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Does Android have an iTunes match equivalent? Does it live update things like bookmarks using a cloud service? Live updating of things like music playlists and bookmarks across laptop, tablet and phone is the number one feature for me from Apple.

That lists puts 2 Blackberrys ahead of the iPhone 4

Jonny has an iPad too, go figure.

Explain how the earth is not rotating (as you claimed i believe?) but time goes faster when you fly east and i'll read the OP

CT, get an iphone, as if you care about a 'closed ecosystem'. Looks nice to me, we are getting them at work next year as we are dumping Blackberry.

Samsung copied Apple, anyone with half a brain can see that. The court had to decide if the patents held by Apple meant the copying was illegal. The copying part isn't in question. Simple things like accessing an app via a touch sensitive icon are ubiquitous now but pre iPhone didn't exist and are the result of a hardware development philosophy that wanted to create a seamless user experience. Samsung had a bit of that. In fact they had a bit of everything that made the iPhone. Apple's court victory was about compensation for copying the design. Design is as much intellectual property as the mechanics underneath. You can't build a car to look like another one and expect to get away with it so the same applies for all products. But let's not forget what is quite simply understood by everyone in the tech industry, android is an iOS rip off and Samsung copies every single design feature of the iPhone. I don't blame Google or Samsung for adopting winning strategies nor Apple for bristling at blatantly being ripped off.

Their revenue has gone from 30bn in 2008 to 100bn in 2011, so a constant $ R&D spend is a drop from 10% to 2% of revenue over 3 years. It had the most successful quarter of any company ever in history at the end of 2011 driven by 2 products that didnt exist even 5 years ago. Bit churlish to call them out on innovation when a court of law has basically stated that everyone else copies them.

It was a weekend in Berlin, I was on business and decided to stay for the weekend as a mate lived there. My colleague also stopped for the weekend so we were 3, I mentioned it on NO, I think Parky pm'ed big Dave (GM) to get my number, he called, we arranged to meet up at this restaurant which had a club attached. Much vodka and red bull later, Parky produced some mysterious biscuits from his pocket, we ate those and ended up at the Watergate for a mad techno night, my mate copped off with my colleague and me and Parky shared a bed.

Hamburg is great and I can definitely recommend a night out with Parky.

Was McGeady playing Ant? He had a canny game against Fenerbahce the other day.

I've got the 64GB 4S and have integrated it into my daily fitness routine. I'm benching 5 iPhones (5x5 = 25 - battery life) with perfect form whilst chatting to me mam.

Aye, nowt to worry about Ant.

Been doing around 5km a day for the last 2 weeks, played an hour of tennis over lunch yesterday. I was on about 15-20km a week over the summer but have hit about 40km this week as my schedule has allowed it. Feeling a bit fucked in the knees, thighs so not going today. Regularly I should settle on 1 hour of tennis and 25km per week.

Bloody hell Chris, really sorry to hear about all that. Can you send my very best regards on to your kid for me, fingers toes and everything crossed that he is ok.

Too stupid to reply to, the answer was 'do you know what an investment is?' which explains what happens when money is allocated into a project by either a financial market, a private investor or a government. But if thats not enough for you, just pose the same stupid question at a large investment bank putting money into high tech Taiwanese stocks, do you then say, what happens when they stop chucking money at this market and turn the taps off? No, no you dont.

Its basically a clunky bright fluorescent orange Fisher Price concrete breezeblock designed for spanners. I cant BELIEVE how shit it is.

Renton's NHS

Come on be fair, he comes up with a new hobby every week and imagines what he has said on the economy since 2010 on here was right....

Only Obama and Gordon Brown knew what they were doing economically, both were foiled politically. Both introduced a fiscal stimulus which explains the upward economic trajectory of both economies in 2009. Whats both fascinating to me and also incredibly frustrating that every morning on CNBC, Reuters news etc all the analysts are discussing the fiscal cliff in the US. The fiscal cliff refers to 2 acts in the US which come into effect at the end of this year, one law mandates an end to tax relief and the other to decreased spending. This is designed to cut the US deficit over 10 years. Except whats got all the analysts agitated and is sending equity markets into extreme volatility is the fact that this will cause a recession in the US. So lets look at this really simply and carefully. In one place you've got people saying we need to cut spending and reduce the deficit, fine. Then you've got people saying we need to return the economy to growth, which everyone now sees is more important. So some people suggest that we keep spending, to which the analysts, the markets, the right wing think tanks, the politicians say 'thats old thinking, spending more wont grow the economy (a heavily ideologically driven statement but you dont have to know that to pass grad school). Now look though, this spending mechanism which doesnt work when you increase spending MIRACULOUSLY is going to work in reverse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_fiscal_cliff Just hang on a minute, either government expenditure has an impact or it doesnt, it certainly doesnt just work one way. Thats a whole financial sector who on the whole cant even see this basic contradiction. The world is mad.

Dont lie to yourself CT, you said you have been talking about managed decline for ages, you havent. You and i were discussing whether the new government's plans would improve the economy, you said they would, i said that it would lead to a double-dip recession. I'm not talking theories, i made a clear simple prediction based on 25 years of studying economics. That prediction was 100% correct. You dont know what you're on about so am not going to engage in counter-factual political scenario analysis with you, just wanted to say 'no, dont lie to yourself, you were claiming the cuts would lead to growth'. Dont worry, you're not alone in thinking that a confidence fairy will arrive and increase private investment, i didnt think that, i knew the sources of this ideology in the history books of economic thought and could see that the people predicting that the private sector would drive the recovery didnt really understand the context in which that prediction was made (nor which decade). Just trying to keep you straight mate, nothing worse than deceiving yourself you were right all along when the very exact opposite is the case. Stay on your toes.

Are people missing him or something?

No you havent, i told you that the new government's austerity plans would send the country into a double-dip recession, your response was first that it wouldnt, when you didnt follow my explanation of why it would you then came out with 'maybe a double dip recession isnt as bad as people are making it out to be'.

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