Can't happen soon enough. It's infinitely frustrating to load up a channel's Apple TV app, only to have to sign-in with my cable provider. I'll watch ads! I'd even pay a small subscription for certain channels. Just let me pick what show to watch and when. I feel like it's just these old media deals that are holding everything back.

If iTunes ran on linux that would be great. No iTunes on linux, no Apple music for me.

Fair point. I think Apple believes, probably with good justification, that there aren't enough consumers on Linux to be worth maintaining a version of iTunes for it.

And FWIW, a quick DDG search shows that people use WINE to run iTunes on Linux (though these results are several years old). So if you really want to try out Apple Music, it seems you can do so. But I wouldn't blame you for not wanting to go to that effort.

Ugh! It's such a shame companies like Twitter do this shit. I'll admit, twitter and facebook provide useful services, they really do, but it's all this sneaky invasive stuff that makes me hate it all. I know you have to make money, but this kind of behavior is going to be their downfall.

sigh.. yes, == can be weird. get over it. any php dev worth anything knows to use ===

Apple's app store is their walled garden and they get to do what they want. If you choose to develop native you get all that comes with it...

However don't confuse app stores for the rest of the internet. The web is still here, freer than ever. It's like the best app store ever: develop on any OS! no ratings and reviews! instant cross-platform compatibility!

I know, I know, there's money in native mobile apps (maybe... if you get lucky...). I think however it's time devs stopped salivating at the thought of winning the app store lottery and come back to the web - maybe our open field would get more respect in mobile.

"our goal was to enhance the experience for users". I've never needed help finding or discovering products, and I can compare my own prices thank you very much.

The apology always seems to make it worse.

Was just about to purchase a lenovo... although I would have wiped it and installed linux immediately this has caused me to look elsewhere. when will companies learn this kind of behavior is toxic to their business?

Unfortunately a very small proportion of potential customers are going to hear or care about this... it's about as toxic to their business as stepping in some stinging nettles is toxic to me.

I don't know; if this gets into the news cycle (which it should), I think it will be a huge problem for lenovo. The people buying one of these to run Linux likely already understand the implications and are reading about it now. The rest of the consumer base need only hear "someone can intercept your banking password" and they will take notice.

There has been an uptick in computer security related news stories lately. I think the tide may be changing, albeit slowly.

Unfortunately they have no competition in terms of a quality laptop to run Linux on. None of the competition offers similar features as my current x230 or the x250 I'm probably going to pick up later this year. If you could recommend a replacement that has a good keyboard, trackpoint, 12+ hours of real battery life, i7, etc. I'd be happy to hear about it.

unfortunately you're completely correct.

Another possible reason they failed - What a horribly, horribly slow website.

After reading this article I visited fab.com as I'd never visited before. Saw some interesting products, some I might buy, but loading a single page of items shot my fan speed up and froze the page for a good 7-8 seconds while what I guess is their javascript "enhanced" the page.

Awful, awful user experience. I couldn't last more than 3 pages of items before giving up. It doesn't matter what your product is if you annoy the hell out of your customers with badly designed technology.

I agree that it's completely rational to care more about your neighbours or family than people far away from you, but I don't think that this completely transfers to sports. You might feel good for a short time if your "home team" wins a game, but it really doesn't matter in any sort of concrete way. It won't have any lasting effect on your life.

Your neighbours or family or country succeeding could very well make a real difference in your life. I think those that dislike sports do so not because they reject preference or a sort of tribalism, but because beyond some short-lived feeling of vicarious success, sports are completely meaningless.

Mind you, so is a huge majority of entertainment...

Just because there are more important things to do worry about than one particular thing doesn't mean no one on earth should worry about that thing until everything else is fixed.

I really need to vacuum my car, but maybe I should hold off until we resolve the Ebola outbreak?

I'm not sure that example is the same, I'd say a better example would be "I really need to fix the giant hole in my roof, but maybe I should hold off until I find the perfect position of the pillows on my bed"

EDIT: But sure, the fact that there are other things to do doesn't mean no one should worry about anything else. I just feel like this is one of those things that doesn't really make any meaningful change, add any value, etc. Like I said, just seems like nit-picking. To each their own.