Daniel

I'll only buy if there's some way of watching Hulu on it. Otherwise, not interested.

I don't see the big issue. I don't exactly get that great quality out of Netflix Instant anyways, as the fastest home internet connection I can get is just under 2 MPS. So I can't get it in HD on any service anyways.

All I really use Netflix Instant for anyways is watching TV shows that I didn't see the first time, like Friday Night Lights for example. If I want to see a movie in HD, I put the BluRay on my queue and wait a bit longer. Not that big of a deal.

Just make sure to post the honeymoon video when that is leaked.

I don't think the genre itself has peaked. I think what has peaked is the formula that the genre has followed since the first Guitar Hero

Playing Simon Says on a chart of Playskool notes is getting tiresome. Harmonix and Neversoft have got to find a way to put improvisation and more true to life musical creation into their games. I have a handful of my absolute favorite songs on my Rock Band games, but even they are growing stale. After you've played it so many times, there isn't anything new to the experience anymore.

What the genre needs is a way to make the experience new and fresh every time. No good band plays the same song the same exact way at every concert. Playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band is like re-watching the same concert over and over on DVD. What I want instead is to experience a different show every time I play.

What if I've been both?

I downloaded the demo of Clone Wars: Republic heroes a few weeks ago. After playing it for a grand total of two minutes, I immediately deleted it from my hard drive. Love the TV show, but that game was absolute crap.

I'm a pretty big U2 fan, but I'm not going to pay $60 for a U2 Guitar Hero game.

Their catalog is simply not suited for this medium. There's a handful of rock driven songs that would be fun to play, but around two thirds of their songs are vocal driven with little instrumentals other than a few chords repeating constantly through an echo effect. They would be boring as hell to play in either popular rhythm game.

The only way I'd buy any U2 songs to play is through DLC.

As a casual fan of the series, if the game is more than $60 here in the states, I'm not buying it.

While Jason may not have very good specific points, he does allude to some which are better.

No one aside from the most loyal Apple apologist will deny that Apple forces you to play inside the bounds of its box. You organize and categorize photos in the way that iPhoto demands that you do, you organize music files in the way that iTunes requires you to, it goes on and on and it has essentially been this way since the Second Coming of Steve. Most people don't mind it because the rules of that box have been fairly logical and extremely intuitive.

Things got a little worse when Apple introduced the iPod. For quite a while, you were at the mercy of DRM. Not to mention that the only way of organizing the files within your iPod was through iTunes, nevermind the fact that there's been better software to do it with, or that the boys and girls on SourceForge and the like could have (and have anyways) come up with software far more capable given the chance. It's been annoying, but it seems as if it has been only the most snarky who've been extremely vocal about it.

But in the past few years, Apple has come out of the shadow of the "other guy" categorization. They now completely OWN the smartphone market. Yes, this is through consumer choice. However, AT&T and Apple have found power in this majority and are becoming more and more restrictive about what hardware owners can and cannot do with the product that they OWN. In fact, if you decide to take proper control over the device you've legally paid for and own and jailbreak it, Apple and AT&T consider you a TERRORIST. It may sound cheezy and hyperbolic to insinuate that there's a secret cabal of smoking executives sitting in a room deciding what you will and won't be able to do with your property, but that's essentially what really is happening. So much that Apple is forced to keep it quiet and play the "I can't discuss it" card with developers with valid points and questions.

So to answer Jason: No, Apple shouldn't be investigated for anything in the terms of their music business. But in terms of the iPhone, definitely.

GEEZ, you think you guys could have picked a better picture? Thanks a lot for ruining my breakfast appetite.