Apple's not really ready to say it's sorry about the iPhone 4 antenna design, but it is willing to give all you darn squeaky wheels free cases for your trouble.

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As long as you pressed that save button, didn't get any error messages for your trouble, and your hard drive still boots up, that data is somewhere on this side of oblivion.

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Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that you'll be getting any discount for your downloading trouble, and only those in North America will be able to snag the disc-less versions.

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But why wait for your company to get in trouble and for the board of directors to replace the management team?

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But again, I think as I told Chip yesterday, I think if a pollster calls you, and you have been laid off and your wife has been laid off, and you're having trouble finding money to pay for college, your neighbor has been foreclosed on, I don't think it's surprising if they ask you about the Recovery Act that you're a little sour on it.

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The question I have for the prosecutor: if you thought your 5-year-old was choking or in trouble and nobody was going to help him, would you just walk away because the bus driver told you it was against the law?

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