This is a bit disappointing to me, or maybe I just don't see the point? I can't forsee the carriers opening up their network infrastructure, getting qualcomm to open up their chipsets, or a move to GSM for these major CDMA carriers any time soon. With these options not possible I don't know what the point of this is (feel free to enlighten me). In the mean time we see damage to the value of the Android platform on the two best networks for Android owners. 1) Sprint has been a major player in the Android ecosystem, one of the early adopters (right alongside T-Mobile) and having rolled out the most cutting edge hardware and largest bevy of phones ahead of the others. They are also the only partner network for Google Wallet in the US. 2) Verizon, while a much more closed network, offers the fastest and most widespread 4G LTE network. Android power users (with a little cash to burn) flock to Android phones on this network for blazing speeds on the go. A frequent techies commuter dream. On the other hand, we have T-Mobile who has been limping along with the (in comparison to the other networks) under powered variant of the GS2 and no plans for the Galaxy Nexus at this time. We also have AT&T who hasn't been doing too badly but does not roll out near as many Android devices as any of the other networks, has been rated worst in customer serivce, tends to focus on their iPhone sales, and has encountered frequent network capacity issues. Just doesn't make sense to me right now.

This is going to be a little bias as I ship a lot of packages but I think to compete with cheap imported goods from other nations we should subsidize package delivery in this country. When I can order something from China for $3 including shipping something is wrong. Shipping costs account for nearly 15% of my costs and in an economy where so many items are ordered online subsidies to shipping companies would benefit us all.

Did you get it off eBay? I've had some really bad parts from no name brands.

iOS most certainly does not ship on more devices. The iPhone is the most popular single device but Android is in use far more overall.

http://mashable.com/2011/09/26/android-sales-2-to-1-iphone/

Best buy was out of stock, they haven't had touchpads for at least 45 days, Hp replenished it from their latest 200k production run and said to hell with their waiting list. The only reason they are doing it through retailers is to save face.

They did not actually, they just wont sell them to you. That is unless you buy an hp computer bundle through best buy. http://www.google.com/m/url?ei=LWqrTvi6CZOMlgfMbA&q=http://www.slashgear.com/best-buy-offers-new-hp-touchpad-bundle-deal-28191812/&ved=0CCMQqQIwAw&usg=AFQjCNEJfEDLbDNEDHTspYRHuXTN1ylM9Q

As expected. It would kill a bit of the excitement if a few hundred thousand phones were running ICS via custom ROMs before the Galaxy Nexus even hit the stores.

Takes about two weeks after either the initial phone release or the update push if I recall correctly from the Nexus S and gingerbread pushes.

Well he saved you from making an error. The AOSP repository had some downtime and that announcement just says that the gingerbread source is available again. The ICS source is Android 4.0

All elements that under the GPL require source code distribution are already available for download.