Packeteer

Well, when someone refers to states, they mean the 50 US states if they are speaking of US law, otherwise they would refer to it differently. Moving on.

Except he didn't say "state", he said "states" which does mean the 50 states that make up the US.

I think so too. Regardless of the idea that Cobb let go of his wife and reunited with his children or not, that ring symbolizes the intent to the viewer with much more directness.

Using the ring as an indicator allows someone to nit pick that he may be wearing the ring in that scene and that something happened between the airport and the car ride home.

Using the fact that he didn't care to verify solidifies the real result... he's given up fighting.

Except the parent is wrong, the federal government limits states in matters of commerce, the bulk of which would be conducted interstate, not intrastate.

States cannot limit the prosecution of commerce outside itself. It was an attempt to limit state rivalries, such as Texas telling Other states it had to pay a premium to use its ports.

Apple provides a solution that is a single unit, hardware AND software that is tied together. Think of it as a car, the whole thing is purchased at one time, functions entirely on its own from end to end, but you can add features to it.

The alternatives are allowed, but you are buying a singular device, not a platform for other developers per se, it just happens to allow developers to create software for it.

On the other hand, you have Microsoft which has historically been a platform software solution, building a culture of allowing anyone to build on it, licensing portions and features to developers for them to build on. Until recently, there was only tepid attempts at hardware branded Microsoft where as Apple has always been hardware bound to software to the point you can't easily install OSX on anything other than Apple hardware. The same cannot be said for Microsoft, the only other company that is bound by this rule of multiple defaults.

That rule came about because Microsoft had licensing rules that prevent devs from using MS software on their own hardware if that hardware included competing software. If you wanted to use Windows, you HAD TO use IE only. Microsoft was using monopolistic practices, but did not have a monopoly btw.

In a nutshell, Apple is selling a singular device that happens to have a doorway that allows users to install addition software to expand the hardware/OS beyond its default intended (by Apple standards based on analyzing the user market) purposes.

Other alternatives are hardware solutions that allow your choice of software as middleware to gain access to the hardware functionality. Two hugely different ideologies.

One is a fork, the other is build-a-bear.