"This cold war just got hot!"

That sad quotation of movie dialog comes from the Lost in Space remake, in case you were wondering. The movie does little to obfuscate it's rip-offs from Fifth Element (sad to see Oldman in both, BTW) but, also couples a great (except LaBlanc) cast with a poor execution of a sickly script. Fitting that shill-writers like Goldman continue to get away with regurgitated nonsense of the same caliber, while also being held as legitimate mouth-peices of the ASS.
Yes, the attack of the clones will have a domestic dent to carve out of iPhone sales, but people like Strand are one-in-a-billion, given the sales in countries like Japan and China. In Japan, the iPhone (between the 3G and 3GS models) make up half of the smartphone sales. This is a country devoted to technological development and an American company is dwarfing competition. Isn't this what we wanted to see? No, because USAToday, MSNBC, and others are bought and paid for by the shill kings at Apple's "rival" Microsoft.
Here's the deal, Microsoft and Apple aren't competitors in the strict sense of the word. One makes software, the other makes paired hardware/software which boasts it's rank as the best hardware manufacturer to run Microsoft's resource-hungery monstrosities. Apple is a high-end, near job-shop process hardware company with a position near-to-none in the high-end market anywhere and everywhere they decide to go. Ballmer, Strand, and other shills already devoted effort into sinking some of the most profitable ventures Apple has made into areas they had no previous foothold: the iPod was too expensive and would implode sucking Apple down the hole with it; the iMac was the same; the iPhone was the same; Tiger (OSX4) was the same; Leopard (OSX5) was the same; Snow Leopard, the AppStore, iTunes, etc, etc, etc...
Now, we have the Linux-based iPhone clones supposedly set to wreak havoc upon the iPhone. First, Goldman assumes that none of the rumors about developments (like innate VNC capabilities) are ture about the iPhone, then assumes that all rumors about the "better-than-free" Linux systems are true. Further, Goldman and co. assume that CromeOS and Android are not going to be marred in aesthetics and functionality by the adware making them possible. This is blind faith akin to Protestant hate-mongering. Really, Google (of which I am a fan) is an adware company, that's their business model, period. There is no speculation about it. That is the fact. Further, that is what they are basing their ingenious products on. Linux-based or not, the OS's in question inject ads, while Apple's OS does not.
Some of the (especially free versions of paid apps) apps on the AppStore use ad services (including Google's) to finance their development, but this is not nearly always the case. In fact, most apps for the iPhone are commercial and do not inject any ads. Surprisingly, the native Google-based apps are the same way, obviating from Google's model in preference to the then invested interest of Apple's model (which is not surprising,  in case the intonation was missed). But, now Google and Apple are split and continue to work together. How's the clone attack going to work when:
1) the most technologically driven markets around the world (including the American-made elusive Japanese) endorse the iPhone whole-heartedly in spite of their own companies' attempts to beat the product
2) the domestic attempts are grounded in a near-non-competative offering like Android and CromeOS
3) it took Apple's most direct domestic "competition" seven iterations to decide they were "serious" about making a somewhat competitive product, forcing massive subsidies from developers (Microsoft's Windows 6.1 "7" and WindowsMobile7 coupled with their per development-not per purchase- AppStore killer no one remembers the name of)
4) the iPhone has not, in spite of shill-driven media forks' hope, stopped development, it has continued
I hope this is making an impact on your personal purview, but I am already confident that the development for the iPhone will continue to combat any attempt for the Linux-based (and I do still love Linux, if not most of the self-important and rabidly-entitled community) OS to be held as superior when the evidence doesn't stack-up. I would ideally like to see an open and community-driven example of a functional process and business model, but that's the thing: it doesn't barely work without commercial mitigation. It likely never will and it certainly won't as long as ads are turning the internet and mobile internet into TV. That's the inevitable outcome commercial offerings side-step: you pay upfront and enjoy user-created and developed content at a higher price point, trading off the ads and such associated with monopolistically enforced commerce like Windows and Windows Mobile and TV.

Windows 7 was their idea

After Vista failed so utterly and completely to match the vaporware-hype that consumers bought into, Microsoft needed to distance itself from that fail and relabel the product as something else. The service pack, Windows7, was their idea and the ad campaign which pushes the concept as your idea is so completely offensive as to make it a racial slur. Seriously, would you stop and think about the caps-lock is cruise-control for cool ramifications a moment:

And this is what they think of us. The same company who edited an African-American out of an ad in order to boost sales abroad. They are unapologetically hateful of blacks, especially males and they want you to believe Windows7 was made with your interests in mind. Further, they think its as easy as making a mockingly thoughtful face (hand on chin) to make you believe they wouldn't be ashamed to admit the country of origin for their company is America and we're so fucking diverse it makes one's eyes bleed, even though they already made that elaborate and meticulous marketing decision. Nobody listens to an "all-caps" email, those are associated with zealots and twelve-year-olds. Using that reference on the only ad for Windows7 featuring a black man, "aping" a thoughtful look akin to mischief is so par for the course the NAACP should be breaking down Redmond's door with equally discriminatory and racially-radical protests and litigation.
First off, is anyone failing to recognize that Microsoft thinks you're all a bunch of doltish twelve-year-olds who think you did anything to determine the path Ballmer dictated to dig out of the Vista hole? Second, does this "blacks-use-all-caps" bullshit really hitting a cord? If it is than I have bad news for those of us who still think Dr. King was right. Maybe you really do want the above picture of a black male "aping" (again, in case this is right and therefore too subtle, "aping") a thoughtful facial expression, and the claim that he thought of Windows7, based on the premise that he functions on a level the internet (including the reduced "anals" of the web) holds as that of a pubescent child, to be the standard view of African-Americans in society. You buy this? You promote this? You like the idea of being a second-rate human being? WTF is wrong with people? From multi-national conglomerates down to individuals, you're willing to accept this as advertising and continue to pay for this image getting spread around as the future of blacks in the media, web, and minds of every major developed nation around the world. Great job. Dr. King must be spinning in his blessed grave. Because the sales of Windows7, until this racial discrimination is curbed and corrected, is promoting the above image as the way for Microsoft to continue to engage African-Americans as this:

Leadership issues

Call me Ishmotherfucker.
Why? Because your leaders are a fucking joke. You have sworn yourselves to a leadership which cares nothing about you. Their only concern is their re-election in 2-4 years' time. Is that the attention-span you were looking for? Is that the definition of majesty you wanted? C'mon you half-witted Amerifags, even you should have seen it coming...
Let me ask you about a few things... hopefully you've got answers, if not then maybe you should sign-up and join the crowd of angrylemmings? I don't think I'm the only one, in fact that doubt keeps me from the edge... it makes me have faith that in the greater order of things, that the movers and shakers will not stop coming, they will not stop questioning the nepotism and entropy of the current regime (right or left being the same).
So, let's talk about this: what difference do you think exists between one power-hungery despot (Bush) and another (Obama)? I only see political parties as the difference. Which is to say, I see no difference at all. factions are made to counter-act factions, but we have arrived at the point that factions are the same, regardless of ideals, they are the same in practice. Or didn't you notice that Obama has raised funding and productivity on the military, just as Bush did? Are you one of the blind horde? Talking a good game and doing it are two very different animals and Obama is, like Bush, Cheney, and Palin just another of the former.
The Al Gore of War is nothing more than a pale reflection of his predecessor. Obama has increased the military allocations. He has secured his friends' power by subsidizing their business. This is no longer a struggle of media ties, it is a question of personal freedom and the only good thing to emerge from the experiments in democracy: freedom of speech, freedom of life, and of the liberal pursuit of happiness. Obama, Bush, Kerry, et al, are power hungary dictators who will stop at nothing to choke-off these rights and assume true socialistic power.
And you will wait quietly for the stormtoopers to flood the streets before you'll do anything. Before you'll start throwing shoes and eggs? People should not fear their governments... governments should fear their people.