How does that "improve the industry"?

By sending business back to Blackberry and the various Android-based phones?

It's telling that Spring's press release uses more space extolling the virtues of its product than describing the situation behind the suit. It's also curious that the primary features it hypes "full Internet browsing while reading" and "interactive multi-media open Internet access", while the nook won't even have a Web browser. B&N basically says they might add one later, if the users want it. This is totally a wait and see situation, because right now it's not at all clear who the bad guy is.

Yes, you can enter without breaking. It's called illegal entry. It applies when no breaking is necessary, such as entering an unlocked door or open window.

The odd thing is that everyone assumes the long blood vessels to be fixed-diameter pipes. If the musculature included a kind of esophageal motion that helped to squeeze the blood upward, the heart wouldn't need to do as much work.

Mostly, it's the publishers that control this. Rights are still parceled out on a regional basis and sold separately, even though the model is aged far beyond any practical meaning. World rights cost a lot more than, say, North American rights.

I've been using a Sony Reader for a couple of years (since the PRS-500 came out) and have yet to use Sony's store. Why should I, when places like FictionWise exist?

Well, that'll teach me to rely on memory.

"The romance between Spock and Uhura was completely cliche and unnecessary."

Actually, it's a reference to a very important historical point from TOS. The episode "Plato's Stepchildren" contained the first ever interracial kiss on television, between Spock and Uhura.

You're missing two things. Neither is guaranteed, but both are likely. One is that the economy of scale often kicks in very early on at the prototyping level. The error part of trial-and-error gets spread more thinly. The other is that part of the 1X cost includes R&D. Again, that cost gets spread more thinly at 5X.

If we assume said features would be available on half a dozen different phones from a variety of carriers, then from an OS company's point of view, it's an edge.

Only in appeal.