There's a joke at my alma mater: The Success Program that so many alums follow require them to drop out two or three years in. Which is funny, except that it's true. The latest: A classmate of mine who dropped out his junior year. He's now fronting a band that is selling out shows across the country.

It really just shows how much a joke college is, you know?

...And you haven't been shot at or bothered by police? Impressive.

Kyle, all you did was prove the point by being a zealot. What we're asking is not a freaking development timeline. Just an announcement that this release is happening, say, a couple weeks or so in advance. It's obvious they've been working on this, so why not let us know? There need not be an Aluminum and Glass Curtain on everything Apple does. Not everything has the high-profile, high-profit-margin aspect that requires utter secrecy before being dropped like bricks.

I honestly want to give Apple the finger for this. They should have given some advance notice for this release, and they gave none. NONE. Not even the authorized retailers I'm in contact with knew about the release until about a day or so before it happened. Engineers I knew who were Logic users had to scramble so that they wouldn't lose clients. I know some people who bought Logic Studio 8 only a couple weeks before the release, some with academic licenses (so they can't return it), and they're pissed. It's a travesty that Apple did that. It's another kick to the curb for pro engineers.

@Yoshi1080: Ken Kutaragi (head of SCE) has made several comments stating that the Playstation is, upfront and center, a media center which just happens to play video games. He is disgusted whenever it is referred to as a game console.

Jobs may perhaps see the iPod touch under the same circumstances (as a media-player/mini all-in-one that can play video games, too), but rather unwillingly on the games part.

Ah crap, didn't finish that second sentence. I meant "Or is he still bitter over Bungie being bought out by Microsoft?"

That Jobs hates video games? Or is still bitter about Bungie's buy

Let's be real here, the Mac as a gaming platform has been utter bollocks. Gabe Newell of Valve has openly stated he would like to work with Apple, but there are several subject matters that Apple won't budge (Granted, Gabe was previously a M$ dev, and I'd like to know what he meant by that...but still). The vast majority of games nowadays are just PC games that have a Cider shell on top of them rather than developed natively (even Blizzard, long an Apple supporter, is moving to Cider). And Apple has offered no incentive for them to develop natively.

Either Jobs has taken the Sony approach (i.e., they don't see games as a quintessential element) to an extreme, or he hates video games.

Well...the thing is, EVERY OTHER MEDIA OUTLET is covering/hyping this phone. This is more keeping up than anything else. Not everyone can be Pitchfork/BrooklynVegan and ignore/bash stupid stuff (and even those guys are guilty of following stupid trends).

Can I just say how much of a spoiled brat you sound right there?

Not only does it say that tethering IS coming, but in no way is this a matter of "fair use" (how the hell are you defining "fair use" here? because clearly it doesn't make sense to the fair use I've come to understand, nor does it seem relevant) like you claim, but looks more like a matter of getting it to work properly on official level. I must say, at least they responded reasonably: Announcing, before launch, a timeframe of when to expect it after launch. You couldn't get that from Apple/AT&T, could you?

You've rushed to judgement, and you lack any sense of patience. Verizon has lots of problems, but you sound more like a brat who will kvetch at the slightest error. Go back to mama.

Bitching at pirates for piracy on the comments section of a gaming news site is like talking to a coffee table: Why bother other than to look like a complete idiot?