Really? Are you proud of yourself for being so loyal to Google? Maybe you should try searching on Bing. Maybe you should try developing for the iPhone. Maybe you should have cashed in on your Bing dollars. But most of all, maybe you should stop patting yourself on the back for being so closed minded and get outside for a little while....without your Google Android phone. Here's to wishful thinking...

"A Professional Perspective On Apple's Retina Display" I thought everyone who puts words on the Internets was a professional....seems redundant

But isn't the whole gist of the Android argument on /. that you can download, compile, modify and install it yourself? That's what the whole iPhone is closed/Android is open argument has been for months. You already have FroYo if that is true.

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Why, why, why must every article mention the iPad/Apple? Can't any of the Linux/MS fanboys of the world find anything compelling enough to actually stand on its own? In other news: - Some BP employees helping with oil spill wrecking the Gulf enjoy using iPads - The massive sinkhole that isn't a sinkhole in Guatemala happens to be within 100 yards of an iMac - AMD's Fusion Processor Combines CPU and GPU (won't run iPhone OS 4.0)

Amen and well said. It amuses me to no end seeing the comments from people who have never developed for a mobile device saying fragmentation is BS and desktop has been dealing with it for years so it's no problem at all. What a joke. Try developing an app where: - there may or may not be a physical keyboard - the screen resolution may or may not differ - the screen aspect ration may or may not differ - the screen DPI may or may not differ - the camera may or may not work (or exist) - the RAM could vary wildly - the processor could vary wildly - there may or may not be multitouch - the screen may or may not be of decent enough quality to accurately and quickly detect touches The list goes on and on and on and it will only get longer over time. I just cant wait until there are tablets of every conceivable configuration and OS version on the market. Even then there will be my good buddies commenting on how "fragmentation is FUD".

Tablets have been running full OS versions for years and they failed. Two thumbs up for HP figuring this out and moving forward with a proper touch based OS on their tablet.

WTF? Linux extinguishing something? Beating Redmond at it's own game? What game might that be? The last one is the best of all: the comment isn't talking about new Windows builds, it's talking about Linux builds that aren't gonna happen. It ALREADY works on Windows. *head explodes from ridiculous comment*

Seems silly to cite iAd as a competitor when it will literally only ever be allowed on iPhones where in Googles case they will push add on any and every phone.

*sarcasm* Are you trying to say Microsoft doesn't innovate every single time they incrementally update Office? Are you trying to say Microsoft doesn't innovate every single time they incrementally update Windows? Are you trying to say Microsoft doesn't innovate every single time they incrementally update SharePoint? Are you trying to say Microsoft doesn't innovate every single time they incrementally update MSSQL? Are you trying to say Microsoft doesn't innovate every single time they incrementally update Visual Studio? */sarcasm* They have something I could only dream of at MS: all they need to do is add a few things, fix a few bugs and increment a version number and they will automatically make droves of money from it. Innovation they do not have. I don't even remember the last time they took a risk and released something totally new. It sure wasn't Office, it sure isn't the *new* Hotmail and I'll bet my life on the fact that it won't be Office 2012.

WTF? Cydia runs on the iPhone man. And the jailbreak (depending on which one you choose) is a one click operation from Mac or Win.

Just out of curiosity, have you downloaded android OS, modified it and installed it on your incredible? What have you done on your incredible that can't be done on the iPhone due to it being open? Not trying to flame here, Im just curious...

Ummmm....they actually ARE banning all dev environments other than .NET (silverlight) on WinPhone 7.

The mere fact that the iPhone/iPod/iPad are a success is a pretty damn good indicator of the following: - People (Consumers. The 99.999% of actual humans on earth that aren't geeky ass, linux using, slashdot reading nerds) don't give a flying fuck about 'open' platforms nor could they even define the word and how it relates to their phone/mp3 player. - Flash must not be THAT important if these devices have done so well without them. The fact is that if you really think you need to have an 'open' product choose one with your dollar bills and stop trolling the internet looking for Apple stories to bitch about. If you don't care about your devices being open then buy the device that you like best and enjoy it.

So....what you are saying here is that you don't want native applications anymore. Instead of native Windows apps and native Mac apps and native Linux apps you would rather just have everything be made in Adobe AIR? Thank fucking god you aren't the one making decisions that matter....