Good, apple needs a wake up call

Hopefully this will encourage Apple to actually think about a serious upgrade for the next iPhone, instead of yet another incremental tweak that does nothing more than speed up an existing feature slightly.

Wouldn't existing laws about privacy and peeping toms already cover this?

Not so bad

There seems to be a lot of WP hate here but my lumia920 pisses all over my iphone4 for signal quality in calls/3g and wifi.

I'm not sure android IS free.

Doesn't Google have to pay Microsoft a patent fee for every copy of android used?

Disney has spent a lot of money making sure copyright becomes forever; a company that built it self animating other peoples stories.

Does apple actually have a department working inside the US patent office? They seem to be getting every stupid patent they ask for....no matter how dumb, obvious or how many examples of prior art exist.

String handling must have been the only thing that was better. :P

No orange?

I was hoping for a super bright dayglo orange.

This will only get worse until people stop buying into it; we're now paying for hardware we don't actually own according to them, and software/books etc they can wipe and block access to as they see fit.

my iphone4 is almost incapable of holding a wifi signal now, despite the router being less than 20 feet away.

Sounds to me like the Jury foreman was 1 step away from being guilty of jury tampering. Apple has a long and wonderful history of stealing/borrowing other peoples ideas, they just never stooped so low as to then claim they invented them before,

Could work as a prelude

This could work fine if it was used as an intro, ie Dredd isn't yet the man in charge. This gives them time to bring in the proper uniform etc and age the character. (and hopefully do the Dark Judges storyline)

Are we talking 1gb a day or a month for this unlimited data?

Patents arn't broken, the US patent office is

Almost everything apple argued on had prior art or was just plain obvious, meaning that in almost any country outside the USA they would never have been given the majority of the patents in question.

Ok, according to the news samsung were found guilty of things including the pinch to zoom and screen bounce effect...both functions of googles android and nothing to do with samsung...how did that work?

I think what galls most people is the rank hypocrisy of Apple. A company that exists due to seeing other peoples ideas and copying/adapting them. Now that they're on top they want this ability stopped for others.

If they can sell an RT tablet for under £200 i'd have one pre-ordered.

Apple appear to have given up trying to sell products based on ability, now they're just gonna try and sue the competition out of the market.

I'm really hoping that wp8 is big step up from wp7; i'm more interested in seeing how that turns out.

the only way MS are going to convince people to upgrade to win8 is to release some form of cheap new desktop touch device, cos metro is an abomination using a mouse.

i plan to move from iphone to wp8.

strange timing

Isn't it strange that these gadgets only become a security issue as win7 is ready to be phased out for win8.

I cant see anyone with windows 7 voluntarily upgrading to windows8; short of MS crippling dx12 so its win8 only.

MS taking GUI design tips from fisher price

Microsoft have a history of announcing their next big UI idea as the next coming; then admitting a few years later it was a steaming heap. for example the SDI/MDI Gui thing they tried to enforce.

So far from what ive seen win8 does nothing but cripple windows for people who took the time to learn it in favour of those who 1. insist that tablets are the holy grail or 2. expect to use things without any form of learning curve.

Hopefully they wont come up with some fake crap like dx12 being win8 only to force upgrades from win7.

luckily this only appears to be allowed in the usa. other countries appear to have kept the laws that try to prevent big companies shitting on consumers at will.

doubtful

I'l go out on a limb and say nVidia are talking out of their backsides; given the problems they have cooling current massive pc gfx cards i cant see them solving it in 2 years so you get the same performance in a tiny sealed unit.

anyone surprised?

Just another case of someone with power and money convinced he's above the laws the rest of us peasants live under; and he's probably right.

crazy

You couldnt pay me to go visit the USA, theyre rapidly approaching thought crime status. I await the news that they have re openned the Salem witch trials.

4" easy

The iphone could easily be increased to a 4" screen without increasing the overall phone size.

he's an idiot

Tony Blair never saw a bandwagon he didnt jump on or a chance for rank hipocracy he never took.

its all for appearance

This whole security system is only there to give the impression that something is being done.

This is possibly the dumbest article of the year so far. If it was just a matter of whats available i would pack my PC with ssd drives, but that's currently unafordable.

Further proof that the British judiciary is now a spineless piece of sh*t that will do whatever it's told.

the iphone doesnt have to be physically bigger to support a 4" screen, it only needs the earpiece/sensor and home button to be moved.

It's a sad sign of how the USA is progressing that they even tried to implement such a law.

Why not have noah play the older jobs this time? he played the part well in the first film.

They got what they paid for

I have no pity for those that decided to jump the gun and buy before the official discount while the rest waited patiently for it to be official ( and avoid this situation).

of course it bollocks, its marketting

I'll be impressed if the next gen consoles are any better than a dual gtx 580 could manage.

ownership?

The goal of modern retailers such as apple is that you never own anything, you're basically renting time with it. You can only do what they say with it, you can't pass it on or give it away; and while you pay handsomely for this, they track your every purchase and build up profiles on you...possibly so that in future they can then sell access to these profiles to advertisers.

meh

Tablets and phones wont take off as true portable consoles until they sort out the controls, theres only so many games that work on touch only; platformers and shooters play like crap on touch compared to traditional controls.

well duh

Of course the extradition law is being abused, any law created these days will be abused by someone within a few months, despite reasurances that it will never happen.

Governments must love the recent wave of terrorism, its created an atmosphere where they can rush through any dumb catch all law they can think of.

total drivel

I know no-one who's ever bought a PC in order to sync their music collection. iCloud is a great idea if youre on 50mb broadband but the average UK is nowhere near it.

wtf

Well that article was pretty much pure gibberish, the ipad has done nothing to the pc market...its a completely different bit of hardware designed purely for consumption.

nice if you can get it

The people all for DAB will be the ones living in perfect reception areas. The problem with these new digital systems is thats all or nothing, those that live in poor reception areas will get nothing; but since when have the HAVEs cared about the HAVE NOTS.

Maybe make the title 'Top three netbooks we've reviewed'?

Maybe if the test is only going to include netbooks that have been sent to you for review, you could make this clear in the article.