If it's a business, it's on my shitlist.

You were wrong.

Your requiring the world to change to suit you.

Wow... where I lived (Phoenix & Las Vegas) it was ~30/month.
Where I am now (Dallas) it's 10/month.

Don't believe that crap Obama feeds you!
Those democrats want that air for themselves!

hint: if mom/dad do emails, buy a ~$40 bluetooth keyboard.
It's by far not a poor replacement, unless their vision is so poor that the screen size is an issue when it's a foot or so away from their face.
The only time it'd ever be an issue is when they'd want to watch adobe flash on the net.

That's like a person going from a horse & carriage to a car trying to find a place to tie the carriage to the back of the car.

He did. More than one is better than one.
Keep your mom away from iPads. If she's menopausal, you don't want to give her weapons that will actually do damage to you judging by your attitude.

I feel sorry for any future female in your life...

Intelligent conversation has to happen SOMEWHERE...

NPR, avoid the people that are ready to take the front half of your car with them...

If you own a toyota and ford still sells cars, is the toyota owner unhappy?

It also weighs about as much as a 90% sized keyboard. :-(
You're right though, the keyboard is a pretty good size.

Probably because USB is slow.
USB 2.0 is 280 Mbit/s (35 MB/s)

USB 3.0 might be an alternative in the future, but it's fairly new. Then again, the USB 2.0 subsystem is used on iPhone 5, so the actual interface layer is lightning in order to allow it to be smaller.

or use the built-in airplay mirroring features of the OS :)
iOS 6: double-click home button, swipe left, and select display