On some blog and magazine forums people have been collecting critical reviews to help bolster the argument of the iPad not being good enough for whatever purpose they envisioned their need to be.
I found one particular article disparaging the iPad very interesting and ironic. They referenced an article from either the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, where the reviewer thought that the iPad was useless because the iPad basically turned a computer into a TV device.

I couldn't help but smile at the irony - Wasn't that the holy grail of computing (for end users) - that a computer is as easy to use as a TV (toaster, etc)?
Now that Apple has come pretty close to that goal (ideal?), it gets disparaged?
Luckily the target users see the iPad for what it is, unlike so many holier than thou tech snobs in this forum.

Funny, I have exactly the opposite experience. Verizon has had the worst service I have ever encountered. Can't speak to AT&T overall, but they gave us no gruff at all when we returned phones and canceled service withing their 2 week trial period when we discovered they had really bad coverage in the areas where it mattered most to us ( work, home, and the commute in between).
T-Mobile has had excellent customer service when adding or subtracting services, or when Billing questions arose (once in over 6 years with them now).

His approach just lets him know when someone does really want to read his e-mail.
Also at the point of request, he does have legal options prior to the governmanet reading his e-mails, whereas without the encryption he would have none.

Figures, when I need mod-points I don't have them....

But I give thanks to your post and parent post for saying what you did and saying it well.

But at lest I can comfortably browse on the iphone/ipod touch. I can't say that about the browsing on Android.

Yes, I own both platforms.

The other day someone posted a nice link to Google's facebook analysis, so I tried some of the pages mentioned above.
For example:
http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=drudgereport.com/

Seems that Google has a different opinion on this information.

They would be white, maybe even just brushed aluminum.

It is the abuse of that monopoly position that would be the issue - you know - the one of which MS has been convicted.
Until Google somehow abuses its monopoly position there is no issue.

The Car and Driver test was only meant to address the issue if brakes can overcome the engine in case of a stuck accelerator.

They where not testing for the cause of the accident.

They did a test on 3 separate cars, Toyota Camry, Infiniti G37, and Roush Stage 3 Mustang to see the effective stopping power brakes at 70 mph and 100 mph, and each with no throttle and each with full throttle.
Only the Roush Mustang 3 had any real issue of slowing down with full throttle - but only at 100mph. It did stop eventually, but took 903 feet (vs about 320 feet with no throttle).
In the 100mph full throttle tests, the Camry stopped within 88 feet (vs no throttle), the Infinti within 6 feet (The Infiniti has a system that as soon as brakes get tapped the throttle closes, hence such close numbers)

So yes, for 99% of the cars on road, your brakes will overcome your engine easily.

The same way Microsoft figures your copy of Windows (WGA) or Office (OGA) will suddenly become illegitimate.

You are right, it was just a supposition, however it still is not implausible.
Sure LG dwarfs Apple in the categories you mention, however I also know LG makes a heck of a lot more products than phones, so those statements are like comparing oranges to cumquats.

The iPhone and the Prada being announced within one month of each other these two products certainly makes my supposition possible, particularly taken into account your assertion of LG's capabilities. LG being a supplier to Apple certainly does not distract from that either.
As to Apple's internal surveillance... nothing is ever secure from determined enough people.

Another point of the timing - the Prada certainly looks like it could have been from an early stage of the iphone design development; it looks like it is from the design phase when there still where too many buttons....

It is just fun speculation. Certainly while the Prada looks like an iPhone ( or vice versa if you prefer) it certainly looks like it still has too many roots in the win mobile / Blackberry camps with all those buttons.

Wouldn't it be just as plausible that after Apple put in the 2 years of development that it was LG that was the industrial spy and just cranked up their impressive capability to beat the iPhone to market?
In any case, the picture on the Wikipedia page owes just as much to any of the windows CE devices and Palms on the market as the iPhone owes that Prada.

As someone having come across a recent incident where a manager was ready to fire a worker because of the insistence that the raw data clearly showed wrong doing.
Logs "clearly" showed that the worker was visiting porn sites. A consultant versed in the information the logs presented was after a protracted process still only barely able to convince the manager that a person could not have generated the traffic manually.

So, the release of raw data to anyone and everyone is a scary proposition. Anyone coming up with the real meaning of the data would be so drowned out for so long that much harm would be caused by all the uneducated or crackpot interpretations.

So yes, it does take education to properly make sense of data.