Marco Arment responds to a truly insightful commenter.

In related news, Verizon cares about its customers because the automated voice in the phone menu said so, and they really are sorry about this delay because of this truly unexpected volume of calls right now.

A Kickstarter for a folio for the iPad and the Apple Wireless Keyboard. I was wondering why no one had done this before. I think it’s hard to make a perfect case for this combination because they’re different lengths but this looks like a solid attempt and it’s really the kind of thing I was looking for. I’m in for the black leather because yachts.

(h/t Dan Frakes)

Flaw only affects people using FileVault but c’mon. Three months? I mean, I walked around with my zipper down for three months one time, but that was on purpose. It was performance art. The Stranger gave it rave reviews.

But this?

(h/t Jacqui Cheng)

Handy tip from Ted Landau for how to prevent Lion from bothering to ask you if you want to unlock a document (h/t Dan Frakes).

Trust me, OS X. If I’m editing it, I want you to unlock it. And no god damn collection of bits is going to…

I’m sorry. I’m sorry. It’s not about you. I just… I’m dealing with some stuff right now, OK?

I’m sure RIM’s new “You’re either in business or you’re not” campaign won’t be ironic at all two years from now.

The campaign web site is here (h/t The Loop) for your viewing amusement.

My brother the perfessor wrote a piece for the Boston Globe on the Asian space race. As the saying goes, that deal.

PCWorld’s Michael Scalisi in July of 2009, six months before the first iPad was announced.

This concept is such a train wreck from start to finish that I don’t know where to begin.

The whole piece is mind-numbingly wrong.

These market share predictions are pretty useless in general and this one is actually tame compared to others, having Apple still over 50 percent through 2017. But I wonder how even that’s going to happen given the current state of things. Apple owns the tablet market and the recent scuttlebutt has sales of the Kindle Fire, the one other tablet you could call successful, falling off. How are Android tablets going to come back? The sheer number of different kinds isn’t doing them any good. If selling them at a loss to drive media sales is only working marginally, what are Android OEMs supposed to do? How is Google going to get people to buy its “tablet of the highest quality” next month?

NPD has sales of Windows RT tablets being the bulk of Windows 8 tablets sold which rings true to me, but I still don’t see how these tablets really make a compelling case to buy one of them over the iPad.

I have been wrong about so many things that I can’t even begin to list them here (besides, they’re already on my Tumblog, fuckyeahjohnmoltziswrongagain.tumblr.com), so maybe I’m wrong about this, too. Probably, even. Grossly so. But right now it just seems like an act of faith to assume that Android and Windows 8 are going to take significant marketshare from the iPad.

Great. Now I’m hungry for iFong.