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Medium all the way. Best of all worlds .

Same here ideally. However, if no-one had done any research on it, would we have known about it? Probably not unless we read the T&Cs (99.999999% probably don't - I don't have any hard statistics, but who's read 35 page T&Cs of any electronic product in detail?). This is the issue with big corporations. We have no idea what affiliations they have with certain governments/authorities over the world. We can only assume it's only for research data they need to improve their products as stated in their T&Cs. Hopefully this will get them to at encrypt the data in future if they're desperate for the data. I do have to take TechMonkey's stance and agree the whole issue gets blown out of proportion when certain media journalists get hold of this sort of thing. Especially against Apple. It's like they're only company that make mobile phones .

Thanks for posting it. That information above shows nothing as you say because it doesn't include the timestamps. As long as this data doesn't touch Apple servers, then I'm happy. With reference to Arthur's post, I'm not surprised at all. I'd be more worried as an Android user and they're a lot more of them! Google are much more hungry with personal data, and this isn't the first time either for them (Wi-Fi data when they were taking their street map photos). I'm sure they're collecting data while I use gMail too, but the sacrifice for using one of the best online e-mail services cannot be missed. As long as my iPhone/iPad geo data doesn't move, I'd be happy. It's just another typical Apple melodrama from people who like to dislike them and want to put them in flames. Especially when they're continuing to take market share and grow in popularity.

I'm not entirely surprised by this at all. I'd be pretty sure to find a similar file on Android/RIM/Windows Phone devices as well as I'd be sure the same or similar T&C's are there across the board. I'd love to know why it's there though. This article is great for anti-apple people though. Anything against them like this a huge bomb to them to reiterate their hate. If you were a criminal, you'd know this information already or wouldn't use an iPhone to start off with. I know I haven't done anything wrong or been anywhere I shouldn't of been, so I'm not that worried.

Very true. It's that thing where class sizes has a detrimental effect on performance depending on where the priority lies. If teachers are asked to push students who are behind in a large class size (~30), it will benefit them to catch-up but leave the students ahead to slip back and gives an average set of results across the board. If there's less students in a class, then it gives teachers more one-on-one time to push their ability to the next level. I always found being in middle set classes during GCSE (especially Maths), I always excelled because I got much more specialised teaching to my pace of work. As soon as I went up to the higher group (who could achieve As and A*s where the medium classes could only go up to B), I stayed where I was because I wasn't getting the level of teaching I needed to reach those grades and slipped back. Failure is the only way to recognise you need to work harder. That's been the case for me with my Autism and I'm now moving to work in the city for a new challenge. No doubt I'll trip once or twice, but it's certainly got me ahead of my peers who went through university.

We've stuck with it from 2006 and my only main two issues were the initial setup with clients (especially when we moved over to Vista/7) and version 9 (not 9.5) was terrible (and crashed an awful lot). A lot of corporates are still with version 7, but that retired at the end of last month. The console is extremely good now and logs things properly once you have the correct services open on all workstations (easily configured with group policy). I've not worked with any others professionally but I don't think Sophos is as bad as people make it out to be here. It is power hungry at times; but now we've gone through our next cycle, that isn't an issue. The basic fact is that they all have their pro's and con's.

Or MS have the noddle to make a tablet OS from scratch. A desktop OS is never going to win any hearts. The biggest issue going back to the OP; are there any education application writers making apps for the iOS devices? I know you don't have to install apps through the store as the iPhone Configuration Utility will allow to upload custom applications.

I just realised what I typed. I mean't, the iPad is naked (without a cover). Don't see bulging the size with a huge case.

Ditto. I can see why people don't always take to him, but it's his style and he's probably one of a bunch on radio at the moment that knows how radio works and properly present a very entertaining radio show. It's his radio persona and it works. I've not yet to meet him in real life yet but I've heard from people who have met him, he's a very nice chap. I always remember his afternoon shows from the early naughties and became a fan then. I got the sense he loved broadcasting outside of the breakfast hours as the reigns seemed to have been let go a bit. Well done to him though! £2,500,000 is a lot to raise in 50 hours! Especially when most of those are £1 texts. I think there's more time for him at Radio 1 yet (regardless the hysteria The Daily Mail seems to live on when reporting he's being replaced every 6 months - I'm sure Radio 1 put out false tips to DM journos to create a bit of publicity because they're gulleble enough to take it!)

Very true. I've not played with any Windows 7 tablets, but I have played with a touch-screen based Windows 7 desktop. I can't remember the manufacturer of the screens, but I didn't understand why they made the edge of the screen stick out so you couldnt click the corners properly? Very annoying when it isn't flush. We're possibly going down the iPad route as a trial with our prep school (infant and junior kids). We liked the 12 or 14 unit storage case as linked in a previous post. Going through all the infrastructure, there really isn't much apart from ensuring wireless is available in the areas you want to use them in. Our idea is to put them in the library initially and then locking them down. This is possible with the iPhone Configuration Utility. You can make quick changes by passwording the profile. There's an idea we'll setup a mini-web server that'll host these configuration files too so we can chop and change them. Personally, I'm keeping with my original iPad through the iPad 2 life and wait for the iPad 3 to drop . I love the fact I don't have to lug around my laptop everywhere in the house. I use it naked and keep it safe in a leather case. Nice to take around when travelling around. General web browsing, reading books, writing blogs etc; it's a very useful tool.

3G doesn't work across both yet. As CHR1S calculated, it's always worth buying the iPad on it's own with a seperate contract. All the mobile phone companies are doing is allowing you to subsidise the iPad over a longer period. I've currently got the original iPad on a 1-month rolling 1GB Contract from 3. I'll probably wait until the release of iPad 3 so I can at least pass on my original iPad to someone I know than sell it on eBay.

Why make up a conspiracy theory? That's hole is for the light sensor. It's not even big enough to house a camera CCD. No company designs things and then removes parts at the last minute. It would cost them more to modify a production line at the last minute. The original iPad was designed to test the market, so I guess the thought of a camera wasn't necessary until Apple saw the product was successful and FaceTime was becoming popular.

I'd love to know why you consider them not to be "premium products". Just curious really although I appreciate your opinion. When look at each angle for premium quality; the chassis' are top quality (how many chassis' are made of pure aluminium?) hardware is well ahead of the top consumer CPUs for PCs (I'm talking more about their Mac Pro desktops - I'll admit the MacBook Pro, Mac Mini and iMac's are consumer orientated and don't exceed spec against most of the PC market) although personally, the OS side of things is easy peasy top to toe. Considering my aunt who's an amateur computer user managed to put together and setup an iMac from scratch without my help. Even getting the iMac onto the internet and setting up e-mail. They're just a few examples, but the reason I think we're not seeing the desktops/laptops coming down in price is because they're making a fortune on the iPhone/iPad/iTouch and App Stores. There's no need to bring any price down and they have to bridge a gap between the PC market and themselves. Apple products are different and if you want one, you have to pay for it. They accept they won't be able to saturate the PC market and steal sales from Microsoft on an OS level. One more thing, even Samsung have just pulled plans for their 10" Galaxy tab in the light of the iPad 2. Key reason; pricing. If we consider Apple products to be premium, how can Samsung defend pricing their products £150+ more than the highest spec iPad. That's an estimate anyhow. But it's made the whole market rethink again for sure some thought the iPad 2 would go up in price.

Of course Google are going to tamper with the price of a rival product .

I would give an Apple Store a ring or the technical/or sales support line to clarify. I've seen that info go around the MacRumor forums and it's been done with the iPhone or iTouch before when people have bought the older product so close to the new release. Apple - Legal - Sales Policies - U.K. Retail Sales It's there in black and white under the "Pricing" section. What other companies do that?