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Fox News? Really!!? Did Microsoft forget about its partnership with NBC...you know, MSNBC!!? Or are MSNBC's ratings so bad they have to get another news organization (a corrupt and biased one at that) to represent news on the 360?

Odd choice but not at all surprised by this move. TV is the belle of the ball and everyone's trying to marry her so no one else gets in. Apple is clearly the favorite to actually do something with TV but I have my doubts that even they can make it happen at a price people can afford.

Nothing worse than missing a product release based date you fully control.

After seeing Siri for the iPhone 4S, where it's more conversational and uses more logic to understand your voice commands, shouting basic commands like "Xbox. Play" just seems silly and elementary.

With so many limitations I don't see this taking off. All this talk about how it will "change everything" is nothing more than empty marketing lip service.

The fact that there are dozens of cable/satellite providers that don't offer HBO Go or ESPN3 will be enough to keep a lot of Xbox owners from enjoying any of these features.

Doubt this'll move many Kinect units. I regret ever buying it.

I wonder how the competition will react? Has to be a little disheartening when your competitors products are breaking ground in several industries and the word is getting out that Apple is the product everyone wants.

Schools, airlines, the FAA, hospitals; seems like we're hearing stuff like this on a monthly basis about how the iPad and/or iPhone is being implemented to take over a paper workflow or solve some other workflow problem.

Go Apple!!

I got two words for you, "THANK GOD!!"

Hopefully no one else even dreams of picking this up and just let's the project die a much deserved death.

Or, at the very least, they can release the film but take away any reference whatsoever to Uncharted.

Now, someone call J.J. Abrams to a REAL Uncharted film. We'll need Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Bell (or January Jones), J.K. Simmons (or Jeff Bridges) and Penelope Cruz. Would also like to see Jerry Bruckheimer producing and the writers from Abrams' Star Trek or Mission Impossible 3.

Great news. Jobs is the master of presentations. Sure he uses the same words over and over again -- easy, simple, elegant, awesome, etc -- but when Steve says it, you believe it.

He owns the stage and when he brings people up to talk about apps or whatever all I keep thinking about is, when is Steve coming back?

I posted this someplace else (can't remember where) but my take on this is that if Microsoft can trademark generic terms like Windows, Word and Office then Apple should be allowed to use App Store.

Does anyone really think that Amazon is battling this out in court because of some noble cause to keep generic names safe from big companies? Of course not! They understand the purchasing power and brand name recognition of the name/term App Store. They know Apple will never drop the name; they have too much invested so Amazon can just ride the coattails of Apple by using the same name.

If it was easy for Microsoft and Google to come up with other names then Amazon could easily do the same. Mobile Marketplace, Amazon Bazar, Amazon Emporium, whatever. But no, they want "appstore" because they understand the leverage of that name.

Nuance also owns arguably the most powerful OCR engine in the world in OmniPage, which could have other implications such as the iPhone dictating emails as well as OCRing a document after taking a picture of it. You could then copy & paste the text into anything else or creating a new document with some of the copied text.

It's also possible the Nuance deal will have larger implications on Macs in general now that Apple is working on blurring the line between iOS and OS X.

Microsoft already tried this with the Laptop Hunter campaign. I'm sure it worked and in this economy people are looking for the cheapest way out for most everything and for most they don't see the value in a Mac so they just get what's cheaper.

Chances are most of the value of what can be done on a Mac versus a PC would probably be lost on the average consumer 'cause all they see is the numbers and obviously Windows machines will win that battle nearly 100% of the time.

But like I continue to analogize, you can buy a Honda Civic and get to work, pick up the kids, get to the theater and the grocery store and ride in comfort. But that doesn't make a Mercedes or a BMW overtly expensive.

It's only a matter of time when Google and their partners start using "WE HAVE MORE APPS" as a selling tool and Apple's response will be to continue to push the idea that more doesn't equate to better. And they're right on every front.

Like a game of UNO, less is better. And Apple will win this argument because they'll focus more on how the apps that they do have are actually being used in environments that make an impact on the (and I'm borrowing this line from Tron Legacy) human condition resulting in changing people's lives.

And there's always the iTunes argument. No other platform has such a seamless eco-system that gives you a central location for apps, music, podcasts, movies and TV shows.

The market has grown and at the same time Apple has grown up. They're not interested in talking about speeds and feeds, but rather what makes their products so much more "magical" and different from anything the competition is doing. Meanwhile the competition thinks the way to our hearts is by showing snowmen turn into robots, lightning bolts shooting out of phones and tablets that transport us to an alien world complete with escape pod.