Actually, it's believed that the G1 and Android actually are capable of multi-touch, and it's demonstrated in the video found here. This site raises the exact same question you did, and my uneducated guess is that this is just a development issue that will be resolved in a future Android update.

I can live without it for now. At my age, I'm lucky I can touch anything with one finger, let along two.

I'm very happy with my G1 and expect interesting things to develop for it over the next year.

I guess that means someone, somewhere is going to try to sue this guy.

...who rides out to the middle of Doak Campbell Stadium in the spotted horse and throws the flaming spear into...

Oh, wait, sorry...that's Chief Osceola.

Like anyone on this site would know anything about college football...

Wait a minute...Dell (and HP, and Lenovo, and Toshiba, ad infinitum) already tell me what software I can run on my new computer. And that's always Windows. I don't even get a choice of which Windows...I must take Vista or nothing. Or if I do convince one of them to give me XP, I must pay more money...or buy a model I might not want.

And my "choices" are limited even more by the fact that I must take when they give me but I cannot take "nothing." I can't ask them to sell me the computer without an operating system, because then they wouldn't be able to "support it." (As though they can support it if it goes tits up and does have Windows installed one it).

So, what's worse? Getting stuck with (and paying for) an operating system I don't want, and not having the choice of which version of the operating system I don't want? Or being unable to have no operating system so I can run the software I want?

Playing what I want on the guitar sounds like a good alternative. And though I think Stallman is a marxist nut, I'll invite him over for free sandwiches. He can even bring a homeless guy.

No, I'm not criticizing Microsoft for patching anything, or not patching anything (hard to say without a double negative). I don't care what Microsoft does.

I use Windows at work. I'm not a sysadmin or network admin (not anymore; I was for 10+ years). I don't work in security (I did, as part of the above). I'm a developer on a very large, distributed and secure network. I don't concern myself with bugs, security, malware, Trojans, etc. etc. because I don't need to. My work is secure and replicated, and if something evil gets on the network and screws up my machine, I can go home early. Tomorrow is another day.

At home, I don't use Windows. At all. Server, desktop, laptop. Not a byte of anything controlled by Microsoft. So, again, their inability to correct their problems before releasing doesn't concern me.

And while I know there are bugs in Linux, fifteen years of experience with it has demonstrated to me that it's a shorter problem, a faster fix, it's out in the open, and there's no one keeping a tally of how long it takes for a bug to get exploited. And none of my boxes have ever been compromised.

And that came out of the middle of my mouth.

Microsoft is now bragging about the fact that they predicted 40% of their bugs would be turned into exploits?
I realize that Windows is a complex hunk of crap...errr...operating system, but wouldn't they be better served trying to find and correct these issues rather then just releasing them into the wild and keeping their fingers crossed?
Their attitude is sort of like pointing the gun at your foot and firing five times, and bragging that you only hit two of your toes.
This is why, every day when I arrive at work, I log into this XP box and ask myself why my organization continues to put up with this garbage.

I'm sure this one feels legitimized. Finally.