Just FYI, we have very, very few toll roads here. The only two I know of are the M6 toll road, and the Dartmouth bridge and tunnel.

The PowerPC binaries have little to do with it, the bulk of Mail came from the various localisations. The reductions also come from resolution independent vector graphics, as well as more shared resources.

Hi, UK. Just so you know, you are not going to get any of my tourist dollars.

That's OK, dollars are pretty much worthless now.

@DNL2BA: Except that the licenses on most typefaces do not allow for distribution, preventing embedding.

We don't have Amazon MP3 store yet. If it's not DRM free on iTunes or on eMusic, your only option is bit torrent.

What the hell? He should have laughed in their face and asked to leave. If they prevented him from leaving, sue them for false imprisonment. What an idiot.

That looks profoundly uncomfortable to use. Thankyou, Sony, for form over function.

The MIMvista program (Medical Imaging Viewer) they showcased in the WWDC keynote would seem to violate this clause of the SDK.

The program demoed was not for emergency use, it is basically a data access program. What the agreement is talking about is an application with, for instance, direct control of a defibrillator. Do you really think Apple would have demoed an application which broke the agreement?

My dog has no problems with my Roomba. He was worried by it at first, but now mostly ignores it. The only time it bothers him is if it runs into him.

Is it possible that Apple's restriction is not on the development of navigation software per se, but on the creation of navigation software which works by spamming an Apple maps server via API calls?

I suspect not. The iPhone already has rudimentary route guidance via the Maps application, and navigation software which used the map functions in the SDK would essentially be a recreation of that. Third party software would have to write a new their own code to improve upon the Maps application, and would probably therefore not use the Google maps database, as the Maps application does. I think this policy is to block legal action, if an iPhone were somehow implicated in an accident.

Teaching germ theory would be in the category of things that would get you burned at the stake.

Thankyou Boing Boing for injecting this lovely image into my RSS reader. Maybe in future you could keep this kind of thing below the fold?

'Real time route guidance' is forbidden by the iPhone SDK agreement.

Yes, but if didn't have the measurements to hand, you might choose the MBA over another laptop if you thought it was thinner.

Our British society is quickly becoming very child-phobic. At the same time as being terrified of strangers, in case they turn out to be paedophiles, we also victimise teenagers, who are merely loitering in public, because they have nothing else to do. Will building these loiter proof steps help? No, it will make the teenagers hang out somewhere else.

Mac stability seems very variable between hardware. I have a now extremely underpowered Core solo Mac mini. Although applications often freeze, they usually recover, and I only encounter a system crashing error every few months. Slow but reliable.

You mean 64 GB. 8 bits in a byte. I suspect he meant MB.

That's the most tasteless thing I've ever seen.

Damn, I pay 10p per text.

Not all of us can afford to fly half way round the world just to buy a new gadget. I think calling anyone unable to live your lifestyle a moron is a little harsh.

I thought this was to do with Chinese manufacturers using MP3 decoders without a license, rather than being knock-offs per se.

All question of olympic corruption aside... I have a very hard time imagining the chinese government going along with this plan, given their view of the man in question.

It's not their torch, I don't think they have any control over it until it enters China. For the record, I think this is a great idea. I'd love to see this happen.

Maybe it's possible some people DON'T LIKE MICROSOFT.