Chris Kite

I'd still love to know what the point of that scene was. Instead of having you masquerade as a terrorist and shoot innocent civilians why didn't they just have you capture or shoot the terrorists?!

It makes no sense.

I can say right now that when it comes to Chicago, I will be buying one. It has nothing to do with a lack of reception in my area. It has to deal with the fact that I live in a brick apartment building, and the living room is in the center. I get no reception. The second I step out the door it's perfect though. I don't blame AT&T for that.

Considering I don't want to or need to pay for a land line, I'm willing to fork over $150 one time to have flawless reception in my own home.

How does something like this happen? So just the displaying it on screen was the mistake? Why was the story written up in the first place?! How is that aspect being overlooked?

Hmm... who would've thought. I basically guessed this when this was announced, just not the specifics. The person who made the original claim had ZERO proof that the iPhone actually calls home, and had ZERO proof that the iPhone software had a feature in it to pro-actively disable applications without your consent.

Reporting at it's worst. The headline on Engadget, MacRumors, etc. made it sound as if this was proven and true. And we wonder why society is in such a state of panic all the time. Get your facts straight or at least be a semi-responsible writer and inform people your audience that this is SPECULATION, and adjust the title accordingly.

Seriously, is it that hard to be a responsible journalist? Is editing articles that hard? News these days is horrible.

Nowhere does the hacker ever say that he has discovered the device calling home. Nor does he say he found PROOF that the software can actually disable the software.

This could simply be a URL that the iPhone uses to discover if an app on your iPhone has been blacklisted, and alert you. There's no proof the iPhone every occasionally connects to the URL on it's own, nor is there proof that there is code built into the software to allow it to disable apps without your consent.

Update, was just at Oak Brook Center in Oak Brook, IL as of 6pm central. 2 hour wait still. Open till 11pm and they said they should have enough to last until they close.

I'm not sure how much Apple pays Engadget for the stuff they write but apparently it's enough. I'm not sure if everyone is blind or not the but Air is NOT an ultra-portable! If the Air is an ultra-portable then so is the standard MacBook because the ONLY thing that differentiates the two size wise is thinness. Otherwise the air is actually wider AND deeper than a normal MacBook. 1/2 an inch in height and 2 lbs does not make a notebook ultra-portable.