Great idea for a zombie docudrama, dude!
Orson arises from the grave to strangle George.

I didn't rtfa. so assumed Mr Burns had named a new reactor after one of the townsfolk.

isn't there 'one connector to rule them all' that does usb AND display?
Pdmi i think it's called.

it's more them allowing you to put your crap on their phone.,the one they pay for.

Deep pockets!
I just hope someone continue to make compact devices now SE has eoled my Vivaz. The dimensions of the iPhone and android clones are too big, IMHO - I can't imagine carrying 2 of them in trouser pockets.

you're thinking only in terms of the phone paradigm. Dual phone numbers are only one possibility.

Phones now, or shortly, will have 1Ghz, 1GB and dual core.
Run android as your phone stack but fedora mobile - i.e. Meego when you want to run traditional software by attaching mouse, keyboard, networked fs and hdtv. For a number of scenarios a phone can replace a 'desktop' albeit sans Windows. On one device, simultaneously!

Notwithstanding the N900's Meego-based successor, I wouldn't rule out your 1st idea - a plain phone. Why? I'd see where the iPad sector leads us. Do people need a tablet AND a smartphone?

I'm hoping convertible touchscreen netbooks become the norm - Dell's Inspiron duo looks promising. Choice of OS and multi-purpose. All you need then is the cheapest phone that does data tethering.

If the *toolkit* rather than each app provides remote X11 capabilities through multiple backends then where's the problem? Host a 'legacy' X env on your remote wayland display.
Sure they'll have to shoe-horn a wayland remoting solution longer term but X ought to function similarly to now

Even if documents don't include mathematical equations, there's an obvious plain text solution - latex.
It outputs to pdf and i'm sure there exist browser extensions to render to html on the fly.
Though gmail does pdf-html automatically when viewing attachments

search for 32bit binaries in 64bit linux and you may be able to install compatibility for your distro of choice.

a pity one has to wade through 150 odd posts about the merits of the analogy before reading a single post relevant to the goverment's decision.

I'd moderate the whole thing off-topic but instead perhaps SeñorTaco will create a 'motor cars for nerds' site.

Having a Canadian on the team embraces a certain regional pride to calm insecurities of those Yanks.

cloning cocoa is no different to haiku, mono, classpath, linux, reactos or wine. i.e. foss clean-room implementations give lawyers no ammo.
The spectre of patents is the elephant in the room but Jobs would watch the Larry vs the Android battle before attacking Sony.
The most likely action would be a clause in the iOS developer agreement that you target only Apple devices. Sounds pretty anticompetitive to me but i'm sure Sony would challenge that.

Wiindows?

something like Win7 on Xen?
As for Android, it's just Google's private branch of the Linux kernel. If they upstreamed more of that into the standard tree switching between android and your favourite desktop distro would be trivial. Hardware sensors detect a 'swivel' and hey presto the UI switches to X11.
Google's app store might only currently cater to ARM based phones but as Apple have done with an osx store, there'd be a market for x86 tablet apps too.