They're assuming that everyone has cheap, reliable, easily available broadband. Whether it be for movies, operating system downloads, or just everyday use, this is a patently false assumption. When the floppy was killed, DVD/CD media was an immediately available replacement for many, if not all users simply by visiting their local store. In this case, users are at the behest of other companies who do not have a financial incentive to provide service to many areas - let alone ensure reliability or access. This is before we even mention the picture & sound quality or the constant "rebuffering" waits. Yes, all you lovely people who loudly proclaim the death of physical media for downloading - many of us envy your ability to make that change. And before someone says "Well move to somewhere that it's available", I live in a major metropolitan area, top 25 DMA. The internet service sucks due to poor infrastructure, regardless of who you subscribe to. And let's not forget bandwidth caps. Downloading/streaming only is not yet a viable permanent solution.

Does not support or work on iPod Touch or iPad. Makes this app completely worthless to me. The rest of Google's apps support them...why the *$#( doesn't this?

Misuse & annexation of the word "geek" is changing its meaning in language, much like "gay" changed from the 1930's to present day. Discuss. (Either a new word will come along to take its place, or the geeks will reclaim it in time.)

I had a friend that worked for Sony Digital until recently. His former coworkers were all laid off and their satellite offices were closed with all of the work and properties folded back into their headquarters. It seemed like it had been coming for some time - they just kept getting non-committal answers about what direction they should have been going in, focusing on, or even completing. But since all the staff that was laid off locally were the people who maintained the SW MMO & TCG, this was only a matter of time.

Prepare to see "We have enacted a $1.99 monthly fee to allow us to comply with the disclosure and metering requirements in the "2011 Data Speeds Act" from the FCC.

Um...because TFA and the bill are talking specifically about 4G wireless networks, not your home provider.

I applaud this as an end user. The fewer idiotic plug-ins and crap I have to have installed, the better. As a programmer, between this and the vagaries around how things will be done with Windows 8, I'd be getting more and more irritated at the lack of clarity & communication from MS regarding where things are going. Training and coding isn't a cheap investment & there's not much of either that can afford to be wasted in this economy. Personally, I never had a problem with Silverlight. Unlike Flash, it never crashed my machine into oblivion while trying to load an ad.

And that was only around for about a century or so - and yet I can still go to the store and buy it. Books have been around for almost EIGHT centuries. And not to mention the fact that this digital copy thing is almost entirely constrained to a limited set of first world countries where the wealth and infrastructure exists for this type of thing. Regardless of how many doom and gloom stories like this pop up to get clicks and start fights in the comments, paper books aren't going anywhere for a hell of a long time yet.