MRBlue

A little too short if you ask me but once again Apple does a great job of focusing on the experience and not just about lightning flashes, crushing laptops down into tablets, being enclosed in alien space crafts or watching snowmen transform into red-eyed Terminators.

Again, the human element is what Google and even RIM are missing and forever remain in the shadow of Apple's products.

Typical fanboy of Android and/or Microsoft coming to an Apple-only blog to spout hate-mongering messages about Apple.

I would say get a life or go elsewhere to spew your insane rhetoric but I'm guessing you've heard it all by now and just choose to be a trolling prick.

Enjoy.

Apple recently opened up the API for local notifications but unless said API is still that simple then a concept like this is possible. My only concern is if some developers alter the notification system that would make a Notification app too rigid to design for.

An app like this suggests that all notifications would HAVE TO work through this Apple app and ONLY this Apple app.

Then again, Apple has such a choke hold on the industry that they could dictate a universal notification system that requires all instances travel through their iAlerts (that's my pet name for it) application.

Must be something wrong with their site 'cause it won't play the full episode. Oh well, the clip was funny and I'd love to see more but something's going on at SouthPark.com.

In Apple's case this is only good publicity. The fact that there's an Apple culture to make fun of suggests that Apple's doing well enough and has a devoted enough fan base to get digs from the funny men of South Park.

That put a smile on my face. Very well done. Hopefully the little misses appreciates the work he put in for that.

Love the Groundhog Day folder. Great touch.

That's J.J. Abrams but wow!!! She even got the name right?

Of course she was probably just mixing up the words and out came "iPad" and they probably just figured to keep it in there.

If Microsoft can trademark Word, Windows and Office then Apple should be allowed to have App Store.

The margin of error on any survey is +/- 3%. Since the survey's results only divides the iPhone buyers from the Android buyers by 1.5% there's very little to be concerned about here.

Even if the 3% goes Android's way I doubt Apple is quaking in their boots. 30% maybe, but not 3% and certainly not 1.5%. Also, how do you measure desire? I might desire a Ferrari but I can only afford a 2004 Intrepid. I might desire a Porterhouse steak but the Wendy's $0.99 cent menu will have to suffice. And I might desire Mila Kunis but I doubt she feels the same way.

However, once again the numbers don't tell the entire story. Legitimately there are only two iPhones on the market. The iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3G S. Anything before those phones may as well not even exist since you the only place you can probably find them is on eBay. So comparing two phones to the 8 billion Android-based phones in the market.

As I always say, if there were only 3 Android-based phones going up against the iPhone the battle would like astonishingly different.

$10 bucks says these idiots use Facebook and/or Twitter and probably check-in everywhere they go.

I have one hyphenated word for you "proof-read".

The moment you start bashing people for so-called literacy issues you'd better bring your thesaurus and consider typing your comments in MS Word for grammar correction 'cause that was a bit of a mess.

As for the topic at hand, I'm not sure why any government military branch would consider a "smartphone" for use in the battlefield. Don't they have radios with secure frequencies that provide insane coverage in what I would imagine would be deprived of nearby cell towers?! Why rely on (for example) Verizon's can-you-hear-me-now service for coverage in the desert to reach their fellow squad member?

I could see them using a tablet or something but even then why use a consumer OS to do it? Why not use a customized OS that no one else can manipulate but the military?! Even copiers today have custom written operating systems that aren't easily compromised or readily accessible.

Honestly, this news doesn't make me feel any safer. I hate the idea of a highly skilled and expertly trained solider, that can take apart a rifle in 10 seconds and is trained to kill anything that moves, has access to a device that connects with military servers housing tons of classified files and information. And yet that same device can play Angry Birds and monitor Facebook status'.

God forbid a terrorist finds out how to hack Android devices from a satellite and sends a rogue (you spelled it "rouge" which is a type of cosmetic) signal to our solider's "smartphone" sending them into a deadly trap.