The iPad was perhaps compromised in its development by the too costly pricing right now of one major component that would have made a big difference in how it was presented to us, and so we didn’t get an OLED screen that would have provided for less eye-strain when reading e-books. It was also compromised by the fact that Steve Jobs caved in to relentless pressure going back at least two years to produce a tablet computer, when his every instinct and conviction told him ‘not yet’. He should have listened to his own self.

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Apple has today insulted the UK’s entire gay and lesbian community by giving away homophobic cinema flop of the year, Lesbian Vampire Killers, as part of its ‘12 Days of Christmas’ iTunes promotion. The film was universally panned upon release, not only for being anti-gay but for being badly scripted with piss-poor acting. It was an appallingly stupid decision on the part of Apple to do this.

This is more than crap. It’s an idea that should have been dropped as soon as it was thought of. Giving away extremely offensive rubbish works against the marketing aim of getting more people to use iTunes to buy stuff.

It’s not a stretch for anyone to wonder, what other stinkers await paid-for discovery in the iTunes Store?