It sure did die on the vine /wink/ and I'm also a career analyst /wink-wink/.

Yes, better design, of course. Except Motorola Xoom is better than iPad.

In almost every way:

1) Hardware design - much more powerful, and that wide-screen!!! (aargh ugly ipad)
2) Product look - just nice, not as thin as ipad, but really better. Except that SD-card.
3) Software design - I don't know it just seems so much better and flexible than ios or wthever it was. Thanks Google.
4) Customer support design - So much promises about software update in Europe and I'm still calm. Joking here.

So I really don't see the basis for Apple actions. And I'm sure this all could be said about Galaxy Tab 2 too.
Oh, I own Xoom.

Like Linksys evercrashing routers.

wtf? Separate wtf for every paragraph (and even every sentence) you wrote. WTF??? -- your 02c is pretty cheap then

you mean third-world?

Oh, it's not efficient, not by long shot. But it's capable of providing somewhat decent healthcare to those who had nothing previously.

Rationalizing and The Truth are two completely different beasts.

While democracy should trump all, is it wise to hold majority opinion so high that it slows down progress?
I'm pretty sure going the nuclear way is actually not the progress. It was regression 50 years ago, it still is.

new notifications feature??? a blatant ripoff of what has existed on android for some time.

I would prefer strawberry itself. Simple as that.