You know announcing a Seagate partner on the same day an Apple hard drive failure rate of 1% was announced is the exact opposite way to poke fun at the issue.

There's cancers out there with more charisma and appeal than Goldman.

Nobody will ever need a PC in their home.

Good to see HP recovering well, also nice to see the Foxconn-Rebrander knocked off the top of a market for a change.

They rolled the dice and it has come up as Snake Eyes.

Toodles RIM, it was great knowing you, then annoying, then absolutely intolerable.

See what I mean when I said the entire Pro-Apple anon poster thing is just one person who patrols dozens of tech sites.

Apple are lying yet again, all over the world they are at it, here is hoping they get a good slap for blatant misinformation presented with absolute consent from their superiors.

If you hear a tune in passing you are a criminal, worse than a rapist.

I know people get paid a lot, but "Futurologist" is a horrible title, it just screams "False" though, like conspiracy theorists and such.

To think, there'll still be a hardcore of naive imbeciles who'll still buy into the chocolate factories lousy, blatantly incorrect lying propaganda.

Fine them massively, they absolutely deserve it for their guilt and condoning of this from the CEO down.

Imagine how many people in the UK would be insulted for calling the royals here a bunch of useless Germanic sponges with all the charm and grace of syphilis.

You'd think on a technology site there wouldn't be so many pathetically naive cretins, but alas here we are, yet again people like Mr. Young and Richard Jones keep posting, sad really.

This is supposed to be a growing, expansive and generally intelligent industry, yet the dregs are still plentiful.

Does anyone else think people like Boris S and the Anon posters that poison every thread about "COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS" are just paid trolls who spend time 24/7 indexing these types of posts on dozens of sites and blogs.

Actual people don't actually hold those kinds of opinions, they're paid PR slutpuppies, and nothing of value.

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Do we get a final act with people dancing around him with different coloured crystals instead of having proper treatment?

Go FTC, please remind Google that they have to obey the law and not steal information without user consent and conduct business anti-competitively.

Hopefully they can [finally] do something about these companies ignoring the law.

I have an awesome idea.

"We're suffering a brain drain and a widening skill gap in technology, specifically in IT, so we must cut CompSci funding and put it into boneheads playing a shitty version of proper rugby"

Watch out China, the Florida Quarterbacks with Ha><><0R your Gibsons.

It's a shame he's lived three decades longer than his welcome.

I see a letter I in there.

It's patent time.

But but but but but.

PAEDOTERRORISTS

If you don't let the government have their wicked way then you are guilty of funding Al-Qaeda and hate everything in the west, and are a fundamentalist muslim.

Welcome to 2007 Microsoft. Awesome move by the giant, pioneering a service nobody wants, has no reason to use and will be region specific.

Get the Metro and Ribbon interface on it and I guarantee it will sell like a glass of legionnaires disease.

George C. Scott in collusion with the Illuminati, in connection with Josef Fritzl, in league with the Decepticons, who have very close ties to Nestle who are clearly in bed with Dwight Eisenhower who is financially supported by a grant from the Chubb group.

Case closed.

El Reg can you please correct the mistake in your headline and article please.

From blatant fraud in Australia to ignoring Chinese patents and rulings to trying to ban competitors products everywhere on earth.

I will believe it when I see it, so far Cook you have proven to be thoroughly Jobsian.

Great list, can't help but feel they're inducting too many for just a single year though. Going to run out of genuine entries sharpish if they keep on that road.

If I had that money I'd be balls deep in some serious patent litigation.

E-Mails cause paedophilia. FACT.

Therefore everyone sending them is guilty until proven innocent, the records lost, rendition for 4 years in Libya, then an enquiry which will prove your guilt.

Has anyone questioned why he is still protesting his innocence despite being absolutely guilty and completely implicit to everything from hacking dead girls cellphones to harassing dozens of others?

Looks pretty legit, it'd be nice to see him take them all to the cleaners, Apple especially though.

So they've progressed from deception to outright fraud.

Well played Apple, keep digging, you might strike Jobs.

Do you ever notice that those lunatic religious sorts who hurl abuse at people in the streets get "bless" and a hail mary pass on their bigotry but people asking for fair and equitable and reasonable treatment from society are accused of "PUSHING IT INTO FACES" like feminism and lgbt rights, neither of which is pushy at all yet always heralded as so while religious nutters who want to inflict pain on people get away with it.

Good. Your photos are terrible anyway.

Didn't realise there were so many mugs perusing the tech sites. Apple must be thankful there's millions of Charles E's out there.