I'm surprised to see no mention of DRM at all, though I'm doubtful that they'll ship these movies DRM-free.

Can't wait to see what sort of lies they try and cover this up with. I also can't wait to see which journalist actually have any integrity left to and decide to show this for what it is and not be influenced by lies or any sort of threat tactics.

No, it's runs on certain iPods up to the Nano 1G (2G is still unstable), but neither the Touch or iPhone can run Rockbox.

Flash is currently the standard for sites streaming porn. So until they switch to HTML5 or the iPad gets Flash there will be no iFapping.

You are correct that freedom is my benchmark. I could live with less powerful and even a bigger price tag for such a device offered what I need.

Touchbook and WePad are the two I'm currently considering.

No, I'm looking for tablet hardware that let me do what I want with it. Hardware that doesn't require me to jailbreak it to install the applications I want. Even if I were a fan of the OS on it I'd still feel the same. Just like if I liked Windows I'd buy a Windows PC but wouldn't touch a computer that only ran Windows and imposed restrictions on me.

You still haven't proven what I said to be wrong. You're moving within the confines of Apple.If Jailbreaking allowed the freedom I'm talking about then we'd have the ability to have Rockbox running on the iPhone and iPad.

I care because these types of devices are Apples attempt to move computing in a direction where they have total control.

You're still bound by Apple's environment. As I said jailbreaking allows freedom but it's still limited. It's like having a laptop where you can't change your OS and in order install more applications you have to hack it.

To me they're better in the sense that from the start I can do what I want with the device I paid for rather than having to jailbreak which itself allows limited freedom. I'd rather not have Apple decide what I can do with my device.

Jailbroken or not, the iPad is still locked into Apple. There are much better alternatives to the iPad which will allow you freedom over your own device.

Apple has already witnessed what happened to Bing. They know there's no success in creating a search engine simply to separate yourself. Sure Apple like to keep things closed but I doubt they'd go as far as trying to keep their users away from Google search.

The decision to drop support for GNU/Linux and instead put more effort towards video support was poorly thought out. Especially when you consider they're keeping OSX support. Drop a platform which favors FLOSS software to support platforms dominated by iTunes and with lots of users who couldn't care less about Songbird as an iTunes alternative. This decision is the start of the end for Songbird.