I’ll give you the bullshit answer first. It’s great if Apple comes into the market. It reinforces our vision and will bring more awareness to what we are doing.

Now here’s the honest answer: Apple can suck a lot of oxygen from any space they enter. If and when that moment comes in our market, we will have to rethink some things. It could be a good thing by driving more openness of content, or like I said it could suck the oxygen out of the market toward Apple. And we’d have to fight for the remaining scraps.

Boxee’s Avner Ronen to CNET, responding to a question about a potential “cloud DVR” from Apple.

I’ve met with Avner several times over the years. He’s the man.

IMAGE COMICS: A Statement on Apple's Banning of SAGA #12 from Brian K. Vaughan

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For immediate release:

As has hopefully been clear from the first page of our first issue, SAGA is a series for the proverbial “mature reader.” Unfortunately, because of two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex, Apple is banning tomorrow’s SAGA #12 from being sold through any iOS apps. This…

Apple has a porn problem.

"Retina"

Apple:

The Retina display on iPhone ushered in the era of super-high-resolution displays. Its pixel density is so high, your eye can’t distinguish individual pixels. The images and words are amazingly vivid and crisp. Everything just looks so real. In fact, once you see a Retina display, you’re never satisfied with anything less. Yet it remains a feature found only on iPhone and other Apple products.

Actually, Apple is the only company that brands its display as “Retina.” There are plenty of other phone displays that have “pixel density so high, your eye can’t distinguish individual pixels.”