Haven't you heard? Newtonian physics has been discredited after someone hacked into his quill and pen set.

Maybe the knee jerk slashdot technopessimists will be right this time.

Now if only it would actually play music without skipping, freezing, or using 30+ percent of the CPU. Sheesh!

It does for me.

I like how you dismiss a detailed real world design example based simply on a claimed feature without any further substantiation. Very classy. I'm not saying you are wrong, but would it kill you to go into a little more detail about why these folks need "luck" when they are clearly very successful with their existing design?

AKA: "The more people I meet, the more I like my dog."

Can anyone explain to me why Ford has so many kinds of cars? Tesla has had a 2 seat roadster for years (admittedly, several versions, but never any compatibility issues that I've come across), and Ford has, what, 73 or something?! Is it really that hard to get it right?

I think it is hubris - the idea that "I'm smarter than everyone else in the industry, and I have ideas that none of them do".

Wow. Hubris? Really?

There is a long history of people doing stuff they personally find cool and interesting and succeeding wildly at it. Sure there are also a lot of failures, but you cannot succeed without taking risks, and it is pretty pathetic to see that your lame attitude is so prevalent these days.

This web tablet may fail terribly, or it might succeed wildly, but thank Dog there are still people willing to try.

Years ago I bought a linux server from a company in Edmonton, and they seem to still be around. Their site is woefully out of date though.

http://www.harddata.com/

Hopefully, negative press/reviews/articles like this will encourage people to buy more open platforms

That's the kind of reaction one would hope people would have instead of this pathetic begging for Apple to change their minds. Unfortunately the Apple brand image is so strong right now that, like Microsoft and Sony before them, they are forgiven all sorts of behaviour that other companies would never get away with. Luckily, again like Microsoft and Sony before them, all this anti-consumer behaviour should eventually catch up to them.

Option A) Apple products.
Option B) The freedom to do what you want with the stuff you buy.

Pick one and stop complaining.

I am in favour of completely eliminating ALL taxes on corporations so long as they are NOT considered a "person" under the law. So long as they are, then they should be subject to taxation, just as any other person is.

6a. "Here are a bunch of straw men, watch me knock them down!" - Arthur Grumbine

IMHO, the iPod Touch is a terribly overrated device. It's too small, slow and buggy to be useful for anything more than light use as a web browsing device.

If you like the Movit, you might also consider the AI Touchbook.

Basically, an Ipod touch that has about 4-5x the screen size would be exactly what I (and by extension everyone else) want.

Hell no. I own an iPod Touch 16GB and if this thing were shipped with the iPod's closed, buggy and brain-dead operating system, I'd avoid it like the plague. The only feature I would want to share with the iPod is the multi-touch support.