista, 7 and Server 2008 do this. You can switch off such warnings.

Wasn't Microsoft going to prevent the loading device drivers they hadn't approved also? it's more or less the same thing. It's about trust and stability.

Maybe it's called having a range of products? not everyone can justify £400-500 for a phone. There's a world economic crisis taking place still.

Screamers is pretty accurate too.

But hollywood is looking for ideas and inspiration. But nobody wants to do the book without changes, otherwise how can they claim to have contributed?

Erm, while they weren't the most amazing computer. That was largely down to the legacy Mac OS.

But they were ground breaking in terms of design. Up until them most computers were dull ugly beige boxes. The iMac showed people that computers could be attractive.

So you've never felt that you want to stop tapping away at your phone and type the message on a real computer keyboard?

It's optional, you can switch it off.

It's optional. They've providing the ability for certain paranoid people to only get software from specific sources which are validated.

This isn't much different to the "official" package repositories for Linux.

If it ever becomes mandatory then you will have a point. But I would imagine that nobody would upgrade and it wouldn't be mandatory for long.

Erm, Microsoft built their wall higher first and Apple are catching them up. Not the other way around.

XP had confirmations about unsigned drivers years ago. Code signing and warnings are nothing now.

If you've used Windows 7 and Vista you'll notice they do the same. They show a warning about not being able to verify the identity of the software etc.

It's obvious now, just like anything you have gotten used to is obvious.The mouse seems obvious, touch screens and multitouch seems obvious.

I suggest you go back to 2006 and look at touch screen user interfaces prior to the iPhone. I would also look at the original Android prototypes, they're nothing like how Android phones were when released. This suggests Google looked to see how popular the iPhone would be before being "inspired" by their UI.

An example of early Android:

http://gizmodo.com/334909/google-android-prototype-in-the-wild

50 years is pretty insane, it's more like building up a pension than a generating a living.

But we all know that copyright was increased not for Cliff but for Disney as Mickey Mouse was about to leave copyright.

If they only registered it in 10 countries then by buying the rights to 10 countries that makes the rights worldwide since part of the agreement would be that Apple would register rights in the other countries (if they hadn't already).

Proview are probably being bankrolled by Apple competitors anyway, they're practically going out of business.

People had owned their phones before and moved on, just like they had from Nokia. It takes a lot to go back to a brand you used to use but moved on from.

Hence why I shake my head in disbelief every time a new Android phone is announced with an even bigger screen. Someone somewhere will justify carrying a 7 inch screened phone soon.

Perhaps this is why people don't carry their phones around the office. They go off repeatedly with phone calls, messages and calendar reminders and nobody is there to stop them.

Oh come on, how many desktop applications ask you to access all the various APIs?

I can write an application on OSX that reads all the address book and sends it off to a server. You can almost certainly do the same thing on Windows and Linux.

The difference is people are more willing and naive when it comes to installing software on their phone.

Guess what, when you come to sell the Apple laptop you get a really good price for it. Try that with a generic PC laptop.

When buying cars people talk about depreciation, well just like a desirable car (VW Golf, BMW 3 Series) depreciation is much less with an Apple laptop. That alone is worth paying the extra for IMHO.

Or buy your PC laptop (or Citroen C5) and get nothing for it when you come to sell.

They're focussing on Apple at they are making a lot of money. But I doubt this extra money they're making is not by pressuring manufacturers into cutting corners, it is by the fact that their products are more expensive to buy in the first place.

Korea is an emerging market? they've had broadband for years, are massively into online gaming and are very well known for like gadgets with a million features.

We're the slime that crawled out of the sea compared to them.

How so? it was Apple who kept getting sued initially by patent trolls. This was back when they were still mainly making iPods. All the claims against the clickwheel and other elements of the device.

So obviously once bitten they are going to bite back.

So you had email on your phone 14 years ago? I somehow doubt it. They're on about recognising things in emails and SMS also.

They had pretty much saturated the business market (for everyone that wants such mobile comms), so were looking at growing into the consumer market. Everyone tries to do that if possible, you don't want to be reliant on one market.

There's a simple and rather headslapping reason for that. Their services assumed that only one BB device would connect to a user account at a time. So their services weren't able to cope with multiple devices synchronising Rather short sighted I guess.

It's just badly worded. I think they were offering some background on what overclocking is, instead of implying that Overclockers UK sell modified processors (which wouldn't be good news).

It's often easier to scale up than scale down though. Especially if the OS you're scaling up has never had a WIMP based interface, you don't have any legacy apps with mouse and keyboard input to worry about.

Personally I wonder if the dual personality thing is a good idea. It will be a master of none if it's not done right.

IE6 is widely used in China as many people run dodgy copies of XP and Microsoft lock them out of later versions with WGA.

Many people don't like external boxes hanging around, they look naff and it means two remotes instead of one.

Also as the Internet is now firmly integrated into daily life why not make it more casual to use and more powerful by sticking it on a big screen where you can sit back on your lazyboy with a beer and surf away.

It does exist and is in use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#Popularity

Flash isn't a standard, it's proprietary and there's no published standard for it so that anyone else can implement it.

Looks like standard business practice, everyone else "does it this way" and so we must do it too. He'll get a big bonus for implementing it too.