*Sigh*. Fine. Then using the linked article above, they sold almost 8k out of 10k for 2011(not bad) but only 1.6k out of 60k for 2012. Any way you look at it the numbers are disastrous. To argue otherwise is sticking your head in the sand and ignoring reality.

Not too far. 3 months. The 2012 model year for the Volt started mid-2011.

http://www.edmunds.com/futuremodels/2012/

No, it's 8k out of 30k. You're totaling two years of sales with only the first year of projections. Out of the 20k they hoped to sell this year, only 1.6k have actually sold. HUGE problem there.

So you want the Justice Department filled with people who's moral base changes depending on who signs their paychecks? The RIAA has been proven to use underhanded and illegal methods to try and come up with "arguments to prove that people owed them money". So if you get on the bad side of the DOJ it's okay for them to use illegal and immoral methods to prosecute you? You want a bunch of Eliot Spitzer's over at the DOJ? In my mind this is very scary.

Exactly my thoughts. If I remember correctly, Microsoft makes much more money off Office than Windows, but they have to keep producing Windows because that helps maintain their grip on Office users. I'd wager that support costs for an OS are way higher than support costs for an app, even one as large as Office. If MS could drop their OS the company would probably be much leaner and profitable, but they can't do that or they risk losing control.

If Google was to release something, it would be smartest to release something that works on Windows, Linux and OS X. Let the support for the OS, where the biggest headaches come from, to someone else. That makes the most business sense to me.