Comments on: Monday Fun: iPhone Banned at the Gates'... but Melinda Might Want One?

By: Anti-Rene

Anti-Rene — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:54:10 +0000

Rene... Xbox's and Chu's and BlackBerry’s are not fine to use as plurals. You are fundamentally wrong in your assumptions about grammar. It makes you look stupid. (... It make's you look stupid. see?)

By: Torrie William

Torrie William — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:32:06 +0000

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By: TexasJeff

TexasJeff — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:16:52 +0000

sting7k Says: March 2nd, 2009 at 1:11 pm Lol, pretty funny. I wonder if the Gate’s kids get any flack from their friend’s who probably all walk around with iPods and iPhones. But then like was said, they might be walking around with prototype gadgets that are so cool and futuristic that everyone is jealous of them.

Nah, they just reply with "I can multi-task, change out my own battery, and can deploy my own apps without the undocumented approval process standing in the way."

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:13:30 +0000

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By: thenicksabin

thenicksabin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:14:33 +0000

I think about xbox being microsoft every time I get the red ring of death. (which is three times now)

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:15:10 +0000

I've never owned anything made by Microsoft. If Apple went out of business, I'd just live under an old rotting bridge rather than switch. It would be less nasty.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:54:23 +0000

I would imagine an Xbox would be fine with Steve. It's not like Apple makes a competing product.

Honestly, I tend to not even think about Microsoft that makes the Xbox as the same company as Microsoft that makes Windows.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:49:22 +0000

Xbox's is fine. As is BlackBerry's, and Chu's for plural form of the Chinese surname Chu. Not everyone agrees, of course, but language isn't science and if purpre can become purple, askion and aksion can become ask and aks, and iPhone can have a mid-word capitalization, we can worry less about how I apply an apostrophe in a blog post and more about the actual story, or do we need that special form of self gratification that can only come from trying (and oft failing) to point out nits rather than discuss subject?

And yes, a dude I be. See, in proper grammatical usage, Rene is masculine, Renee is feminine, gots it? :p

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:45:13 +0000

WinMo is so fcking inferior to iPhone OS..

By: Dave Bissett

Dave Bissett — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:51:35 +0000

All Gates family gets a Chrurro instead.

What to do with a Churro?

By: Stldirty

Stldirty — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:34:33 +0000

What's even MORE annoying is someone criticizing a blogger and being completely WRONG. Renee meant it as possesion not plural. As in the Gates' house. Where the apostrophe means it is the family's house.

Smh....

By: Ana

Ana — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:36:10 +0000

um....you know whats even more annoying? people complaining about the bloggers grammar.

If it annoys you so much start your own blog and please take all the whiners with you.

By: spook†

spook† — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:18:21 +0000

lol...uhm...I do believe Rene Ritchie is a guy

By: christomapher

christomapher — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:57:04 +0000

@Muero,

I'm glad that I am not the only one who gets annoyed at her grammar!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:15:28 +0000

Yeah, there are a few things on the banned list in my house. WinMo is the only one.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:11:56 +0000

Poor Bill. All that money and he can't buy Apple products, and he can't buy hookers.

By: Frog

Frog — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:02:38 +0000

Geez Bill. Your a flipping billionaire, let your wife buy an iPhone if she wants one!

Steve Jobs wouldn't buy his family a Zune, for the same reason most people don't - they suck!

By: Muero

Muero — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:37:35 +0000

Rene, please save this comment and re-read it before every post you make at TIPB:

Adding "apostrophe S" to the end of a word is not the way to make it plural.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:11:22 +0000

Lol, pretty funny. I wonder if the Gate's kids get any flack from their friend's who probably all walk around with iPods and iPhones. But then like was said, they might be walking around with prototype gadgets that are so cool and futuristic that everyone is jealous of them.

By: Ana

Ana — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:38:09 +0000

makes sense....he can't very well have his family being photographed with an iphone.

She could have kept that info to herself....she kinda but her hubbie on blast.

By: Blake 2

Blake 2 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:29:25 +0000

If I had that kind of money, there would be no limit to what I'd have. "Kids, you want an iphone or a jet?" "iphone...ok it'll be waiting inside your jet!"

By: iAirmanshirk

iAirmanshirk — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:24:31 +0000

hahahahaha. Take that bill