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""It's not worthy of the cult, but no laptops are any more. Even Apples feel flimsy and ill thought out compared even to PowerBooks from 5 years ago." Sorry, you're wrong. I have a powerbook G4, a MacBook Pro (from 2008) and a 2012 MacBook Air and I would take the build quality and everything else about the Air over the other two right now. In our office we have Macs from every year since the old Powerbooks and nothing is more flimsy or less durable." - Brian Schwartz

"Thrawn was great because he could guess how a species would attack by studying their art, also because he took a ragtag bunch of imperial remnants and almost destroyed the new republic." - Brian Schwartz

"For a post called "By the numbers", this post actually doesn't include any besides a link to the WSJ's stock details. Right now - it's all speculation. If they miss everyone's targets for the next quarter, then we can talk about a fall and what that entails. Right now it's based on supply chain rumors instead of real numbers." - Brian Schwartz

"I played with a Windows 8 touch desktop at Microcenter recently and it was very underwhelming. The touch wasn't responsive at all and didn't do anything particularly useful. I'll stick with my MacBook Air. 1.5lbs w/ a quad core i5 & 8GB of RAM." - Brian Schwartz

"I'm adopted, and I agree with you, but then I ended up having a rare disease that was at the time undiagnosed, so I had to reach out to both of my biological parents recently and I'm happy I did and it's worked out well and I received the info I needed. I've heard horror stories from others who haven't had the experience I did, so I understand your hesitation. I love my family (the ones who adopted me and raised me) and nothing will ever change that. I have found the genetic similarities between my biological parents and 1/2 siblings to be interesting and insightful." - Brian Schwartz

"I'm in the midwest US. May want to make sure you are using a good DNS provider (instead of your ISP) in case you're seeing a DNS cached version of the app store?" - Brian Schwartz

"I'm in the midwest US. May want to make sure you are using a good DNS provider (instead of your ISP) in case you're seeing a DNS cached version of the app store?" - Brian Schwartz

"Ok, now it is available in Software Update." - Brian Schwartz

"Link to iTunes is still not live (at least for me), still says "coming in November"?" - Brian Schwartz

"Except the iPhone's geekbench score is about the same as the GS3 (one site says it's slightly better, one says it's slightly worse) even though the GS3 has an over clocked quad-core, and the iPhone 5 has a under-clocked dual core and the GS3 has double the amount of RAM. Because Apple also writes the software / OS. So even though you think the phone is behind on "hardware and specs" it doesn't matter. The device usability is the better and the device feels faster." - Brian Schwartz

"Except when LTE first shipped on Android phones (2 years or more ago) the battery life on those devices was half a day (of normal use) and LTE was only available in ~10 markets. Apple waited until the processors, antennas, battery life combo was better and the availability was nearly ubiquitous." - Brian Schwartz

"We'll have to agree to disagree. My "friends" circle (real-life friends which includes a lot of people I chat with in gchat) has one post since Aug 24. My local folks who are in the web business circle has 4 posts since yesterday. Real numbers, real people, not exactly all the "engagement" I can handle. I'm not missing any train, keep ranting if you'd like." - Brian Schwartz

"We'll have to agree to disagree. My "friends" circle (real-life friends which includes a lot of people I chat with in gchat) has one post since Aug 24. My local folks who are in the web business circle has 4 posts since yesterday. Real numbers, real people, not exactly all the "engagement" I can handle. I'm not missing any train, keep ranting if you'd like." - Brian Schwartz

"I've tried engaging several times and had no results (on a personal level, as an early adopter with a lot of people in circles). The people in my social circles aren't there (real social circles, not g+'s). Seems the only ones who are there and active are either folks in SEO industry, or über Google fans who don't like Facebook." - Brian Schwartz

"I've tried engaging several times and had no results (on a personal level, as an early adopter with a lot of people in circles). The people in my social circles aren't there (real social circles, not g+'s). Seems the only ones who are there and active are either folks in SEO industry, or über Google fans who don't like Facebook." - Brian Schwartz

"<quote>The Niceties blog stands as proof that regardless of rhetoric to the contrary, gorgeous, design-competitive Android apps do exist, and they’re as breathtaking, sophisticated, and elegant as their Windows Phone and iOS cousins.</quote> Not a huge "win" when all but two of these are also available on iOS. Nor much of a differentiation when the majority were ports from iOS...." - Brian Schwartz

"Licensed it from TomTom, and a ton of other providers. I've been using iOS 6 for two months and have to say that turn-by-turn is better than on my HTC One X." - Brian Schwartz

"Licensed it from TomTom, and a ton of other providers. I've been using iOS 6 for two months and have to say that turn-by-turn is better than on my HTC One X." - Brian Schwartz

"Or rather they licensed it from TomTom, but you know don't let the facts get in the way of your anti-Apple bias." - Brian Schwartz

"Or rather they licensed it from TomTom, but you know don't let the facts get in the way of your anti-Apple bias." - Brian Schwartz

"Love to have one to play with" - Brian Schwartz

"I do not believe how people get by in life today without a valid ID. You need it to do all of the following:  - open a bank account - cash a check, even without a bank account - get a job (when you fill out a w-2 or w-9) - legally drive a car - prove residency for any type of service (sign up for utilities) - travel by airplane - get a marriage license, fishing license, or any other state issued license.  Prosecutors don't find a lot of instances of voter fraud because they don't look hard enough. I live in St. Louis where the homeless are given free packs of cigarettes as they board a bus to vote (and I'm sure they are told who to vote for every time). Voting by the dead is a frequent occurrence here as well." - Brian Schwartz

"5%? Try 50% for some sites (like newspapers). Feel free to keep ignoring an entire platform because you think users shouldn't use the device for how they are using it. Separate mobile sites often introduce their own UX problems - ever opened a link to an article from twitter and been routed to a mobile version when using a desktop browser?" - Brian Schwartz

"Pfc - using media queries isn't tailoring sites to specific displays or devices, it is tailoring them for specific widths. Being responsive means supporting different sized layouts and tailoring content for them. IMHO, it's better to do this than creating a mobile site for one for audience and a "normal" site for everyone else. And adding this spec into the "W3C standard" doesn't mean you have to support it. It just allows others to do so." - Brian Schwartz

"WriteRoom @creativereason" - Brian Schwartz

"I had problems like this on my 2008 MacBook Pro when I upgraded to Lion. Due to needing a fan replaced, I went ahead and installed a clean SSD with a clean install of Lion at that time and haven't had a problem since. In fact, it nows runs similarly to my late 2010 iMac i5 with 16GB of RAM. Not quite as fast with multiple Creative Suite apps running, but due to the SSD, boot, wakeup and all the other IO related tasks are faster.  I don't know if you've tried it a clean Lion install or not. But it could make all the difference as other commenters have suggested." - Brian Schwartz

"Go ahead and look at any site that has +1 button, FB like button and Twitter "tweet" buttons and see how the #'s compare. On most of the web, the numbers are 10 - 20x higher for FB on every post. However, on this site (where based on the passionate defense of G+ and Google the numbers are skewed, it's only 2x higher).  Not one of my wife's friends have ever tried G+ and when I've asked them too (and shown it to them) they say no (they are teachers). G+ is only succeeding in tech and SEO crowds. I would guess that only 1 in 20 of the average Youtube user has ever really tried G+." - Brian Schwartz

"Go ahead and look at any site that has +1 button, FB like button and Twitter "tweet" buttons and see how the #'s compare. On most of the web, the numbers are 10 - 20x higher for FB on every post. However, on this site (where based on the passionate defense of G+ and Google the numbers are skewed, it's only 2x higher).  Not one of my wife's friends have ever tried G+ and when I've asked them too (and shown it to them) they say no (they are teachers). G+ is only succeeding in tech and SEO crowds. I would guess that only 1 in 20 of the average Youtube user has ever really tried G+." - Brian Schwartz

"A lot of google zealots on here... I have 3 FB accts, and I have at least 10 different domains on google apps email, each of those keeps prompting me to join google+. I have on at least 5 of them. The numbers like that skew both ways." - Brian Schwartz

"A lot of google zealots on here... I have 3 FB accts, and I have at least 10 different domains on google apps email, each of those keeps prompting me to join google+. I have on at least 5 of them. The numbers like that skew both ways." - Brian Schwartz