If only I could go back in time and buy Apple shares ! That or somehow have access to backdated options. Anyways I’d a millionaire as Apple continues to be one of the most successful companies in milking the customer.

And cause the week is Apple heavy there’s new shiny hardware. Including a multitouch magic mouse. Which I want.

That’s not all cause Nokia is patent suing Apple just because they can.

And in Democracy news, the 3-strikes law finally passed in France. I have a business plan. It involves becoming a “copyright holder” in France and then holding french ISPs ransom. Either they pay up or I disconnect all their customers. MUAHAHAHAHA (wait, did I laugh out loud ?). And that’s a winning business plan cause the European Parliament dropped amendment 138 from the Telecoms Package. That’s the one that mandated due legal process instead of suspicion. I’m looking for seed capital!

This is mostly repeat week cause in more Democracy news, a supposed leak of Sequouia source code shows evidence of election rigging mechanisms.

Oh yes, Windows 7 came out. Seems to be less crappy Windows ever. Kudos.

Nokia is hurting, specifically hurting €559M. The hurt is coming mostly from NSN without which they’d be posting net profit but the market quota keeps eroding anyway.

Speaking of hurt, SonyEricsson posted even losses. That comes with a 40% sales drop and well, more uninteresting phones.

If you run Microsoft Windows there’s no escape from MS suckiness. Yes, you get all the .NET virus goodness even you run firefox.

This is clearly the democracy we deserve. ACTA has been in review by 42 lawyers under NDA. And noone else.

The 2Q2009 smartphone market results are in. Nokia keeps steadily eroding, RIM made a nice come back and Apple had a huge leap year-on-year with the 3GS going from 2% to nearly 14% global share. The big loser ? “Others”. In terms of operating systems the obvious loser is Microsoft Windows Mobile with a 30% drop.

WinMo is putting the hurt on HTC as well as the poor folk who find themselves with WinMo phones for no fault of their own. And cause there’s not enough MS induced mobile suffering in the world, Microsoft/Danger killed all Sidekick backups. I guess MS just can’t acquire a major service without screwing up in the first months.

Adobe is bringing Flash to all smartphones. All, except the iPhone of course. That’s because the iPhone is getting apps dumped right from CS5.

Nokia keeps pushing ahead with Maemo5, this time the Qt port. Just one more nail in S60 I guess.

On you suck news, Sarkozy bootlegs DVDs when he feels like it. No news about Sarkozy kicking himself to jail yet.

People, believe me when I say this, BBC is being a devious genius about HD DRM thing. Yes, content owners want them to do it. No, they don’t want to do it. Yes, it’s trivial to work around and according to their letter to the regulator video isn’t even touched.

Nokia keeps taunting me with N900. Well not Nokia proper but the people who got SNES running on the N900

Geek delight: IT Crowd is coming back. Yes, this is the guys who predicted Facebook gobbling FriendFeed = FriendFace.