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Wow. Slow news day Hadley? Or did you need the page hits to trigger the ad revenue check? Leaving aside the sheer stupidity of the question and the inevitable answer, if you can bear the searing pain on the retina to read the whole article (not that it's War & Peace), the point you're trying to make is what..? That Apple should concentrate on integrated apps that play well with the internet..? Are you serious? What do you think they've been doing since iTools was a free suite? Have you heard of iPhoto? Maybe you've tried ordering a photo album with it. It's easy. It uses the internet. Perhaps you've heard of iTunes. This even goes beyond the computer and it's OS and connects to a small computer called an iPod that can play music that you can buy from, you've guessed it, the internet. The point is not to say how important the internet is, but to say that Apple apps that use it, just seem to work the way you'd expect them to and have done for years. That's because of the OS they're built on. The OS is even more important now than it was before the home computer was connected 24/7 to the internet. Ever heard of Windows viruses..? Just using Firefox won't save you from them. And talking of Firefox and the OS, again Apple apps (Safari) just work more intuitively. In Firefox on the Mac, if you open a link in a new tab, the focus goes to that tab. In Safari, the tab opens in the background. Obviously, this is the correct behavior - if I'd wanted to look at the contents of that link right away, I'd have just clicked it to open in my current tab. The fact that I'm opening it in a new tab means I want to have it around to look at later. The OS matters, it really does.