I totally agree with your rage, but the difference is Apple sells and always has to an extent on usability not functionality, and yes nokia, microsoft and what not have been selling smart capable mini devices decades before apple, but beyond the camera, no one with a life could use them.

75% of iPad Own Macs so you should change: "and hate the way their PCs work" to "and hate the way their Macs work", and since this is true, you should really replace "HP" with "MacBook*" since that's actually closer to the truth about the average iPad owner

Here: http://www.lexiconer.com/software/software/speech_software.html :)

This has been around for few years now on other phones symbion, windows, android by http://www.speereo.com/ Enjoy ;)

If all of the rest of the world managed to make better office products, then none of this would be relevent.

The real contradiction is that the people making the worst office products have allied with government IT staffs (read: unproductive burocratic waste) and have taken it upon themselves to decide the future.