Good on Apple for being extraordinarily profitable. While it would eat in to that profit, Apple should seriously considering bringing their manufacturing to the states. $98B would go a long way toward building a [financially] sustainable infrastructure for US manufacturing. Do it now!

Man do i ever disagree that firefox has officially lost the browser wars. As a web developer I rely on Firefox as my browser-of-choice because of its independence from any corporate interests. I appreciate Safari and Chrome from the standpoint they're willing to push the envelope with early adoption of HTML5 and CSS3, but they are not practical development platforms for the same reason. Add to that the proprietary funk that Apple and Microsoft throw into their browsers along with Google's "all your surfing habits are belong to us" mentality and I'll stick with Firefox. On a personal note they've earned my support for coming out swinging in the early days, for taking on Microsoft when no one else would, and for committing to standards and cross-platform dev.

Agreed. In Wisconsin our Governor has the power of line-item veto -- and we recently had to vote on a Constitutional Amendment to redefine this power. The problem? Governor's have been creating so-called "Frankenstein Vetoes" by stitching together words and phrases to form new phrases. Giving the President this type of power (although the Presidential Signing Statements are perhaps a picture of what this could look like) is inconceivable.