iOS is nice, but it's getting rather dated. The use of fake leather trim, paper and linen textures make it look rather silly today. Of course, those big jelly bean buttons aren't helping it either.

The developer can choose to use Holo regardless of the skin the OEM has used.

This is why you always code in machine language!

Whenever I hear the words Microsoft and smartphone in a sentence together I'm always reminded of this Internet classic where Ballmer laughs at the iPhone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

Here are some choice quotes from this discombobulated silverback:

"$500 fully subsidized with a plan [while laughing like a wounded hyena] - I said that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine"

"I like our strategy I like it a lot"

"We're selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year Apple is selling zero phones a year"

"In six months [Apple] will have the most expensive phone, by far ever, in the market place and let's see how the competition goes"

6 of the Microsoft patents were thrown out and only 1 was upheld. The more Microsoft patents that can be identified as worthless the better. And the ones that are found to be infringing on their generic and prior art ridden patents they'll just work around it with another implementation of the functionality.

The hunter is now the hunted.

The description of some those Microsoft patents seems to indicate they're quite old. I wonder how many of them will be expiring soon.

Their stock and their products have been stagnant for the past 10 years and I don't see that changing any time soon. It's pathetic that such a large corporation must stoop to this level considering all of the bad PR it brings along with it and the image it tags you with. Perhaps they'll come to the conclusion that they're better than this and focus on technology and innovation instead of using their position to try and crush their opposition in the court room.

But, they're fighting a war they can't win because they'll eventually need to face Google if they continue down this path. Although, I must admit it would be glorious to see Google shred through all of their frivolous and prior art ridden patent portfolio.

Google should make a change to their Android licensing terms. If you want a licence to the Google services or to even use Android commercially you must allow your patent portfolio to be used to defend the Android OS. With other companies in collusion and forming patent pools to attack Android this seems the best solution to smack down these patent trolls.

Well, they make Havoc which is the most popular middleware physics engine in the world and used by a majority of console games.

and their soup is made out of soylent green.

It would be so fitting.

My sentiments exactly. The app selection in the HP marketplace is very slim pickings. Regardless of how good the user experience is the lack of applications just nullifies every argument in favor of the Touchpad. You never really understand how important an ecosystem is until you're dependent on it. Had Android not been ported to the Touchpad I would sold it a long time ago. I'll probably never get rid of the WebOS partition because it's still an interesting OS to use. It was actually a bit of a shock coming from WebOS to CyanogenMod because I was so used to the WebOS gestures - so much so that I even tried to kill an app by flipping it towards the top of the screen. The card metaphor is also quite nice because you know exactly what's running instantly. I hope ICS steals some of the UI and UE features of WebOS because it really was an outstanding UI.

Cyanogen was not responsible for the porting CyanogenMod 7 to the HP Touchpad. The primary developer is Erik Hardesty (dalingrin).

It's an alpha build, but it works extremely well on my 32GB Touchpad. You also get the best of both worlds by being able to boot into either WebOS or Android.