Well actually (unlike Market and Gmail for example) the Contacts and Calender apps are part of the Android Open Source Project, with Google just providing 'Sync Adapters' to sync their data as part of their proprietary 'gapps' package. So this means two things, firstly that these apps will get updates with platform releases (not via Market) - just by the screenshots, they both looker 'nicer' in Honeycomb - and secondly that (as is already done with Contacts in CM) it should presumably be possible for custom ROMs to modify these apps yet still have them be compatible with the Google 'Sync adapters' (of course on the other side of the equation, many apps already provide their own 'Sync adapters', Facebook and Skype being examples).

yes sure a miracle - the chance of more great games/engines being tied to a single vendor's products. Yes OpenGL has issues but if Microsoft really had an interest in having a good cross-platform API, they could surely help move OpenGL forward in appropriate ways rather than putting that effort into developing something else entirely.

Thousands of devices that'll never support the HTML5 video tag anyway (many of which don't have a browser even). I'm sorry but the future of web standards shouldn't be shackled to the demands of (what in my opinion is) a protection racket, just so it's using the same codec as a Blu-ray player.

Well as much as I hate DRM (and think it never achieved it's claimed goal anyway), the main reason I've seen Netflix claim they won't make an Android release in the past is something like a lack of a 'universal DRM solution' across Android devices - well if you look at http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0-highlights.html#multimedia - hopefully this 'Pluggable DRM framework' may be what they're looking for. That said, being in the UK, I can't get Netflix anyway, and I don't expect to see LoveFilm bringing its service to mobile devices any time soon.

It should do in a few months

Probably because Google seem to love HTML5 (look at Wave or their new Android/iPhone web based apps). But certainly they should take the Ogg Theora route, then if it can be pushed back into the HTML5 standard again, we might eventually be able to get Ogg Theora support in IE, and then maybe Ogg Theora and Vorbis support in Windows itself (as MS would probably embed their media player).