Let me know when MRAM gets to gigabyte sizes. With unlimited writes and running at SRAM speeds, it could be the future.

And I switched to the open-source MediaPortal for Windows and haven't looked back since.

Slap it on an old XP machine in a decent media center ATX case, and you have a great media pc. No hassles with linux makes, XP media center BS, or compatibility. Throw in a blowout on an Logitech media center remote package with the Setpoint Uberoptions driver to open up all the button options, and you are set. Just share all your media folders on your home network for any other media you want to show.

Which Android Apps are you talking about? The Marketplace Apps? The web browser/GMail apps? The YouTube app?

First, Google doesn't take a cut off of the Android Marketplace apps, and they are all actually free right now. Second, the only real ad revenue they are seeing is from people getting on the browser and using the google search engine (given that there is a google search widget on part of the screen, although it is easily removed).

The only real thing the G1 is doing for Google is brand awareness, getting more GMail accounts, and putting a web browser in more peoples' hands (which assumabley they will use google.com to search with and click on ads).

Again, there is no direct revenue for Google here, they are aiming for the horizon and trying to change the game with this device. It is this humble observer's opinion that they are well on their way.