I'm holding out until Wascally Wabbit is released.

Verizon's the first, but watch Google and others to follow now that it's mainstreamed. We're all going to get put into consumer categories based on our online activities:

sports fan, shoe fetish, gear head, porn enthusiast

These will match up to categories of products which we will then see repeatedly everywhere we go until we get so paranoid we buy them just to feel normal.

It's like minority report, but as a for-profit business instead of a pre-crime intervention.

Moses did come down from the mountain caring some curiously rounded corner rectangular tablets after chatting with God. Moses was the first one to steal this idea.

Lots of phone makers were making phones that had Java apps on them before the iPhone. Most of those apps were garbage, though, and seemed mainly designed to provide the carrier with more cash.

So when it comes to smartphones - maybe "smart" refers not to the phone, but to the phone's owner. As in, they were smart enough not to buy a phone filled with those crappy Java apps.

Touch screens also have poor conveyance of intent.

You touch the screen - and that's about it. You can't hover with your fingers and then choose to click, you can't convey different intent (right-click, middle-click, other mouse buttons etc.) easily.

You also can't see what your clicking while you hold onto it if it's right under your finger.

While I'm sure the touchscreen has a bright future, the significant of the interface is currently being overstated - all the "cool stuff" ultimately will come from pairing touchscreens with other devices including traditional things like keyboards.

I believe you've hit the nail on the head. This is an iPhone concentric view point.

2 gig of RAM to type a letter

I'm reminded of the rotary engine, used in some WWI aircraft. The crankshaft was stationary -- attached to the plane's firewall -- and the entire engine block, including the cylinders, rotated around it. (The propeller was attached to the engine block.) In this way, no flywheel was necessary (the block was its own flywheel), saving weight, and the engine was cooled naturally, by the air flow over the moving cylinders. I don't know how the engines were balanced.

In a similar manner, the Sandia Cooler moves the heatsink through the air, rather than the air through the heatsink. It's solving a different problem, but I've always been fond of contrarian thinking like this.

Considering that Larry Ellison is buying himself a frikking island, perhaps the slap in the face finally pushed him into super-villainy...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/larry-ellisons-island-ora_n_1614130.html

100% as fast would be 1.0x. They said 100% faster, which is (x + 1.0x)

Making Android look like Windoof is about as "cool" as sprinkling dry dogshit on your cappuccino.

Don't forget we should be teaching biblical Pi instead of heathen devil math.

Clearly Pi = 3 Sinners.