Talk about a Class A effort at riling up the Mac fanboy’s. I mean really - coming out and suggesting that His Job’ness would even entertain the thought of planned obsolesce for the treasured iPhone - that takes a strong suit of asbestos underwear. However that is exactly the argument that Seth Porges in his guest posting is putting forth over at CrunchGear where he goes through point by missing features point. [via CrunchGear]

In a pretty plain and straight forward post Adam Ostrow makes the point that music isn’t free folks and even though content businesses are trying to find ways to monetize their product - music - downloading copyrighted material is still against the law. As he puts it - some with business sense started a business who then found some-one with a marketable talent and signed them to a contract where they both made money. It comes back to my old argument folks - at some point people want to get paid for their work. [via Adam Ostrow]

Trust Robert Cringely to start a firestorm - which I am sure that this week’s post about AT&T getting seduced by Apple will start. That isn’t the part that I found the most fun though. No .. that part was at the end of the post when he starts talking about the ill-mouthed anonymous commenter’s and how he wonders if they’ll still be so potty mouthed on a video version of Robert’s blog. Like him I can’t wait ….. after all it’s easier to be an idiot when everyone thinks you’re a dog. [via I, Cringely @ PBS.org]

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