I don’t even own an iPad, but I can see why a consumer would have an issue with someone changing what the hard button on their machine does. There’s only one hard button on the machine I’m typing on. If someone changed it from being able to turn the computer off to muting the volume, I’d probably be pretty angry. Why do I feel a car analogy coming on? Oh, I don’t know. Hey, Steve. [...]

It doesn’t surprise me at all that AT&T would strike a new deal with Apple, in order to remain the sole carrier for the iPhone’s internet access. They want to keep Verizon, or any other carrier, out of the game. As long as there is no competition, AT&T will be as happy as a pig in…some really, nasty stuff. I could keep rambling about this, but that’s all it really comes down to. AT&T doesn’t [...]