You shouldn't need to be an IT guru to upgrade your phone. A lot of iPhones owned by coworkers are never upgraded. When I talk to said coworkers about a feature they are lacking, I tell them go home, plug the phone in to your computer, iTunes will ask you to upgrade and it will. 100% of the time they come back the next day saying "Thanks, did what you said and it worked no problems." Can you tell a normal person how to unlock their boot loader, root the phone, download an unauthorized ROIM and install the update on their phone? This is what I don't get about the android fanboys, you need IT skills to operate android normally. Their arguments against iPhones are the walled garden, but with the same required IT skills I can jailbreak and avoid the walled garden if I so choose. With proper IT skills, iPhones and Androids are equal. Without, iPhones are clearly superior.

When I order a new Mac, I get it in about a week. The supplies are only constrained when they are about to expire a device and launch a new one. Less than a 1 month window. You can't build a factory and staff it for 12 months to meet demand for a 1 month block. That's simple economics. The original iPad had the supply issues for a couple of months, but that was a pioneering product that way exceeded expectations. I ordered 4 iPads 2 weeks ago, got them in 5 days. Doesn't sound like a problem to me.

No, It is impractical. I am responsible for the reliability of my 1,800 node network. I have 5 support staff to make everything run and test future upgrades. No way I allow personal equipment on my network, as I cannot maintain reliability with unknown mis-configured equipment on my network that I do not know about. But, let's just let you roll your own cell phone. You can reprogram the firmware change the protocols of the communications system, I mean what could go wrong, right?

Quit believing what other companies tell you. I don't care about the user replaceable battery. Why? Because in 3 years of using iPhones I've never run the battery down all the way. Not once. The fact that other phones "require" you carry a second battery is their problem, not Apple's.

And the shipper knows the value of the package how? The customer can lie to get out of paying tax. They would also lose insurance protection, true, but just food for thought.

Where can I preorder?

Its more about how you watch. Your eyes can shift focal point readily. The camera has 1 focal point. When you focus on a person in real life the surrounds to that person are a little out of focus, shift to the tree behind them, and the tree focuses while the person slightly de-focuses. In a 3D movie, when you shift your focus from the intended focal point, your eye can not focus the image, because the image itself is not in focus. This is what causes your eye strain. If you watch the 3d movie by only looking at the focal point, you do not have the issue. In other words, the 3D only works if you watch it like a 2D movie. Which is why I won't pay to watch anything in 3D. My brain already process the depth perception from a "2D" movie.

Their 4G is not LTE. It is HSDPA+. They can only call it 4G due to the regulations changing to throughput instead of technology. This is fine right now, but once LTE is readily available, their "4G" will be clearly inferior due to technological limitations.

I am an AT&T Wireless customer as they have good coverage in my area. Mobile to mobile and roll over keep me "loyal." I was initially against this merger, however I read some articles that changed my mind. First T-Mobile has no 4G Spectrum. All the 4G spectrum was sold to Verizon, Sprint and AT&T who acquired theirs from Nextel. The monopoly is created by the spectrum requirements, not the companies themselves. The government messed this up and T-mobile has no opportunity to continue competing.

It makes no sense for Sprint or Verizon to buy T-mobile as the technologies are incompatible. AT&T on the other hands needs more towers and they take time to approve. Acquiring them from T-mobile will speed up the deployment of more radios.

If you want true competition, the government needs to stop selling the spectrum, and instead pay for the infrastructure and let the companies all provide competing services over the same infrastructure. It does not make sense to force T-mobile to compete in a 4G world with 3G service.

But the Time Warner streams are not on demand, they are Live feed of the broadcast. Plus you have to subscribe to the channel on Time Warner to get the channel on the app. You also currently have to be streaming across a Time Warner cable modem for it to work. The viewership data would be easier to acquire than a traditional TV. Its a win, win, win and win!

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For $20 bucks your "wins" come down to programming, application availability and device compatibility. Personally I would argue the last two. The iPad can send files to any other device you want via e-mail, or programs like drop box. Sure you can't use a file browser to do it, but does it really matter? As far as applications go, those windows applications are not designed for mobile computing. Yes you can run Photoshop on your laptop, your 4 hour battery life also dropped to 2.5 while it's open. Find a task you actually want to do while mobile, and there is likely and app for it. Hardly stomped. In your opinion, in your mindset, for your purposes maybe, but not in the general sense.

And how much does an iPhone cost off contract?

Your netbook has a metal unibody frame? Your netbook has a 10 hour battery life while playing video? Your netbook has an IPS display? Your netbook is the thinnest netbook on the market?

For years this site has discussed the mantra of 90% of home users only read e-mail and surf the web. Out comes a device, the iPad, that is really useful for reading e-mail and surfing the web, oh and listing to music, watching video and reading books. Yet the IT tech "gurus" still can't figure out why they sell well. I mean no one needs one!

The truth is, every household does not need a PC/Mac. Every household was getting one because it was the only device that could get them access to the web. The iPad is changing this and as upgrade cycles come up on those home computers, I think you will see a lot of people ditch the PC for the iPad. If you need a laptop and or a PC get one. A lot of people would be much happier with just an iPad.

All I can say is go to your nearest Apple store, pick up and iPad, go into the Calendar app. Yes, the calendar app from the iPhone would have worked fine on the iPad, but the iPad version is 1000 times more useful and WOULD NOT work on an iPhone. Can work and optimized are two different things.