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Really? Come on, this isn't anything like the stealthy infections that are endemic with Windows. For example, anyone can write a script that will delete the contents of your drive. It takes a deliberate action on the part of the user to actuate it, as does this "malware". Frankly, if you are stealing software from online sources, what do you expect?

Actually, the Apple TV is a huge sleeper product, that right now seems to be in beta somewhat. It needs a little bit more to be as huge-or-bigger than the iPod. Overall, for what it does, it's great, especially when I ripped my entire DVD collection using HandBrake. The picture quality is as good as DVD. It's like a visual iPod for the home entertainment system with access to retail and rental movies. Plus it synchs my audio playlists and is a great DJ when having a party. But your right, it's a half-baked product. It needs a bunch of things, like: - a larger hard drive: I can only get around 60 movies on my available 140GB. Thats ridiculous. I don't want to leave my Mac running AND the AppleTV to have access to my entire collection. I want my entire collection available immediately. Lets have build-to-order option of larger hard drives up to and exceeding 1TB. Bigger if possible. - a bigger system buffer, preferably using Solid State memory: The thing has these pauses when changing between menus, movies, synching. It's a lag that tells me the product isn't ready for prime time. I can't imagine Joe Blow using this with these lags. - background synching: I hate seeing that synchronization screen. - auto-restore: sometimes, for no reason, the AppleTV gets unbound from my Mac. When this happens, the whole pairing and re-synching process starts over. Huge delay. I want to smash the thing when it delays me like that. The average grandma is never going to be able to do this over and over. - Digital TV tuner: OK, lets dump the stupid box and remote from the cable company one-and-for-all. What idiot designed the cable remote anyway? You need a PhD just to figure it out. Theres no reason why Apple can't make an agreement with Comcast, Armstrong, Time-Warner, et.al. and get the box to do all of the things that the Cable box does. - DVD/BlueRay disk: OK, sometimes I get a DVD that I want to play NOW. I can't unless I rip it. - Audio Streaming: where's the iTunes Radio? - Video Streaming: where's the iTunes TV (for free broadcasts). I know this doesn't exist, but why not?????? YouTube is fun, but I want broadcast TV stations from all over the world just like the iTunes Radio.

Lets face it, the iPod Touch is an OSX Computer, like it or not. And no one is saying that Apple has to support third parties, but they can enable them. I want to buy an iPod touch. I want to buy dozens of them to use them to replace the puke-inducing Palm computers that I use for on-street surveys. But let's not jump the gun. The Touch runs iPod software It runs Safari It runs YouTube. We need MAIL: There is no legitimate techincal reason to leave this out. We need iChat: Again, no legitimate technical reason to leave this out . And while Im bitching, open up the platform to third-party developers. OSX has protected memory, these apps can run in their own memory space without effecting the overall iPod functionality. This is a great product with huge potential. But it is still an intentionally crippled product.