Posts by potatosalad

X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirate caged

I'm actually surprised

When the film was leaked originally, I thought it was all a scheme by the studio to get massive amounts of free publicity for a film that they knew was a turkey. Who can forget the heart-wrending clips of Hugh Jackman's angst that were endlessly repeated in news reports?

I never expected them to actually pursue criminal prosecutions for the leak because the trail would probably lead back to the studio.

Opera brings fondleslab-style reading to bog-standard web

To put the custom app developers out of business, Apple would have to actually implement it in the browsers on their tablets.

As this would remove any benefit to content providers selling an app via the app store, and eliminate Apple's 30% cut in subscriptions, this will never happen.

Apple sued for iPhone, iPad chip 'patent rip-off'

The lawyers aren't trying to prevent other people from producing the stuff that we DO want*. Apple are.

*Except in as much as they do what their clients (Apple) ask them to.