After reading this (sent to me by my good friend Mr. Gavan Brown begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting):

I had a thought…

Steve Jobs thinks that the future of computer is arrogance – ahem – I mean, he thinks it’s about Apples.   But I disagree, I think it’s about Oranges.

Apple thinks the future of computing is on the “new PC”  which is a hand held Apple device which is powered by the highly regulated App Store.  Doomed to be only as good as the apps that Apple specifically approves (a lengthy process).

Key points of said device?:

It’s portable

Its wireless

Its options are limited by both hardware (no USB or media cards or standardized outputs) and governed software

No Flash
Continued…

What else can I say?

An *OPEN* Operating System on an *OPEN* app store and HTML5 support and Flash?   omg..

Hey Apple investors, “sell, sell, sell!!!”.

Article here

FTA:

Google showed off a preview of the Google Chrome Store during the opening keynote at its Google I/O 2010 developer conference. The final version will appear in a release of the developer build of the Chrome browser in the near future, Google vice president for product management Sundar Pichai said. It will also be natively supported on Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS targetted at netbooks.

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The store integrates the existing large thumbnails used on the New Tab page in Google Chrome with Google’s Checkout technology to allow people to acquire (and, in many cases, pay for) HTML5-based applications. “Once you set it up, it’s normally one click to add an application.”

While Apple has recently been making headlines for its refusal to support Flash on its devices, Google is taking a much more positive view of the Adobe technology. Apps in the Chrome Web store can be built on standard web technologies, including Flash, and we will support them all in the Chrome Web store.

EDIT:  Bunch more are being posted here

Starts here…

Now it will never stop…

But wait – there’s more

Betanews has an article up here with a little more meat on the whole Gizmodo vs Apple story(many of these items were touched on in the previous Jon Stewart post)

I few interesting items of note FTA:

But first the news-heavy recap: An Apple employee lost the iPhone prototype in mid-March, while celebrating his birthday. The finder later sold the device to Gizmodo, reportedly for $5,000, although the unsealed court documents list the sum as $8,500 with promise of a possible bonus later on. Gizmodo published a series of stories, with photos and videos, starting on April 19. On April 23, San Mateo police officers raided the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen. Court documents refer to him as “suspect Chen.”

and…

According to the unsealed documents, Apple’s CEO  personally called Lam (Editor in Chief @ Gizmodo), asking that Gizmodo return the iPhone prototype. Lam refused, demanding that Apple first document ownership. What? A call from Jobs isn’t verification enough?

Curious as to where the source of these  ‘unsealed documents’ references come from?  Or better yet, want to take a look yourself?

Click here

A very interesting list of items that the police removed.  I’m really struggling to understand why these items were important or related… I mean business cards?  WTF..

Were they trying to seize any electronic documents he had pertaining to discoveries Chen et al had made about the prototype phone?

Hey Steve, is your HQ in a bunker yet?

New bill demands “neutral net neutrality,” hamstrings FCC.

FTA

In an effort to make network neutrality impossible for the FCC temperament, Congressman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) yesterday introduced a new bill (PDF) that would require “neutral network neutrality.” And no, that’s not a typo.

The bill would make it difficult for the FCC to proceed with its preferred approach to network neutrality, “reclassifying” Internet access as a telecommunications service over which the FCC has “common carrier” authority.

Awwww time to pull on the puppet strings in gov’t there big business?

What a shitty, corrupt system.  You people are soul-less.   I hope people throw rotten fruit at you when they see you Mr. Stearns.

Console Bad Company 2 gets new mode, PC servers hit snag.

FTA:

On the official forums, the problem became clear: what would happen to the servers? “The problem we have on PC is that all our servers are dedicated with providers,” an Associate Producer of the game wrote. “Changing a server from Conquest 32 players to Onslaught 4 players cuts out 28 player slots from the total amount available. This could have a dramatic affect on the PC online environment if enough servers changed to Onslaught.” They are looking into ways of bringing the content to the PC without asking people to effectively give up their servers to a smaller experience.

Hey EA – I’ve got a solution … open up dedicated servers so that we can host our own!    Or maybe Peer to Peer connections?

Hey Steve, you’re going to need to come up with a few more “thoughts” on Flash…

FTA:

The cooperation is portrayed as part of a larger collaboration between Google, Adobe and Mozilla to create a new plugin API that aims to solve many of the problems with plugins today. The standard would determine how Flash and other plugins could behave and would, if realized, make plugins as fast, secure and stable as regular HTML. Flash would fit in more tightly with regular website design as a result, Google explained.

This is sheer comedic genius imo: