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Is there anything recognizable left to recover from a ship that eventually hit >100G for however much fuel his drive had?

Too many marijuana pill injections. Snorting that shit does a number on you...

It makes sense that Apple corporate would be more relaxed, but I feel that a sense of direction was lost on his death. Don't get me wrong, Jobs was almost tyrannical in his desire for whatever vision he had, but there was strict quality control in design over at Apple. Now, we have crap like the Watch, which looks like some amateur looked at a 1st-gen iPhone's shiny curves and decided that that would look good with Apple's current lineup and shrunk it down to size. I'd mention the new battery case but that is way too easy to pick on.

Have you ever had someone who completely FUBAR'd their device (crushed and water damaged beyond recognition) and tried to get it fixed somehow?

I'm asking because at the phone repair place I worked, I got a guy who ran over his iPhone 4 with his truck and left it in the rain for an hour. The metal frame was bent so badly I needed a mallet to tap out the rear panel. He insisted that we try to recover his data, and obviously, no dice.

I doubt that Google will truly move into hardware, at least with existing devices IE tablets, phones, etc. simply because it will be entering a market that already has many companies producing phones on their software, such as Samsung, HTC and others. Apple on the other hand is the only company that designs and sells iOS devices. Google's most cost-effective bet will be for new technologies that aren't already saturated. (Yes, I know Google has some phones, chromebooks and tablets, but they're not gonna shake up the market any time soon)