foljs

We're so used to it now that the word iPad no longer conjures up Maxi-Pad-like connotations but it was a fair criticism and a good point.

Yeah, if you're 13 years old, and laugh at anything that can construed as a reference to bodily functions.

As if the word pad wasn't in common use for all kinds of other things without anyone laughing (drawing pad, launchpad, mousepad, and so on).

The connection also don't even register to 95% of the Earth's population, who aren't Americans, and don't call a product "maxi-pad".

Of course Germany doesn't back down. It's Ireland that's going to lose from Apple leaving its EU headquarters there, not Germany.

Like in all of the 20th century, Germany only cares about itself and its profit...

dblanch369 said:

Useless government intrusion.  Stop interfering with tech, losers.

Losers don't dictate terms. Winners do.

And we don't want some idiots in Silicon Valley to monopolize our content with their BS.

Just like we don't let our cops shoot us randomly just because they felt like it.

Here we're the home of the actually free. 

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Ok Europe is starting to invade companies business!

Much better than companies invading Europe... Besides, it's only if they want to tap this nice 500 million people market... Else, they can leave, and make sure to not let the doors hit them on their way out...

Makes no sense! And 30% is way too much!

Makes total sense. And 70% Hollywood BS is way too much...

Let me repeat this: the performance improveness ("battery smoothness" and so on) concern the OS and UI layers.

It's not like the CPU got magically faster for the benchmark code to run faster. 

It's the UI drawing + some APIs that have been made faster, and the useless "benchmarks" wont show any of this, as they just run some random benchmark code.