"No. Bad boy/girl!"

Actually, yes.

Over the years, I've bought hundreds of CDs that I've listened to once or twice and then sold to recover a few bucks. (Much of this before I was ripping CD music to my computer.) I now often purge my music collection both of CD media, as well as digital copies.

Now if I buy a song as a digital download, I no longer have that option.

"Also, what the hell are you going to do with a CD once you have it but rip it?"

Sell it used.

Wel, if yer buyin' fancy store-bought likker, mebbe

Seriously.
All of the important advances in Internet technology have been driven in some part by better access to pornography:

"Sir, with the new multi-widgeted-gigaplexing in the new Roto-Router2k, you'll have greater compliance with IETF standards and fewer packet-collision-related neck and back injuries."

"Ummm... I dunno."

"Oh, you'll also be able to anonymously download pr0n 1000x faster and get immediate access to young hotties in your neighborhood who are looking to Hook Up Tonight."

"I'll take it, whatever the cost."
Later that night...
"Honey, I upgraded the Interweb thing so you can watch your cat videos and Ice Dancing on YouTube in Holographic HD..."

I'm really looking forward to going back to having every PC with a globally routable IP address

You really think having every *Windows* machine out there having a globally-routable IP address would be a Good Thing?

While of course it's possible to run a clean Windows box if you have half a brain, millions of people don't. The idea of having them all directly on the Internet scares me.

Thank you.

A proper "English" keyboard? For Japanese text?
Because Japanese input is complex, the predictive input on a Japanese numerical keyboard is quite sophisticated. Typing texts all in romaji is far less efficient, actually.

It's because the Japanese hate your freedom. ;-)

More likely, it's because the West too often fails to design products specifically for Japan, rather than try to retrofit existing products or even worse, merely "market" Western products in Japan.

Japanese companies are designing products for Japanese people who live in Japan.

For example, written Japanese is a lot more "dense" than English. One character can convey a meaning that it would take many letters to express. For that reason, they are not bothered by screens so small as to be considered unusable by most Westerners. The iPhone's bigger screen becomes less important. Japanese input on a Japanese phone has a steeper learning curve, but everyone learned it years ago. The iPhone requires learning a new one, I suspect. (Haven't really tried it.)