Because Jony Ive makes a super spanky tablet and all the developer love is initially born in iOS. I hate the walled garden and jailbroke because of it, but Holy
Chocolate Buddha if it isn't the best build quality of all the tablets right now.

If Google finally did something with the red headed Moto stepchild and brought out a RAZR inspired tablet with substantial battery life? I might be there when it happens in a few years. (Why they drag their feet here, I have no clue.)

So in short, it's the sexiest tablet going atm. That'll change, (and that time is close).

Ah. I see what happens to all the projects now. Out comes the hammer...

http://hacknikefuelband.com/news.html

Open Source BT Pedometer project to start soon.

And Nike? Could you please cough up a turd and die?

Grazie...

http://www.thoughtgadgets.com/2012/08/game-over-nike-sensors-may-soon.html

Yep. Even worse than I thought...

Too bad Stallman isn't a runner.

Ugh. Now I remember why I hate Nike. Still no joy in finding out how to get the Nike+ sensor to work with the iPad. I may have to roll my own. (Not to mention I will go back to never buying anything Nike. Still deciding if I should open the sensor up or just fucking smash it with a hammer while I piss on a Nike Swoosh...)

Yes, I was dumb enough to think the sensor would with the iPad before fully researching.

If the Evad3rs uncovered the weather app with a simple plist entry, the same may be true for Nike+iPod integration for the iPad.

Looking...

How dare you offer sensible compromise, Sir! (I'd mod you up if I could)

Personally, I jailbroke once and was unimpressed, so updated to iOS 6. Quite happy there until I bought a Nike+ dongle for my shoe and then found out I couldn't use it on the iPad. Stupid little edge case denials like that have brought me back to jailbreaking just so I have more control to do what I want to do.

Oh running apps, why do you hate us treadmill desk owners with iPads?

Researching the Nike+ on iPad issue as we speak now that I have control of the iPad back...

This happened when I was in the military in Germany in the early 90's. Just about to leave for the US and I got a speeding ticket in my mailbox for my 67 VW Beetle. Thing is, that Beetle never even made it onto the autobahn or any other street since I had the engine out of it the whole time and didn't finish the project before I had to leave country. I also wasn't allowed to leave until the false ticket was paid. Back then, if you contested the ticket, you had to write in to get access to the photos. I didn't have enough time left in country for that, so I had to pay the ticket or get an Article 15 (which is like a speeding ticket for your life in the military). I had thought, and still think, that it was a scam played on GI's about to leave the country. I'll have to dig that ticket out and finally request the photos from that bit of glory...

I smell Apple autocorrection. The new plague is here. Thanks, Corpse Steve!

Same as it ever was...

Exactly.

Perhaps small ideas that grow big will just have to rely on luck to get there.

They'll find a way to sue your dreams, have no fear.

Sad, ain't it? Only the diehards, the crusty, and the bored 12 year old are left here.

My hairy, crispy Buddha I love you for this small post!

Come to think of it, this will be good for the current rut that OSS is in right now. RMS being proven true, despite his cranky rabid nature.

The dude who spent 3 decades of his lifeblood in speech recognition, only to be harpooned from the entire industry, may turn back and dump his ideas as OSS, and should. Yes, I know the walled gardens revolution right now makes that hard...

So, if you get patented out, go guerrilla. You will have no choice but to set your info free. Most likely be labelled a terrorist too, but the tech will be let free to spite the Nuances of the world. Drive your stuff into the developing markets if you get sued out of making money from your efforts. The other guy has stopped your cash flow options, so put a serious damper into his if you can. (We just have to find a better method of packaging OSS is all, to get it to the flock.) So there is something for Adam Smith to chew on in his grave. Creative destruction of the information wants to be free, type.

So patent madness may drive everything into OSS after all. The burned, broken, and brilliant will have no other recourse in the patent apocalypse unless they have an army of lawyers. Sad and interesting days, just like they ever were.

Looks like the only thing that will come close to fixing it will be from having gone over the buggering edge of ridiculousness.

http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/156824/Patent/First+To+Invent+First+To+File+Or+First+To+Disclose+Patent+Reforms+Real+Incentive

First to file will bring on the Patent Armageddon, most likely. That change is such a BLATANT swing to the rich I still have a hard time fathoming how the decision was even made. "Hmmmmmm, how can we make sure that no one has a business outside of serving my elite buddy Chad some low wage service commodity? Oh, I know! Let's tip the scales completely towards the armies of lawyers who sit around all day spamming the patent office."

Hate to mention the movie Brazil again, but Gilliam had prophecy there...