We are the other 1%!

Or is it even less?

You consider it cheating and fundamentally unethical as you grew up under the system that defined it that way. As did I, so I tend to only download things which I then find a way to compensate the artist for, i.e. by buying the crappy compressed versions off of iTunes

However, my music buying is a fraction of what it would be if the ridiculous gatekeepers (RIAA) weren't siphoning off virtually all the profit in the old system, with artists then able to sell their stuff at 1/4 or 1/10 the costs and still have a better income than they did that way. If I am unwilling to spend more than $10 per album (still my preferred format over singles), younger people today (who never seen anything but despicable behavior from the labels) certainly aren't, and are bound to come away with the impression that ethics don't apply to record companies. I'd tend to agree with them.

Were they even potential customers in the first place? Has their downloading perhaps not given some small benefit in that they may introduce some music they have downloaded to someone who will pay something, like (or me), even though they themselves never would have?

Bone the bone.

The other aspect is the natural progression of property from one generation to the next. I'd like to live long enough to see my grandkids into their teen years, but I also would like my dying to be at a point where the things (house, money, whatever it may be) I leave to my child come at a point in their life when they can use them, especially given the apparent direction of our country's economy and class system. Not after he's trying to retire and struggling.

While a lot of what you say is true, Apple has not attempted to ban any Moto phones, only the Xoom tablet. Likewise, there are plenty of phones from both Samsung and HTC they have not attempted bans for.

So I don't really buy that they're attempting to eliminate all competition. It certainly does have a limiting effect though, which is not great.

The more credible rumors have the second ipad coming out in October at a separate event from the new phone. But probably with immediate availability, so maybe in time for your wife's birthday anyway.

And yet here you are in this thread.

Tablet sales curve says no, it is not saturated. Ipad growth last quarter dropped to "only" 85% increase year over year, and if you add in Kindle Fire, and everyone else, you have a pretty good market growth curve.

A product that did make people (well men anyway) think their penis was larger would most definitely do well in the market.

Do you think Apple will not release a smaller cheaper tablet shortly? Your point is very valid, but you argue as if Apple will not adapt tactics in any way to the changing market.

Results are also listed in the google suggestions dropdown.

More accurately.

Your points are odd.

Apple's glitzy stores are cash generating machines. Their revenue per employee, per square foot, or almost any metric you care to pick is the envy of retail. They are the opposite of overhead drag.

Free operating system? Who do you think pays the development costs for Android? I don't even understand why you would say this. This is the one point where Google's and Apples costs are probably exactly comparable.

Minimal hardware development costs - they are probably lower, as they have left this to Asus, who probably does not spend as much on it as Apple does for a given design, but they aren't minimal, as Asus expect to profit from the device as well, and that design cost is, so far, spread across a much lower quantity of produced units.

Direct sales - Apple moves a ton of stuff through it online sales as well as its retail stores too.

With the volumes Apple is moving, their margins are absurdly high and there is virtually no chance Google is seeing anything comparable on the Nexus 7. It is far too high quality a device at too low a price for that to be so.

Jackson absolutely loves the original Kong. Studio made known their intentions to do a (re)remake of Kong, with or without him. He basically said, well, better me than anyone else. Tried to stay true to the original (by his own standards, you may disagree).

I like his version.