Am I just cynical?

So he buys Apple stock at a low value, says they have a major product launch coming up, then others buy the shares, value goes up, he cashes in.

£20 or £400

So all those people who still do not use smart phones and currently spend <£100 on a phone will all suddenly decide that a £400 handset is for them, somewhat unlikely. Especially as we see Apple's growth slowing already and Android still rising.

Maybe these people will continue to use the dumb phones they are happy with.

When I eventually upgrade my iPhone 4, I won't be sticking with iOS I don't think unless Apple suddenly comes up with something genuinely brilliant which is something they haven't done recently.

How can I watch it?

When we brought our new house, we knew we would get Satelite TV so we didn't bother fitting an aerial and I still see no point in doing so. How many others will go the same route I wonder and as existing aerials get blown down in storms, will they really get replaced? I know I could get freeview through one but for the one or two channels I can't get on freesat, it barely seems worthwhile.

So the potential audience for these channels is going to get smaller and smaller as less people have the capability to receive their broadcasts. Especially if the quality of their output is anything like I experienced when living in Oxford which for years had a local tv channel which I never watched.

Who'd have guessed

So guys pretending to be women online will wear skimpy clothing because lets face it that is who these people are.

Still using a 701

I have two of the original 701s and one of them is still in use as a fileserver on my home network. Most of the time it just sits there consuming very little power allowing the other machines in the house to drag files off the bank of external drives. It does an admiral job too.

Yes there are better options available but these cost nothing as a school I used to do work for gave me them along with a BBC Master which was about to be scrapped.

No surprise there

After trying Orange a while back and getting dreadful service, both technical and from customer support, we ended up getting released from our contract after about three months. The view I got was that the call centre in Asia really did not care about the customer.

Not bad but hard to see why

I have been using it for a while now and bits are quite nice and I would have no issues buying it if I needed another copy of Office. I don't however need another copy and I really struggle to see a big reason to upgrade, I guess most people are in the same boat regarding this and many will ask 'why?'

Wow a British goverment willing to stand up to their US counterparts. I hope we see future governments follow in their footsteps.

So that is who is responsible

For my lounge being bathed in light 24 hours a day, even with the lights off. Awesome invention.

False Economy

This is going to hurt OpenReach in a few years when people begin to realise that fttc is a dead end technology and for a reasonable sized family is only really just good enough for today's usage. As bandwidth requirements appear to increase massively OR will be forced to scrap all of those nice new cabs and install fibre to the home.

Even more ridiculous is that new estates are being built with no fibre provision whatsoever and because most of these are on the edge of towns, the ADSL speeds are very poor. Ours included. Took a massive effort for OR to admit that when they surveyed the area for fibre there was just a farm there.

bad for America

Surely this is bad for the entire US economy, if companies are not allowed to restrict resales of things produced in the US but they are for things from outside, that is just an incentive to produce more outside the US than already happens.

It Probably Will

Given the governments track record in securing data, giving it to a third party probably will make it more secure. Especially if that third party refuses to give the government access to the data.

Our road is in the right place

Surprisingly our road is in the right place. Shame the road which leads to it isn't there at all :( Fortunately Bing provides the correct info .

20 hours

I gave up when it told me that it would take 20 hours to download. Not in any major hurry to upgrade anyway.

Just more reasons

to get rid of Apple next time I get a new phone (soon). When I brought in the iPhone was the best (just) now they are just milking the popularity. Innovation has dried up and the competition are racing ahead.

and it will sell

Lets face it, the iPhone 5 upgrade will be boring, we pretty much know that, a slightly bigger screen and ... well that is about it. As were the the 4 & 4S. And before the fanbois start, I am not a fandroid, I own an iPhone.

Face it though, handsets from other makers are far more exciting, including the new Nokias and they offer more features.

Despite that the iPhone 5 will sell like hot cakes because they are seen as being cool and the media hype tells consumers who don't know any better that the iPhones are the best. Which a couple of years ago they probably were.

Bye bye iPhone.

My wife has been using the 710 for a while and it is great, been looking forward to this coming out so I can get rid of that dated iPhone and its Jurassic user interface.

Message to Apple the world has moved on whilst you were so busy worrying about suing the competition.

A few more bricks

Come on these garden walls aren't high enough already.

Funny, I can't remember having problems with bandwidth when streaming flac even 24bit.

Really

I think someone has been on the same stuff as Apple's lawyers!

So what about those with <2Mb/s connections, no TV at all for us. Even those with better connections will struggle to watch different channels. Unless of course you are one of the lucky ones on a fibre connection. How about download caps? Will ISPs be forced to lift those to cover streaming?

Painted metal interior?

There is a reason most modern cars don't go down that route, cheap it maybe but it is noisy, just try the Aygo or one of its identicals by other makes. Another tiny impractical pseudo eco-box with real world economy way below its claims and rivaled by other much more practical cars.

Just another false positive?

The problem is of course that if somebody is tricked into trusting somebody so much then are they going to believe the person or the machine. People like to think they will spot a fraudster and so will invariably choose their own judgement over that of a machine.

Maybe I will hold off on the IPad purchase after all. Are Apple really going to release a near 5" screened iPhone and a 7" iPad?