you think many everyday people creating a pet the kitty app are gonna sign up as a developer and submit their app to the app store? i doubt that. it would actually be good to have a separate app store for this so people know they are limited apps, but it gets people interested in the process and friends and family can download the app.

And here I thought the great lakes were in Canada as well.

a fortune you say? show me a laptop you can buy with linux installed and ill show you a laptop with windows installed for the same price.

bah, youre all a bunch of crabby old men. almost everyone thats tried this device has fallen in love with it. the resolution is not low. i remember using 800x600 on a 14 inch monitor. this is gonna be very small pixels on this device. also it comes out at the end of july in north america with an android 2.2 update in september. thats less than 2 months to wait, not a big deal. it fits in a pants pocket. they made it as big as they could while still being pocketable. thats the magic size for me. the htc hd2 and evo have 4.3 inch screens, this has a 4.8 inch screen, only 0.5 inches bigger.

an american ignorant of the rest of the world? now thats a first..

and iphones and ipad arent fragmented?
theres 3 differnet hardware versions of the iphone with a 4th coming in a few months. unless you target the lowest common denominator here it might not be fully compatible too. plus the ipad is different again as well.