Same here. The local paper used to be a big deal with local color, news and editorial. Now it's a leaflet of its former self.

Also known as the "embrace" phase of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".

This is the phase where the whole opportunity lies before. The beginning of the hunt, when the outcome is uncertain. There is a lot to like about it. It is the most exciting part.

It runs fine. It just doesn't sell. With 200 million tablets moving each year, Intel would like to own more of that space than Windows tablets can give them. It doesn't matter how well they make Windows run on a tablet if people won't buy tablets with Windows on in any significant number.

No, Intel were using Imagination Technologies' (IT) GPUs for their low power chips, and IT was not giving up the hardware specs for open-source drivers that could be used with the Linux kernel that lies under Android. GP is exactly correct. I hear IT is beginning to come to their senses, but this issue is a big part of how we got to where we are today. You are also right that they didn't change fast enough.

ARM processor power has achieved "good enough", so Intel's technology leverage here means nothing.

Try a Nexus 7 2013. It has all the performance and power you need with all day battery life and a glorious high-def display for only $229, or less on sale. This was the target last fall, and Intel doesn't have a chip in this class. Soon maybe, but then they will probably try to tie it to Windows again and fail utterly. This Christmas you need this and QHD to make a splash.

Ah, yes. After 19 years of crawling the Windows tablet is just coming of age.

You arrange small rare earth magnets in a checkerboard pattern. Now your hoverboard wants to tear itself apart, but at least you can get hover with electromagnets in the surface. A low latency link between pressure sensors on the surface and the electromagnet controls does the rest.

Intel can do fine. They make some amazing tablet platforms. They just need to stop deliberately making them incompatible with the sort of software people want to use, defeaturing the platform to prevent competition with their other products, and providing price incentives that encourage a gimped final product. It is not that difficult.

So instead of walking across their own parking lot Google has to bus them in from the surrounding community. This is the solution to the traffic problem?

Back in the Ford administration. Or maybe Nixon.

OK, that's enough nightmare fuel for one day.

Which is run by a former Microsoft executive who was in charge of security. I guess he can gloat about being personally responsible.