Oh, and here I thought we were talking about HTML5, WebKit, and open web standards. Fuckin' Apple, ruining it for everyone.

They were announced a year before the iPad, you mean. And they looked like this. By the time they got around to shipping, the iPad had been announced, and the JooJoo had changed to look like this. Kinda like how Android phones were announced before iPhones, but suddenly stopped looking like Blackberries as soon as the iPhone was announced.

But I'll allow that the Crunchpad had a simpler design than other tablets even in its clunky prototype form. But that's also because it wasn't really a tablet - it was a web-based e-reader. It's easier to make a clean design when your gadget has only one function.

Why the dripping sarcasm? This is true. Good industrial design has always been about stripping a thing down to its essentials and making it as simple and focussed to its task as possible. And that does take an utter design genius.

Before the iPad, tablet design was like this and this and this.

The hallmark of good design is that after we see it, it seems "obvious", and design illiterates think there's absolutely nothing special about it. But they can't explain why nobody thought of it before then.

This post explains everything you need to know about why Slashdot simply doesn't get tablet computing, and probably never will.

That's not investing, that's speculating. Odds are that the money you pay for those stocks are not going to the company in question to pay for capital costs or R&D. (Unless you're buying into an IPO or something like that.)

Real investment is if you take that million dollars and use it to bankroll a startup, or finance an existing company's expansion/growth plans in exchange for an ownership stake. Usually that's not done via the stock market. But it's also even harder than playing the stock market, so your main point still stands.

But it's not up to them to skip the things they don't want to do and still call themselves an engineer with a Bachelor's degree.

Education is what is left behind after you've forgotten everything you were taught. If you were only taught "useful" things, you didn't get an education, you learned a trade.

How about some actual prices?

Plants vs Zombies - $20 on website, $10 on Mac app store, $7 iPad, $3 iPhone.

Pixelmator - $60 on website, $30 on Mac app store.

Aperture - $200 in box, $80 on Mac app store.

Autodesk Sketchbook - $80 list, sale price $40 at Amazon, sale price $25 on App Store.

But there are lots other publishers trying to maintain the same pricing as their older sales channels, so the marketplace is still churning on this one. Hard to say how it will ultimately work out, but there's little evidence that prices are feeling an upward pressure.

No need to speculate, the App Store has existed for some time, and there are many 3rd-party applications being sold there.

And the evidence shows that prices tend to drop by 60-70% when they go onto the App Store.

I suppose even a .txt file is unsafe if it includes instructions for sending your credit card info to Russia, which is all that MacDefender really does in the end.

The advantage of Safari's approach is that they don't define "safe". This allows Apple to adjust the safety heuristics from update to update without changing the default security setting.

It's not a zero-sum game. The mobile sector is a growth sector, so Android's growth doesn't have to come out of anyone else's bottom line. And even if it is coming out of someone else's bottom line, it's definitely not Apple's, since the whole point of this article is that Apple is crushing everyone else combined in the profitshare metric, and cannot make their devices fast enough.

But insofar as Android's growth is hurting someone else's bottom line, it's almost certainly Nokia's. They just capitulated and went with WP7, which is a sign of defeat if I ever saw one.

If Android's 33% came at the expense of iOS, you might have a point. But it didn't, so I guess not. The point of the original article is that Apple is making metric fucktons of money from iOS, and their insane growth shows no signs of slowing. Are you disputing this? Or are you proposing a novel definition of "trounced" that involves insane growth rates and billions of dollars in profits? Because I thought that this is what trouncing looks like.