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The correct answer is that, under current conditions, which are highly unlikely to change no matter who is president, the job of assembling iPhones and iPads and other consumer electronics, is now done mostly in China by companies that specialize in manufacturing, and will never come back to the U.S. And that’s okay.

Galaxy S III owners, your wait for Jelly Bean might be nearing and end. Samsung just confirmed that all US variants of its flagship Android phone will receive an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean "in the coming months," though there's amazingly still no solid date at this time.

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RT @Techmeme: Microsoft Stores giving out Surface reservation passes (@malatesta77 / wpcentral)

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RT @Techmeme: Bitten: Apple's 'blasphemous' logo under fire in Russia (@ericcmack / CNET)

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The launch post on the Tapbots blog draws a direct link between the number of "tokens" a third-party desktop app is allowed to use and OS X Tweetbot's price. In order to send and receive tweets to the Twitter service, each copy of a third-party app must have a unique cryptographic identifier, or token, and Twitter has clamped down on the number of tokens being giving out. A token limitation is effectively a user limitation; worse, it's easy for users to consume multiple tokens by using multiple Twitter accounts.

As a long-term writer about technology, DRM, privacy and user rights, this Amazon example shows the very worst of DRM. If the retailer, in this case Amazon, thinks you’re a crook, they will throw you out and take away everything that you bought. And if you disagree, you’re totally outlawed. Not only is your account closed, all your books that you paid for are gone. With DRM, you don’t buy and own books, you merely rent them for as long as the retailer finds it convenient.

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RT @Techmeme: Judge steps down in patent lawsuit filed over Apple's Siri (@darakerr / CNET)

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RT @allthingsd: ITC Judge Says Samsung Infringes Four Apple Patents -by @JohnPaczkowski

RT @allthingsd: Apple Doesn’t Need a $200 iPad Mini -by @JohnPaczkowski

RT @allthingsd: So What the Heck Is an Apple Fusion Drive Anyway? -by @ahess247

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RT @Techmeme: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has plans for more hardware (BBC)

RT @Techmeme: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has plans for more hardware (BBC)