are developers really ready to use the on-screen keyboard to do some serious work?"

Speaking for my people, No.

We already did. We held elections in 2009, sick of the existing Labour government that was kissing US arse and instead opted for a Conservative/Liberal coalition that both insists on keeping us in recession and continues to kiss US arse.

Democracy doesn't work when none of the electable parties have your best interests in mind.

Have sales gone up?

If sales have gone up, then congratulations, you've scored a minor victory against those stealing to avoid paying for decent content, but if not, what exactly have you achieved? Sure, people have stopped *cough* "stealing" your content, but they're not buying it either, it simply proves it wasn't worth paying for in the first place.

Either that, or they're still downloading it for free, they just figured out another way to do it without getting caught. Thus continuing the perpetual cycle of cat and mouse between the consumer and the dying business model of the entertainment industry.

Speaking as someone born in the eighties and educated in the nineties and noughties; apparently they did.

Microsoft already had a tablet that would make employees potentially much more productive. It was called Courier, the internet was crying out for them to make it, and they cancelled the whole project.

How does copyrighting a previously public domain item even work? I mean, if someone copyrights, say, a book in the public domain, and I then go ahead and reprint that book, I can state that my copy is a printed version of the public domain version, and any copyright claim should be moot, since they can't prove I used the copyrighted version. Am I missing something?

Madness.